tannisroot
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In Truenas Scale (no idea how it’s on Core), if you want to convert a single disk pool to a mirrored pool, you use the “Extend” feature in “Devices” menu. However, this wording is very confusing and even misleading to an extent. Under the hood, the equivalent of this feature is the “zpool attach” command, and there is no good reason that it’s named “Extend” in GUI. One might think that this “Extend” feature is actually for adding additional space to the pool, because that is kind of the primary meaning of the word “extend”.
It would be much more clear and straight-forward for a novice user if this feature we renamed to “Attach” or “Attach a Mirror” to be consistent with the official ZFS terminology. Also, it wouldn’t hurt if there was a tooltip or a warning that told in detail to the user that this feature is for adding a mirror, since currently there is nothing in the GUI that would explain to the user what the feature is for before they proceed with it.
In fact, you can see in this forum post that other users also voice their frustration with the wording:
https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/add-mirror-disk-to-existing-pool.101289/
If you think the same, please support this suggestion ticket on Jira:
https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-125962
It would be much more clear and straight-forward for a novice user if this feature we renamed to “Attach” or “Attach a Mirror” to be consistent with the official ZFS terminology. Also, it wouldn’t hurt if there was a tooltip or a warning that told in detail to the user that this feature is for adding a mirror, since currently there is nothing in the GUI that would explain to the user what the feature is for before they proceed with it.
In fact, you can see in this forum post that other users also voice their frustration with the wording:
https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/add-mirror-disk-to-existing-pool.101289/
If you think the same, please support this suggestion ticket on Jira:
https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-125962
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