Error in init file server data! File server disabled!

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Hello,

We have an issue with my Mobotix model Mx-v71A-8DN050.

After I configure it, it gives me an error in the File Server / Flash Device:

  • Error in init file server data! File server disabled!

Can you tell me what that means and how I can troubleshoot?

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Also, I have tested the storage configuration, and it is working fine.

Please see the screenshot.

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This is my first post in the community, so ..
I had the same problem last week with some of identical configured M73/S74 cameras, but not with all of them. The log file log.txt on the server shows:

2025-04-11 18:18:21 mx10-32-27-200 ‘/.erdinfo’ not found
2025-04-11 18:18:21 mx10-32-27-200 force scanning file system …
2025-04-11 18:18:21 mx10-32-27-200 Value too large for defined data type get filesystem statistics in basepath!
2025-04-11 18:18:21 mx10-32-27-200 init failed with initialize failed!

Test of the file server in the camera said, that “File Server is usable”. Nevertheless, test of the storage server from within the camera shows, that the camera could not get size/free GB data from the file server. So the file server disabled.

First I thought, it would be a camera problem, but instead, it shows to be a server problem.
Our server is currently debian bookwarm with latest patches from Monday last week.

I managed to fix the problem with 2 tasks:

  • debian releases a new kernel module at the end of the week (?!), where ZFS had to be compiled anew. (ZFS is our main storage system.)
  • Hints from Mobotix during configuring of the server, tells us, that the NFS storage system had to be exported with no_root_squash. But for some reason, no_subtree_check has to be added too. Rem: Within the NFS directory, each camera creates his own folder, whith the events will be recorded in subfolder of these.
    I don’t know, if only one of the changes would have been sufficient, and I have to check the other comeras too.
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