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Originally Posted by rpmurray
I was just knocked off my Dell 705N (SNAP 4100). When I checked the front panel, the system LED was blinking rapidly (not the normal heartbeat blinks) but the other LEDS seemed to be OK. None of the drive LEDs was blinking, amber or green, so it doesn't look like a hard drive failure. I powered it down.
Anyone with any ideas as to what might have happened? Is it safe to turn it back on?
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This is just one of the problems with SnapOS... The filesystem code is rudimentary and is prone to any number of foibles. I have stopped trying to use these units for anything other than scratch space or online backups. They are just too prone to problems when you try to save and then delete a lot of files in a short period. They, also, have maddening periods of a few seconds when they seem to stop working. I think that this is a buffering issue with the filesystem as well. All my online systems are now Guardian units or FreeNAS.
It should be safe to turn back on. If there is something wrong, it will try to recover. If it fails, there was likely little enough to be done anyway. (Aside from getting another unit and migrating drives).