Drives not importing?

[Hunterr]

Background: I have no experience with FreeNAS but I have a decent amount of IT & Linux experience.

My issue: I have one 3TB HDD and one 4TB HDD in NFTS (from Windows) and I want to import those drives to another 8TB disk in ZFS. I go through the wizard, select my 4TB disk, select NFTS, then select my 8TB drive and I get a seemingly infinite loading bar. If I'm not mistaken, importing should only take a few seconds as it's mounting the drives.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Spearfoot]

Background: I have no experience with FreeNAS but I have a decent amount of IT & Linux experience.

My issue: I have one 3TB HDD and one 4TB HDD in NFTS (from Windows) and I want to import those drives to another 8TB disk in ZFS. I go through the wizard, select my 4TB disk, select NFTS, then select my 8TB drive and I get a seemingly infinite loading bar. If I'm not mistaken, importing should only take a few seconds as it's mounting the drives.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, and welcome to the forums!

To get started, please post your full system specifications, per the Forum rules. This will help us give you better advice.

My first impression is that you're planning on configuring the 8TB drive as a pool? If so, note that single-disk pools aren't redundant and for that reason we recommend that you not do this -- it puts your data at risk. If you lose the one disk, you lose all of the data stored on it. So... consider getting another 8TB drive and creating a mirrored pool using the two 8TB disks.

Before you try to import data from your NTFS drives, you need to create your pool with the 8TB drive (or drives, if you follow my advice and get another one). Then configure a dataset (or datasets) on the pool to serve as the destination where you will import the data from your NTFS drives.

Here's some reading material to help you get up-to-speed on FreeNAS and the ZFS file system:

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/zfs-primer.38927/
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...ning-vdev-zpool-zil-and-l2arc-for-noobs.7775/
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/comprehensive-diagram-of-the-zfs-structure.38865/
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hardware-recommendations-read-this-first.23069/

Good luck!

 

[danb35]

If I'm not mistaken, importing should only take a few seconds as it's mounting the drives.

No, the process of importing copies all the data from the disk you're importing--it isn't simply a mount. See the manual for more detail.