zombieapocalypse42
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Hello all,
I have several questions regarding FreeNAS. Currently I have FreeNAS 8.0.3 (64bit) running on a HP N40L Microserver with 8GB of RAM and a Intel EXPI9301CTBLK NIC. Currently I'm testing it with 3 2TB WD drives (one EARX and two EARS without the jumpers). The biggest issue I have is trying to figure out what the "proper" method is for replacing a disk.
Originally I had two WD drives and one Hitatchi drive installed to discover the Hitatchi drive is not advance format so I wanted to remove that. I figured simple enough. Remove the drive and replace it according to the 8.0.3 user guide. What happened was not a simple experience and ended with results I can't explain. So the steps in the user guide are either not correct or for some reason did not work for me. Somehow in the process the installation on the USB disk got hosed. Anyhow after all was said and done I managed to get the disk "replaced" but somehow I ended up with ZFS datasets that did not match the space. So for instance I had:
/mnt/tank-Size 2.1TB (Was 3.6 before the replacement attempt. I have no idea why or how it magically shrunk. I'm guessing something with the replacing of the disk didn't work correctly. Although the resilvering and such reported no issues.)
/mnt/tank/Movies - size 3.3TB (How is the dataset somehow magically bigger than the pool?)
I'm glad I tested this before I had completely switched over from Windows Home Server v1 so no data was lost. Just some time. I've tried some other options like Nexenta and Openfiler but neither really worked well and I like FreeNAS. I just need to better understand. I'm OK with a "process" so long as I know what it is.
So some other questions:
-When replacing a disk do you have to preformat it to ZFS to get a certain layout such as 4K sectors or swap space? Maybe that was the issue before I just added it to the pool but didn't format it similar to the other disks (FreeNAS formatted the entire drive as ZFS without any swap. If someone could tell me how to properly align all the partitions that would be appreciated.)
-Any idea on how long a "long" SMART test takes on a 2TB drive? Recommended frequency for running one?
I hope that all makes sense and someone can help out. I'd just prefer to have everything ironed out before I transfer all the data to the box. However, regardless there will be backups :)
I have several questions regarding FreeNAS. Currently I have FreeNAS 8.0.3 (64bit) running on a HP N40L Microserver with 8GB of RAM and a Intel EXPI9301CTBLK NIC. Currently I'm testing it with 3 2TB WD drives (one EARX and two EARS without the jumpers). The biggest issue I have is trying to figure out what the "proper" method is for replacing a disk.
Originally I had two WD drives and one Hitatchi drive installed to discover the Hitatchi drive is not advance format so I wanted to remove that. I figured simple enough. Remove the drive and replace it according to the 8.0.3 user guide. What happened was not a simple experience and ended with results I can't explain. So the steps in the user guide are either not correct or for some reason did not work for me. Somehow in the process the installation on the USB disk got hosed. Anyhow after all was said and done I managed to get the disk "replaced" but somehow I ended up with ZFS datasets that did not match the space. So for instance I had:
/mnt/tank-Size 2.1TB (Was 3.6 before the replacement attempt. I have no idea why or how it magically shrunk. I'm guessing something with the replacing of the disk didn't work correctly. Although the resilvering and such reported no issues.)
/mnt/tank/Movies - size 3.3TB (How is the dataset somehow magically bigger than the pool?)
I'm glad I tested this before I had completely switched over from Windows Home Server v1 so no data was lost. Just some time. I've tried some other options like Nexenta and Openfiler but neither really worked well and I like FreeNAS. I just need to better understand. I'm OK with a "process" so long as I know what it is.
So some other questions:
-When replacing a disk do you have to preformat it to ZFS to get a certain layout such as 4K sectors or swap space? Maybe that was the issue before I just added it to the pool but didn't format it similar to the other disks (FreeNAS formatted the entire drive as ZFS without any swap. If someone could tell me how to properly align all the partitions that would be appreciated.)
-Any idea on how long a "long" SMART test takes on a 2TB drive? Recommended frequency for running one?
I hope that all makes sense and someone can help out. I'd just prefer to have everything ironed out before I transfer all the data to the box. However, regardless there will be backups :)