Hi everyone,
I'm trying to set up a raidz1 pool with 3 disk for my FreeNAS 9.1.0 machine for media storage purpose, but I'm having some trouble with it due to my inexperience.
My system is based on a Asus E45M1-M Pro motherboard with 8GB of RAM.
I have the following disks:
My (probably wrong) idea is to set up a Raidz1 pool with the three empty drives (3TB, 2TB, 1TB), which should has a 2TB usable space, copy my data into it and then replace the 1TB disk with the remaining 2TB one, expanding the pool to 4TB usable.
If someone can recommend a better idea is well accepted :)
ZFS Manager in FreeNAS 9.1 doesn't allow you to create a raidz1 pool with different sized disks, so I start searching a solution and i found that is possible to do it using the shell and here comes the trouble.
I first tried with
getting the error
"invalid vdev specification
use '-f' to override the following errors:
raidz contains devices of different sizes"
than I tried with
getting
"cannot mount '/Media': failed to create the mountpoint"
Tried some other solution without success.
Zpool status tells me that everything is online and zpool list says that 'Media' has a size of 2.72T (the real size of the 3TB disk) instead of the supposed 2TB.
At this point I'm confused, can someone help me to explain what happened and how I should proceed?
Thanks in advance for your patience!
I'm trying to set up a raidz1 pool with 3 disk for my FreeNAS 9.1.0 machine for media storage purpose, but I'm having some trouble with it due to my inexperience.
My system is based on a Asus E45M1-M Pro motherboard with 8GB of RAM.
I have the following disks:
- 1x 3TB
- 2x 2TB
- 1x 1TB
My (probably wrong) idea is to set up a Raidz1 pool with the three empty drives (3TB, 2TB, 1TB), which should has a 2TB usable space, copy my data into it and then replace the 1TB disk with the remaining 2TB one, expanding the pool to 4TB usable.
If someone can recommend a better idea is well accepted :)
ZFS Manager in FreeNAS 9.1 doesn't allow you to create a raidz1 pool with different sized disks, so I start searching a solution and i found that is possible to do it using the shell and here comes the trouble.
I first tried with
Code:
zpool create Media raidz ada0 ada1 ada2
getting the error
"invalid vdev specification
use '-f' to override the following errors:
raidz contains devices of different sizes"
than I tried with
Code:
zpool create -f Media raidz ada0 ada1 ada2
getting
"cannot mount '/Media': failed to create the mountpoint"
Tried some other solution without success.
Zpool status tells me that everything is online and zpool list says that 'Media' has a size of 2.72T (the real size of the 3TB disk) instead of the supposed 2TB.
At this point I'm confused, can someone help me to explain what happened and how I should proceed?
Thanks in advance for your patience!