where...did the 'pool' column go in system>disks?

[artlessknave]

that was just about the only reason to even go to that page...and now it's gone in both truenas and freenas?
am i missing it somehow?
searching for anything on it is impossible.....system or disk is in like every single google or forum search result :/

 

[sretalla]

You're not the only one.

It was useful, but there are other ways to get it in CLI, so I don't really care and never really used the GUI for that side of things.

You do need to use that part of the GUI to set disk SMART and ACPI settings though.

 

[artlessknave]

You're not the only one.

It was useful, but there are other ways to get it in CLI, so I don't really care and never really used the GUI for that side of things.

You do need to use that part of the GUI to set disk SMART and ACPI settings though.

yes....but it's a GUI appliance, so making you go to the command-line is...perplexing.
thinking about putting it in as a bug report, but wanted to make sure I'm not just blind first, since I can't figure out a meaningful way to search for it.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

The disklist.pl script still works very well:

Code:

root@freenas[~]# /mnt/hdd/scripts/disklist.pl
partition  label                                       zpool      device  disk                          size  type  serial             rpm
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ada4p2     gptid/90ca92cb-e242-11ea-8163-ac1f6b76641c  boot-pool  ada4    TS32GSSD370S                    32  SSD   **********           0
ada5p2     gptid/90e06af4-e242-11ea-8163-ac1f6b76641c  boot-pool  ada5    TS32GSSD370S                    32  SSD   **********           0
ada0p2     gptid/cdf41064-858b-11ea-a52c-0cc47afa3c72  hdd        ada0    WDC WD40EFRX-68N32N0          4000  HDD   ***************   5400
ada1p2     gptid/cdbefe36-858b-11ea-a52c-0cc47afa3c72  hdd        ada1    WDC WD40EFRX-68N32N0          4000  HDD   ***************   5400
ada2p2     gptid/cdcde998-858b-11ea-a52c-0cc47afa3c72  hdd        ada2    WDC WD40EFRX-68N32N0          4000  HDD   ***************   5400
ada3p2     gptid/58919886-86af-11ea-95bf-ac1f6b76641c  hdd        ada3    WDC WD40EFRX-68N32N0          4000  HDD   ***************   5400
nvd0p1     gptid/130b6024-ad74-11ea-a7cf-ac1f6b76641c  hdd        nvd0    INTEL MEMPEK1J032GA             29  NVME  ****************     0
nvd1p1     gptid/0c661dcc-e247-11ea-b73e-ac1f6b76641c  ssd        nvd1    Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB  1000  NVME  ***************      0
nvd2p1     gptid/8d299abe-e22e-11ea-9ee7-ac1f6b76641c  ssd        nvd2    Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB  1000  NVME  ***************      0

9 selected disk(s)

Source: https://github.com/nephri/FreeNas-DiskList

 

[no_connection]

If the script works well then there should be a button for it in the GUI.

 

[artlessknave]

disklist.pl is awesome. i even got a feature added, and pointed out some errors. that, however, is a workaround, not an answer.
it should be in the GUI for those who don't know the command line, or those who do know the command line but would rather just...get it from the GUI.
it's not like I'm asking for a new feature...it was there and now is not.

 

[cobrakiller58]

seems someone brought the matter up in august https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-107187 maybe it is worth some votes to get an optional column to return

 

[artlessknave]

ah nice find that's what I was looking for.

 

[artlessknave]

so apparently the answer to my question is "someone decided to remove it".
yay.

 

[cobrakiller58]

I haven't seen a comment that states why it was removed, but if the report gains enough traction and it won't cause breakage there is hope of it returning.

 

[Matt_G]

My decision to stay on 11.2 - U7 looks better every single day.

 

[cobrakiller58]

I'm still testing TrueNAS core on a VM i will be moving to it probably when U1 hits, I have a couple concerns but no show stoppers for current and planned usage.

Edit:spoke too soon "Slow transfers with SMB and iSCSI" potential bug is a show stopper for me.

 

[artlessknave]

ya, I still plan to update....but if this bug report gets closed ill probably reopen it as either another bug report (if there was no reason given) or a feature request.
it's not a critical feature, it's just incomprehensible that it was removed.

 

[NitrousMoxide]

I have no idea where to vote to bring this feature back, but it was very useful in the GUI and I used it all the time. With 45 disks in a chassis, multiple pools, and not all HDDs in the same pool/not all disks in use, this was a good feature to quickly identify which disks, their size, position and which disk belonged to which pool. I would rather have the column option in the GUI to know the name of the pool a disk belongs than how fast the disk spins or the type/model the disk is. I guess it will be the CLI and zpool status used with glabel status for now.

 

[artlessknave]

I have no idea where to vote to bring this feature back,

go to the linked bug report and vote. I think you would need to make an account.

there is a script, disklist.pl, that is, by far, the better replacement for a command line version. it is what the GUI disk list should be...

GitHub - nephri/FreeNas-DiskList: FreeNas "Disklist" script for report informations about installed hard drives, volumes and partitions

FreeNas "Disklist" script for report informations about installed hard drives, volumes and partitions - nephri/FreeNas-DiskList

github.com

 

[NitrousMoxide]

Yes! Thank you for this. It works very well and tells me all I need to know. I am curious why they removed the pool column, as it was very helpful to be able to do everything from the GUI and not the CLI as it seems is always suggested by those that offer support for FreeNAS. This works like a champion and I appreciate the help.

 

[artlessknave]

ya, they readded it with no comment, explanation, or dev time (that I can find)....which tends to lead to the conclusion that it was not well considered when it was removed.

 

[AtariRiots]

I updated to 11.3-U5 a week ago and was Googling like mad to see if something was wrong with my FreeNAS install and luckily found this thread. Bizarre why they would remove this info, really. If I'm reading this right, they have added it back in TrueNAS 12, right?

Thanks for the script, it will help me until I have the guts to move to 12.0 I guess...

 

[artlessknave]

ya it's been re-added.