Hi all,
I apologize if this has previously been answered but I haven't been able to find the answer. I need to increase the capacity of my FreeNAS. I am currently running a 6 disk RAIDZ2 pool and will be adding 2 more drives to make it a 8 disk RAIDZ2. I know that this cannot be done without destroying the current pool and creating a new 8 disk RAIDZ2 pool. I have a backup of all the data in preparation for this task.
My question is, once I have created the new pool, can I reuse my existing datasets and associated shares, and will my existing permissions be maintained? I am trying to avoid having to reconfigure all of the varying permissions I have setup on the shares and sub folders after I migrate the data back to the FreeNAS. Most of the permissions that I have configured have been applied to the folders through Windows.
I would appreciate any help or guidance that anyone can offer.
Thanks.
I apologize if this has previously been answered but I haven't been able to find the answer. I need to increase the capacity of my FreeNAS. I am currently running a 6 disk RAIDZ2 pool and will be adding 2 more drives to make it a 8 disk RAIDZ2. I know that this cannot be done without destroying the current pool and creating a new 8 disk RAIDZ2 pool. I have a backup of all the data in preparation for this task.
My question is, once I have created the new pool, can I reuse my existing datasets and associated shares, and will my existing permissions be maintained? I am trying to avoid having to reconfigure all of the varying permissions I have setup on the shares and sub folders after I migrate the data back to the FreeNAS. Most of the permissions that I have configured have been applied to the folders through Windows.
I would appreciate any help or guidance that anyone can offer.
Thanks.