Just Call Me Big D
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Hello,
I'm having trouble with a disk disappearing from TrueNAS webGUI after deleting the pool that was stored on it. Is there anyway to "refresh" without rebooting the whole system? The drive is listed in /dev so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
The system:
Dell Precision T1700, core i7, 16 GB DDR3, Broadcom dual-port 20Gb NIC, LSI MegaRAID 8260-8i in RAID mode with Cachecade on one 8TB VD, and another 1TB VD consisting of 4 SSDs in RAID0.
The backstory:
I have grown furious with Microsoft after a lifetime of being a DOS/Windows Fanboy. Except for my gaming computer and company laptop, I've been running my personal laptop and desktops on openSUSE full-time since about May. I am now working on converting my media server to Linux as well, but I have a lot of media on it on drives all formatted as NTFS that will need to be reformatted. So I spun up an old desktop with a bunch of drives and TrueNAS Core to act as a temporary SAN as I backup everything on the server.
I've always used Synology in the past, but I can't afford one with a 10Gb NIC - little more one with two 10 Gb NICs - so wanted to give TrueNAS a shot at this task. I have the ports teamed for 20Gb between server and TrueNAS, and am using iSCSI.
When I set up TrueNAS initially, I went right in and created storage pools on the RAID VDs, because that's how I've always done it in Synology DSM. But then when configuring iSCSI, I realized I could assign a full disk to a target instead of creating a file in the pool. This seemed like a much better idea to me, so I deleted the 8TB pool, and then assigned it to my target. That's working very well so far, and I'm quite happy. When I deleted the 1TB pool however, the disk simply disappeared from the GUI even though, as mentioned above, I see it as /dev/mfid0 in shell.
I'm guessing it will come back after a clean reboot, but as I'm in the middle of transferring a few TBs over remotely and the Precision has no BMC if something goes awry, I don't want to take that chance right now. I was hoping there was a quick fix for this issue in the meantime. I know using hardware RAID is not the preferred method here, but I'm kinda stuck with what I have for the time being.
Any help is appreciated.
I'm having trouble with a disk disappearing from TrueNAS webGUI after deleting the pool that was stored on it. Is there anyway to "refresh" without rebooting the whole system? The drive is listed in /dev so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
The system:
Dell Precision T1700, core i7, 16 GB DDR3, Broadcom dual-port 20Gb NIC, LSI MegaRAID 8260-8i in RAID mode with Cachecade on one 8TB VD, and another 1TB VD consisting of 4 SSDs in RAID0.
The backstory:
I have grown furious with Microsoft after a lifetime of being a DOS/Windows Fanboy. Except for my gaming computer and company laptop, I've been running my personal laptop and desktops on openSUSE full-time since about May. I am now working on converting my media server to Linux as well, but I have a lot of media on it on drives all formatted as NTFS that will need to be reformatted. So I spun up an old desktop with a bunch of drives and TrueNAS Core to act as a temporary SAN as I backup everything on the server.
I've always used Synology in the past, but I can't afford one with a 10Gb NIC - little more one with two 10 Gb NICs - so wanted to give TrueNAS a shot at this task. I have the ports teamed for 20Gb between server and TrueNAS, and am using iSCSI.
When I set up TrueNAS initially, I went right in and created storage pools on the RAID VDs, because that's how I've always done it in Synology DSM. But then when configuring iSCSI, I realized I could assign a full disk to a target instead of creating a file in the pool. This seemed like a much better idea to me, so I deleted the 8TB pool, and then assigned it to my target. That's working very well so far, and I'm quite happy. When I deleted the 1TB pool however, the disk simply disappeared from the GUI even though, as mentioned above, I see it as /dev/mfid0 in shell.
I'm guessing it will come back after a clean reboot, but as I'm in the middle of transferring a few TBs over remotely and the Precision has no BMC if something goes awry, I don't want to take that chance right now. I was hoping there was a quick fix for this issue in the meantime. I know using hardware RAID is not the preferred method here, but I'm kinda stuck with what I have for the time being.
Any help is appreciated.
