Zfs help

[louiecola2]

I am trying to setup my freenas and I have at the moment 2 drives in the box and going to add more in the next month or so. I am running freenas 9.1.1 and want to run them in a mirror ( raid 1 ) but when I go to add new zfs volume it dosn't give me the option to select mirror or raid 1, both drives are plugged in and the freenas gui sees them both. Is there something that I am doing wrong or do I have to use an older version of freenas to get this option. Please Help.

 

[enemy85]

There is the "mirror" option in the create volume tab. If u can't see it there is for sure another problem

 

[gpsguy]

Click on the "+" sign under available disks - you should see the disks appear in the volume layout box below.

You'll be able to select the mirror, from the dropdown box.

 

[Dusan]

This assumes that both drives are of the same size. Are they? Louiecola2 did not provide any information about the disks.

 

[louiecola2]

Yes they are the same size

 

[louiecola2]

here is a screenshot of drives and what my issue is

 

[Dusan]

Unfortunately the drive sizes are not same. One is 250.0GB, the other 250.1GB. FreeNAS 9.1.1 doesn't like this and won't allow you to create a mirror. The easiest workaround is to boot into FreeNAS 8.3.2 create the pool and then go back to 9.1.1.

 

[rcstevensonaz]

Unfortunately the drive sizes are not same. One is 250.0GB, the other 250.1GB. FreeNAS 9.1.1 doesn't like this and won't allow you to create a mirror. The easiest workaround is to boot into FreeNAS 8.3.2 create the pool and then go back to 9.1.1.

Did anyone find a way to do this with the 9.2.0 release? I want to keep the features of the GUI such as force 4K alignment and gpt labels (rather than the manual process). But, I need to create my mirror from drives that are both 500Gb and 640Gb.

I just switched from NAS4Free to FreeNAS and I am struggling to find out how to create vdev with mixed drive sizes and using non-contiguous drives. Hoping someone has found a hidden GUI feature to allow this.

 

[cyberjock]

Yeah.. not fixed in 9.2.0. If you read that bug report I told you to comment on you'll see the problem is NOT closed.