ndboost
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I am running FreeNAS 9.2.0-RELEASE.
I originally had a 4x - 2TB Z1 configuration. Which would give me ~5.5TB of useable space.
I initially tried to add a 5th disk, and it added it as a striped vdev to the pool, this is bad. So i took a snapshot of the root volume /vault (With recursive on).
I then sent that snapshot to another array of disks on the machine temporarily (completely separate pool). This pool is called "back", you can see it in the top screenshot..
I then rebuilt the "Vault" pool with 5x - 2TB Z1 configuration. Once that was done, I restored the snapshot back onto this vault to give me all my data and vol's back. That all worked fine and dandy.
I stumbled across a strange inconsistency though. Doing the math, I should expect the following sizing:
With this being noticed i have three questions
I originally had a 4x - 2TB Z1 configuration. Which would give me ~5.5TB of useable space.
I initially tried to add a 5th disk, and it added it as a striped vdev to the pool, this is bad. So i took a snapshot of the root volume /vault (With recursive on).
I then sent that snapshot to another array of disks on the machine temporarily (completely separate pool). This pool is called "back", you can see it in the top screenshot..
I then rebuilt the "Vault" pool with 5x - 2TB Z1 configuration. Once that was done, I restored the snapshot back onto this vault to give me all my data and vol's back. That all worked fine and dandy.
I stumbled across a strange inconsistency though. Doing the math, I should expect the following sizing:
- 4x - 2TB Z1 = ~5.5TB of space usable
- 5x - 2TB Z1 = ~7.3TB of space usable
With this being noticed i have three questions
- Why is this happening
- How can I fix it
- Why doesn't FreeNAS Web GUI show Space Used as a sum of all of its sub volumes?