leshankinson
Cadet
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- Jan 6, 2023
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Hi,
I realize that the purpose of the VDev is to create a virtual hard disk out of many disks (so a pool of disks). However, is it possible within TrueNAS Scale to create more than one VDev on the same set of hard disks? I need/ want to create a SLOG, but it needs so little space and I don't want to use up 2 SATA or M.2 slots and waste a bunch of storage space (since the SLOG uses so little and storage is cheap) if I don't have to. Ideally, with a pool of 2 disks (let's say 250GB), I would be able to put 2 VDevs side by side or even just partition the VDev to be used by the SLOG and maybe by something that else doesn't require a lot of IO's on a regular basis (like some backup storage). Honestly, unless I just don't understand (newbie), this seems to be a big limitation w/ TrueNAS and maybe ZFS... would be great if future version would allow partitioning of the pool. Please let me know if there is a work-around.
Thanks,
TrueNAS newbie
I realize that the purpose of the VDev is to create a virtual hard disk out of many disks (so a pool of disks). However, is it possible within TrueNAS Scale to create more than one VDev on the same set of hard disks? I need/ want to create a SLOG, but it needs so little space and I don't want to use up 2 SATA or M.2 slots and waste a bunch of storage space (since the SLOG uses so little and storage is cheap) if I don't have to. Ideally, with a pool of 2 disks (let's say 250GB), I would be able to put 2 VDevs side by side or even just partition the VDev to be used by the SLOG and maybe by something that else doesn't require a lot of IO's on a regular basis (like some backup storage). Honestly, unless I just don't understand (newbie), this seems to be a big limitation w/ TrueNAS and maybe ZFS... would be great if future version would allow partitioning of the pool. Please let me know if there is a work-around.
Thanks,
TrueNAS newbie