I wound up causing a major outage of my services and destroying my home dir

Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest... by ziml77 on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:52PM (#30389583)

Huh. I hadn't even considered that it would be possible to assign partitions to the vdevs instead of the entirety of the drive. Though I guess it does make sense that you can, otherwise you wouldn't be able to use a drive participating in a vdev as a boot device.

I don't need the feature that badly though. It's just something that's interested me about Unraid (and most consumer NAS devices actually), especially since I'm running 4 2TB drives and 2 3TB drives as a single RAIDZ2 vdev in my home TrueNAS setup.

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Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest... by magicalhippo on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:56PM (#30389637)

> I hadn't even considered that it would be possible to assign partitions to the vdevs instead of the entirety of the drive.

You can even use files[1]! Mostly available for testing though.

It would be nice with a bit more flexibility with regards to the underlying storage, hence this concept. I tested it in a VM and it works fine, just slow when the underlying disks gets trashed. Mostly noticeable on heavy writes and scrubs.

Should work fine on SSDs though, and might possibly even be a boon to very fast NVMe drives (increasing concurrency).

[1]: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/7/zpoolconcepts.7...

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