Already created volumes offered when creating new volumes

[MockY]

I have successfully created 2 new volumes with 2 new 3TB drives. I have since then mounted NTFS drives and copied over the data to these two drives. Because I still want to use the old drives, I figured I would create new volumes with these NTFS drives, essentially letting FreeNAS formatting these drive to ZFS and then start moving the data back, or some of it.

However, when selecting Create Volume, only one of the NTFS drives are listed as an option, along with one of the 3TB drives, who already is a volume with active shares. So this is very confusing. Why would it only show one of the NTFS drives and not the other, and why even include an already active volume in the list?

This is the output from gpart, showing that all these drives are available

Code:

fileserver# gpart show /dev/ada0
=>        34  5860533101  ada0  GPT  (2.7T)
          34          94        - free -  (47K)
         128     4194304     1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)
     4194432  5856338703     2  freebsd-zfs  (2.7T)

fileserver# gpart show /dev/ada1
=>        63  2930277105  ada1  MBR  (1.4T)
          63  2930277105     1  !66  (1.4T)

fileserver# gpart show /dev/ada2
=>        34  5860533101  ada2  GPT  (2.7T)
          34          94        - free -  (47K)
         128     4194304     1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)
     4194432  5856338703     2  freebsd-zfs  (2.7T)

fileserver# gpart show /dev/ada3
=>        63  3907029105  ada3  MBR  (1.8T)
          63  3907024002     1  !66  (1.8T)
  3907024065        5103        - free -  (2.5M)

But in the GUI, I can only create a voule of one of them, inlcuding the already created volume.



Could someone please shed some light on this one?

 

[ProtoSD]

You didn't say which specific version of FreeNAS you're using. 8.0 or 8.01 beta?
It definitely looks like a problem, but post back with your version info.

 

[MockY]

8.0, or more specific (taken from System Information tab) FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1

 

[MockY]

I physically removed the 2TB drive and left the 1.5TB drive, just to see if anything changed. The only thing that changed is that now only one of the 3TB drives shows up when clicking Create Volume, and the 1.5TB drive is not listed at all.

I have encountered multiple bugs in FreeNAS so far that effects the most trivial of actions. I have very simple needs and I can't even do them. Unfortunately, I have formatted the new 3TB drives to ZFS and spent the 3 days it took to copy over the data to these drives. No other NAS solution supports this file system, so if I went with Openfiler instead, I would have to format them again and start the copy process once more.

If only I bought 2TB drives instead and left things like they were.
Very frustrating. This is free software so there is really no room to complain, but if a release was coined stable, then one would assume this would be the case. Ohh well...