Hello,
Most of my zfs management experience comes from managing solaris zfs pools and datasets via the command line. I went with freeNAS for my
home media storage NAS's and they've been working well for over four years now. I learned the hard way early that managing zfs sotrage pools using CLI commands isn't a very good idea with freeNAS, and reluctantly learned how to manage most tasks using the GUI.
Currently my network has two freeNAS servers one with freeNAS 11.1-release and the other running freeNAS 11.2-U5. I've purchased six 6TB disks to upgrade one of the two six raidz-2 vdevs in the freeNAS 11.1 data pool, and have found in the freeNAS manual the process of doing this in the GUI, basically following the procedure to replace a failed disk on the healthy disks in the vdev one at a time, until they are all replaced. Seems straight forward enough.
One of the first things I wanted to verify was if the autoexpand zpool property was enabled on the datapool, but couldn't find how to do this in the gui for either server. I thought it might be in the zpool options section but even in the advanced options view only a small subset of zpool properties are displayed, and autoexpand isn't one of them.
Running "zpool get all poolname" in a terminal on the server verified that autoexpand is enabled for the datapool, however, I'm still wondering if the zpool properties not displayed in the zpool advanced options menu, like autoexpand can be viewed and modified in the GUI. My early trials and errors in managing freeNAS left me with the feeling that doing any zfs pool or file-system administration in the CLI isn't really a good idea, so hopefully there's a way to modify all pool properties in the GUI.
Any information on managing zfs datapool properties, like autoexpand in the GUI is appreciated.
Thanks,
John
Most of my zfs management experience comes from managing solaris zfs pools and datasets via the command line. I went with freeNAS for my
home media storage NAS's and they've been working well for over four years now. I learned the hard way early that managing zfs sotrage pools using CLI commands isn't a very good idea with freeNAS, and reluctantly learned how to manage most tasks using the GUI.
Currently my network has two freeNAS servers one with freeNAS 11.1-release and the other running freeNAS 11.2-U5. I've purchased six 6TB disks to upgrade one of the two six raidz-2 vdevs in the freeNAS 11.1 data pool, and have found in the freeNAS manual the process of doing this in the GUI, basically following the procedure to replace a failed disk on the healthy disks in the vdev one at a time, until they are all replaced. Seems straight forward enough.
One of the first things I wanted to verify was if the autoexpand zpool property was enabled on the datapool, but couldn't find how to do this in the gui for either server. I thought it might be in the zpool options section but even in the advanced options view only a small subset of zpool properties are displayed, and autoexpand isn't one of them.
Running "zpool get all poolname" in a terminal on the server verified that autoexpand is enabled for the datapool, however, I'm still wondering if the zpool properties not displayed in the zpool advanced options menu, like autoexpand can be viewed and modified in the GUI. My early trials and errors in managing freeNAS left me with the feeling that doing any zfs pool or file-system administration in the CLI isn't really a good idea, so hopefully there's a way to modify all pool properties in the GUI.
Any information on managing zfs datapool properties, like autoexpand in the GUI is appreciated.
Thanks,
John
