Hello, I am new to TrueNAS/ZFS with zero experience in UNIX so I decided to to some testing before I entrust my data on it. I used TrueNAS Core 13.0 Release version. The hardware I use is not relevant so I won't bother you with unnecessary details.
So for my tests I created a ZVolume with 5 drives in ZRAID 1 configuration, and added some files to it. Everything worked as expected.
Then I tried to simulate a catastrophic drive loss: I booted into Windows, and I formatted one of the 5 drives. I wanted to see how the drive replacement and resilvering procedure would work in practice.
I booted back into TrueNAS, and I saw that the system correctly warned me that one drive in the Zpool was damaged/missing. So then I tried to replace it following the instructions in the online manual.
It did not work. Clicking the 'Replace Disk' button does absolutely nothing (with either the "Force" checkbox enabled or not). No error message, no nothing. The "Replacing disk" Dialog box remains open with no feedback at all. (The 'Cancel" button works for what's worth.)
I know TrueNAS is free and I can't expect everything to work as intended, but as first impressions go this is not ideal.
So for my tests I created a ZVolume with 5 drives in ZRAID 1 configuration, and added some files to it. Everything worked as expected.
Then I tried to simulate a catastrophic drive loss: I booted into Windows, and I formatted one of the 5 drives. I wanted to see how the drive replacement and resilvering procedure would work in practice.
I booted back into TrueNAS, and I saw that the system correctly warned me that one drive in the Zpool was damaged/missing. So then I tried to replace it following the instructions in the online manual.
It did not work. Clicking the 'Replace Disk' button does absolutely nothing (with either the "Force" checkbox enabled or not). No error message, no nothing. The "Replacing disk" Dialog box remains open with no feedback at all. (The 'Cancel" button works for what's worth.)
I know TrueNAS is free and I can't expect everything to work as intended, but as first impressions go this is not ideal.