LSFS volume grew, filled hdd, now datastore EMPTY??

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Francesco
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Mon Jun 22, 2015 12:56 pm

Jhon_Smith wrote:Speaking about V6, you are free to use functionality of V6 in V8.
V6 did not have LSFS and L2 cache, thus simply using thick .img files with L1 cache will provide you with V6.

Guys who lost data using LSFS, i am really sorry for you, but next time i would suggest you reading LSFS specs and configuring your system according to StarWind best practices, as well as checking for new StarWind releases. If you have done all that, you would not loose a single byte of data.

As far as it was in my case, yes, they had a moment when LSFS was growing without any control. And after that was noticed, StarWind released a fix for that in 1 week. Which was fast enough in my case.
Without thin Provisioning, makes the software almost useless.

One week if you reported it on February 19th because a supposed fix was released the 26th. Mean while, if you look back to threads from last year, you will see the problem has been reported since at least July 2014.
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Jhon_Smith
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Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:57 am

I am not this long with StarWind, but i can say that right now it works as expected.
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Oles (staff)
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Mon Jul 06, 2015 3:34 pm

Please let me know if you have any questions left. Thank you.
kkuszek
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Wed Jul 08, 2015 9:01 pm

Sure,
it's been a month.
How is that recovery application looking for those with lost data?
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Oles (staff)
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Mon Jul 20, 2015 6:48 pm

Hello!
Our R&D guys were working on eliminating the issue and we can be sure that it is solved now in our latest builds. Thus, there is no need for the utility any more.
lucki
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Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:04 pm

any update on this?
i am in a similar state and the cluster shared volume disappeared
kkuszek
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Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:06 pm

Oles(staff) wrote:Hello!
Our R&D guys were working on eliminating the issue and we can be sure that it is solved now in our latest builds. Thus, there is no need for the utility any more.
Is that standard Starwind support policy, fix the issue for future builds, sorry if you were already impacted?
Francesco
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Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:29 pm

kkuszek wrote:
Oles(staff) wrote:Hello!
Our R&D guys were working on eliminating the issue and we can be sure that it is solved now in our latest builds. Thus, there is no need for the utility any more.
Is that standard Starwind support policy, fix the issue for future builds, sorry if you were already impacted?
Yes, that is pretty much it...
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darklight
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Thu Jul 23, 2015 8:39 am

I've managed to successfully recover my data from LSFS volume using a common recovery procedure like making a copy of LSFS device and mounting it as standalone one in StarWind. Then just connect it to Windows machine and use a data recovery tool on it. Since my LSFS partition was an NTFS one it did succeed.

Give it a try! :roll:
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Oles (staff)
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Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:49 pm

Hello!

I would like to say sorry to all who lost their data, i understand your situation.
If you are still experiencing issues with LSFS, please update to our latest build which can be always found here:
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/customer-page

Update guidance for that can be always found here:
https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... d-version/

We had issues with LSFS device in the past, although now it is a stable device which is working as should. More information about it can be found here:
https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... scription/
and here:
https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... -lsfs-faq/

I would like to apologies in front of all people who lost data using LSFS device once again. Please follow our recommendations to keep your data always safe here:
https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... ckup-rule/

Thank you very much for your understanding.
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