If you've not already seen it, RAIDZ expansion is happening. The OpenZFS project tweeted this earlier today. https://twitter.com/OpenZFS/status/921042446275944448 So what does this mean and why you should be excited? Well, lets say you have a RAIDZ pool and you want to add more drives, well...

Hi We are thinking about buying a Dell R320 rack server to be our new FreeNAS server. We will want to use ZFS with no intervention from a hardware RAID controller. The server we are looking at, comes with a H310 mini controller which as standard is a hardware based controller which would cause...

I know it sounds silly, I might have already the answer, but need to have some knowledgeable person telling me to confirm ;-) Thanks a lot for all your help ;-) Dirk

I am in the process of upgrading (from 8.3.1 to 11U4) and rebuilding my FreeNAS (New CPU/MB/LSI LBA and SSD boot device). I installed FreeNAS v11-U3 to an SSD drive, then later upgraded to U4, played around with the GUI and networking configuration. I then attached my pools, and did some more...

Hi all, Came home from work to find my FN Corral install wasn't working. After a little investigation I found that my ZFS pool was DEGRADED. I might add I was running boot USBs in Mirror and the system was providing the following errors: Despite the mirror regardless of which USB was in the...

Hi, i have a HP ML10v2 with the following specs: Intel Xeon E3 1230v3 16GB Kingston ECC Onboard sata controller in AHCI 2x2TB WD RE4 8GB Kingston USB2.0 (FreeNAS) i installed FreeNAS 11 on the server (after applying the latest SPP for the server) and set up both 2TB drives in a mirror. i...

I have six disk system, with two each of 2TB, 3TB and 4TB drives. Freenas is complaining of bad sectors. Should I replace the drive? I have another 4TB drive to put in it but then the mirror "balance' is out. Also, all the drive replacement docs I found seem to be for a degraded pool, which...

I have a Raidz1 volume on my main Freenas server. That volume is replicated another freenas server to a Single large drive. Oviously the Raidz1 volume is protected againced bit rot but what type of protection (if any) is on that single drive? I am just wondering if somehow the replication...

tldr; Is ZFS suitable for single disk use, or does ZFS make total data loss more likely than file systems like NTFS/FAT? Why I'm asking/what I am trying to achive/understand. I need some major space for nightly backup images. I plan on setting up 2 separate 1 drive pools (BPOOL1/BPOOL2) and...

I've had FreeNAS running several days and it's performing very well I have noticed that the last disk in the RAID-Z3 array seems to get almost no utilization. I assume this is normal? I've attached a screenshot from when a scrub was underway, showing the other disks averaging 66...

Hello, I am a bit lost on whats wrong with my pool (mirror) consisting of two 250GB SSDs with replication on. This pool started as a single disk 120GB SSD for testing purposes and I added a 250GB disk to make it a mirror with the help of this post by Duran, checked that autoexpand=on and...

I tried changing a drive, but when i unplugged it, the sata ports changed i think? what was ada3 before became ada4 and ada4 became ada5. Now my volume is unavailable because 3 of the disks have the status removed, even if all the original disks of the volume are connected.

Hello All, My ada5 disk keeps falling off of my pool. This is the third time. I get the following error on the GUI when it happens: CRITICAL: Aug. 7, 2017, 10:55 p.m. - The volume tank state is DEGRADED: One or more devices has been removed by the administrator. Sufficient replicas exist for...

Hi All, I have a system running that is exporting the pool/datasets using NFS to some ESXi server, sinds about 3 weeks my pool has lost all possible perfomance, an i would like to know why, i have been looking at all the numbers of my system but am unable to point to the real reason in this...

Hallo allemaal, Ik ben opzoek naar een IBM M1015 controller. Deze kan ik via eBay bestellen voor 50 tot 60 euro incl. verzendkosten, maar dan komt dat uit China en duurt het veel te lang voordat ik hem thuis heb. Reden waarom ik deze controller wil hebben: Ik heb een Dell R710 V1 met 6 x 8TB...

This is going to be a bit of a longer story so please bear with me. At work, I am in need to setup a server at an ISP which I need to certify according to ISO 27001 so one of my problems is that when one of the HDs fails it will get replaced by the ISP and I was looking to use encryption to...

I would like to know if FreeNAS 11+ would benefit from any hardware crypto, such as AES-NI, that may—or may not—be provided by the newish AMD Opteron X3000 processor family: X3126, X3418, or X3421 that come in the new HPE/HP MicroServer Gen10. I could not find anything on the web that lists...

I have replaced ten of the fourteen 4tb drives in my array with 8tb drives. My server always seems stable and fast to me, but I notice that I am considerably out of step with the 1 GB per 1 TB guideline. The problem is that my motherboard is maxed out at 32GB of RAM. Should I complete my...

I'm coming from a much older installation and I understand that the latest versions of FreeNAS no longer support UFS... but do these latest versions of FreeNAS support any other filesystems besides ZFS? (ext3/4? FAT?) By "support", I mean mount and read/write. One of the drives used in my...

We have had several threads opened concerning which file system is best for a NAS. This thread is intended to discuss what features are available in each file system, and what use they are in a NAS or server. For example, many file systems are limited to one specific brand of OS. Like NTFS is...

Hi! So I just reinstalled my server from corral to FreeNAS 11, and now I have some issues with importing my datasets. To begin with: I have one dataset which was created on a 9.3 (i think) installation, and imported it to corral, without problems. So while running corral for some months I...

In preparation while waiting for my ML10 to arrive in the mail, I started to think about my NAS storage configuration. By pulling drives out of my old external RAID backup and a quick trip to the store, I will have 2 x 3TB WD Red's and 2 x 2TB WD Red's. This will be my first ZFS build and my...

Background: Upgraded system to Corral, upgraded encrypted volume, worked fine for a few weeks. Boot drive failed, waited a long time, replaced boot drive and installed FreeNAS 11. Now I am attempting to re-import my encrypted ZFS pool. When attempting to re-import the volume, I use the .key...

We recently had our second of two 2014-era FreeNAS Minis experience a motherboard failure. Luckily I had a spare on hand (I bought a new one when my first original one failed, and had the original failed one repaired by iXsystems) so we moved that one into service while our failed unit is being...

Hi, ich habe meinem Pool eine L2ARC SSD spendiert, allerdings ist mir aufgefallen das nach einem Neustart der Pool anschließend automatisch entschlüsselt ist. Dem war vorher (ohne L2ARC) nicht so, kann man L2ARC beim Neustart löschen lassen bzw. bin ich überhaupt richtig in der Annahme das es...

Hello ! So, a few days ago (let's not talk about the numerous months I was shamefully ignoring the errors) I saw that one of my 3 main drives stopped working completely. By that I mean there's not a single write/read on it for a long time and the volume says it's `unavailable`. Hopefully, it's...

Now that iocage is functional in FreeNAS 11-RC4 I have created a few jails to play with. Today I decided to test out the Crashplan iocage plugin. No problem getting the Crashplan jail plugin up and running. This brings me to the real question: How do I mount FreeNAS host datasets inside the...

Hi folks, this post is more like "I am thinking out loud" and wanting to hear your professional opinion and looking for some guidance. This is what I am having and doing: FreeNAS-9.10.2-U4, with one vdev of 8x4TB in RAID-Z2 (my "tank"). In addition, I have 2x4TB in mirror, called backup. I...

Hi! Currently my NAS, build from scratch and based on an Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS, has a ZFS pool with 4 x 4TB disks. After installing FreeNAS, does this ZFS pool will be recognized or I will need to backup, create another ZFS under FreeNAS and rebuild the pool? Thanks. Regards.

I've just started to experiment with iSCSI and am looking at creating one or more iSCSI-only pools, each with a single ZVOL device extent. After reading these forums, I have some admittedly noob-ish questions: 1) With regards to the "50% rule" is it okay to create a single ZVOL that uses the...

Hi all ! Fist post on this forum. hope this is in the right section. I'm an ubuntu user trying to set up my first ZFS cross drive partition. I can't quite figure it out. in fact the end goal is to boot my emulated hardware pass-through windows on this partition...

Please tell me how you can install the docker in the yail (freeNAS 9,10). I have a lot of containers that need to be placed in this jail. I made a jail. I'm root. I enter the following commands: # pkg install docker-freebsd ca_root_nss # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/local/dockerfs bs=1024K...

Здравствуйте! Я использую Freenas 9.10. Поднял на нем jail, в котором необходимо установить докер (есть несколько контейнеров и переносить сервисы работающие в этихконтейнерах - не вариант). Для корректной работы работы докера требуется создать zfs раздел, который я делаю с помощью zpool. Что я...

Hi, Kan iemand mij vertellen hoe het CLI command: zfs rename precies werkt m.b.t. de bestanden in de dataset? Kan rename gebruikt worden om elke dataset te verhangen in de zpool en zo ja, is het ook mogelijk om een dataset op deze wijze te verhangen naar een andere zpool?

Hi, Can anyone tell me what the cli command zfs destroy, actually destroys ? I have a couple of zfs objects (don't know what they are), remaining from an old Coral install, that I'm tempted to remove. NAS/.vm_cache 45.7M 8.77T 176K /mnt/NAS/.vm_cache NAS/.vm_cache/boot2docker 45.5M...

Hi people. I already read a lot of posts in FreeNAS forums in more than 3 or 4 years that I'm here, I've already read a lot of documentation of ZFS, FreeNAS, Storages, but I never close my mainly doubt about what is a best way to build a private cloud environment using FreeNas(ZFS) and Windows...

Good evening, I try to setup a test backup storage with FreeNAS. If FreeNAS is going to work fine, I would like to buy certified hardware. But unfortunately I got stuck in deduplication. Either I configured something wrong or the ZFS deduplication feature is N O T on block level. Please Look...

Hi Guys - Long time lurker, first time poster. Anyways looking to upgrade my NAS setup and figured I would go with ZFS and FreeNAS. Been using a Synology 1812+ for the past 5 years. Hardware RAID5/6 on Areca Controller and CentOS before that. This time I want to go with ZFS for its increased...

Hello! I plan to move from FreeBSD 10.3 to FreeNAS 9.10. How can I use, import my "old" ZFS pool? (with geli) Cheers!

i want to build a FreeNAS to work with the new MacBook Pro. I want to do editing directly from the NAS and I want fast speeds. I know that there is support for the MacBook Pro thunderbolt3 to 10gbe adapter to a 10gbe equipped nas, but I rather not do it this way. New motherboards are coming...

hi, is there a way to add / attach / mount an existing zfs dataset already containing data to a bhyve vm? Like when you add storage to a jail. I've searched everywhere but the only questions regarding this topic was this: https://github.com/pr1ntf/iohyve/issues/129 The answer suggests it is...

How you guys deal with this: - Lets say I have automatic daily snapshots for 8 weeks, so 56 snapshots in total. - I create a script that runs weekly and ship the last snapshot (Sunday) to another FreeNAS, and I keep them there for 1 year. The question is: Someone creates a file on Monday, work...

Like the title said, reinstalled FreeNAS 9.10 onto a new USB stick as Coral was being weird to me. Shutdown machine, popped install media into another USB port and installed onto the new USB stick. After booting GUI didn't list anything, so opened a shell terminal and did a zpool import -f...

Hello I am new to FreeNAS. My system Cooler master mini itx case H170 mini ITX 6700k stock heatsink 32gb non ECC 3000mhz ram will be running at 2100mhz due to mobo limitations Four 5tb Seagate expansion Drives, one 512gb SSD on board graphics, 1Gigabit direct connection My plan is to run plex...

We have a 109TB FreeNAS server which we had ZFS replication enabled going to a remote site. We are no longer doing this. We currently have 1.5TB free and I'm looking to clear up space however ive run into the issue where the snapshots are stuck. See below for exact issue...

I've used zpool attach to add a mirror to a single drive vdev, as part of setting up my new server (I had to do it that way as I'm migrating both disks and data; there's a backup of the data on the old server). What surprises me is that after attaching, its resilvering speed was consistently...

Hello, I am implementing a "backup" solution which periodically sends snapshots from one pool to another. It boils down to theese commands: zfs send -Ri $dst_snapshot_name $latest_src_snapshot | zfs receive -Fduv $dst_pool zfs rollback $new_dst_snapshot but you can see the full script here...

Estimados necesito ayuda. ocurre que tenia implementada una maquina virtual en ESXI, esta maquina corria FREENAS 9 y tenia una iscsi LUN agregada como disco. por X motivo esta maquina se murio, levante otra en otro hardware pero necesito agregar la data de la maquina anterior. como lo puedo...

Hey there! Long time lurker first time poster. Running: FreeNAS-9.10.2-U1 (86c7ef5) I have the following setup installed to a 24-bay personal server in rows of four. This was a clean build, nothing transitioned or upgraded. 4x 6TB WD Red 8x 3TB WD Red My hope was to use each row as its own...

Hello guys, I got a quick question about the FreeNAS ZFS deduplication integration. I spend some time and searched for this on the internet, but there was no suitable result. So, I have one specific dataset with 400Gigs of data, where I have deduplication enabled (DD table is kinda small, 700...