Questions tagged [zpool]
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ZFS pool degraded with faulted disk, export and replace not working
I run into troubles after trying to add more disks to my Ubuntu server device. While being a total beginner I powered the server off, added two more disks and restarted the system only to find one of ...
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Replaced a dead disk in a ZFS pool. After resilvering finished, the status look weird :/
I replaced a dead disk in a ZFS pool (on FreeNAS-11.1-U6.3) following the hints I found at Need to replace disk in zpool ... confused ...
# zpool replace raid2 gptid/f00-whatever-id-that-was-...
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How to correctly attach a disk to a zpool to create a mirror? - zpool attach says no such pool or dataset
Yesterday one of my pools which is a mirror was degraded - one of two 2TB disks failed. I replaced the failed one with another disk 4TB (ada3). Now I want to add another 4TB disk (ada1) to enlarge the ...
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ZFS pool degraded on reboot
I have a Ubuntu server set up with a 14-disk ZFS raidz2 pool.
About 80% of the time, on reboot, I will end up with a degraded pool with two of the disks marked as faulted. The drives that are ...
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ZFS replace disks in freebsd, how and when
I have the following zpool configuration:
zpool status
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
data ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
da1 ...
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Faulted zpool recovery - can I dd some disks to new disks to allow me to scavenge donors?
I am in the process of trying to recover a pool that had been degraded and neglected, then had a second mirror member fail, resulting in a faulted pool. For whatever reason, the spare never ...
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cannot import a zpool volume : I/O error
this is on nexenta open storage. I have a zpool that is in UNAVAIL state because of some disks.
# zpool import -F
pool: delta
id: XYAZA
state: UNAVAIL
status: One or more devices are ...
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ZFS (Freenas) off-lining an apparently healthy drive during scrub
I have a 4 disc RAIDZ config running on Freenas 9.1. Earlier I noticed that one of the drives had been taken offline. I ran smartctl, and all the discs passed SMART. A few days ago the machine had ...
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How to delete the pool with state = Faulted?
I have a pool named test_pool and i can only see it when "zfs import" is run. How can i delete this pool and detach associated device from it ?
# zpool import
pool: test_pool
id: ...
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Can I remove a disk from a zpool raidz2?
Unfortunately I do not really understand zfs. I have a Proxmox 5 node with 5 300GB disk in raidz2. History:
zpool create -f -o cachefile=none -o ashift=12 rpool raidz2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2 /...
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ZFS - 2 Striped mirror set to 1 mirror set, how?
Currently I'm running a ZFS striped mirror set:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
data ONLINE 0 0 0
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Hard drive in zpool showed error, but later seemed ok. How do I tell if something is wrong?
My work computer has a 4 hard drives setup in a zpool on an Ubuntu system. I'm trained as a programmer, not IT, but I'm partially responsible for managing my computer. After rebooting the other day, I ...
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Increase rpool size on Solaris 11.3 ESXi Virtual Machine
I'm trying to run updates on my Solaris 11.3 server but I am unable to because there isn't enough space on my rpool. I've tried deleting log files and other useless stuff but it's not enough. ...
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mdadm reclaimed my zfs storage pool
I recently converted a mirrored mdadm partition on Ubuntu 16.04 to a zfs mirrored pool, or so I thought.
After a few days of using the zfs pool, I rebooted the system and the zfs pool disappeared.
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Where'd my zpool data go?
N.B. I'm a complete noob when it comes to ZFS pools.
I created a ZFS pool yesterday across 4 3TB HDDs, like so:
2017-06-10.16:31:08 zpool create data sda sdc sdd sde
2017-06-10.16:31:29 zfs set ...
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zfs backup script cannot receive destination zpool is renamed
Hello I have an issue with a backup script for ZFS snapshots:
basically the break down of the script is this:
### START OF SCRIPT
# These variables are named first because they are nested in other ...
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How to add more physical disks to a mirror vdev (to increase redundancy)?
Can more physical drives be added to mirror vdevs after a zpool has been created?
For example, if a zpool is created using:
zpool create test_pool mirror /dev/sd0 /dev/sd1 mirror /dev/sd2 /dev/sd3
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ZFS disk in two pools after reboot?
I'm pretty new to ZFS, so perhaps I'm reading this wrong.
After rebooting my server I had to reimport my pool, and upon doing some was presented with this state:
# zpool status -v
pool: data
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How to export zpool from alternate disk slice?
I need some help in recovering ZFS pool. Here is scenerio. There are two disks -
c0t0d0 - This is good disk. I cloned it from other server and boot server from this disk.
c0t1d0 - This is original ...
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Missing ZPool after server rebuild
I'm hoping someone can help. I am relatively new to ZFS so please bare with me if I don't fully understand your replies at first.
Basically I am running RHEL 6.8 with ZFS installed with a ZPool ...
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Unable to Import Zpool
We are facing an failure of one of our Solaris/ZFS file server. The h/w won't boot, we are not that worried about the server but the data is precious. We took out a set of 8 drives in raidz2 pool and ...
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Importing an exported pool on Solaris 11 fails
Unable to import an exported pool.
Based on the info below, am I able to somehow import the pool? Or, is there a way to retrieve the data from the drive itself?
There is no corruption on either ...
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zfs change block size without going offline
Given a raidz1 vdev on FreeBSD 10 with this config:
root@gw:~ # zpool status
pool: data
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices are configured to use a non-native block size.
Expect ...
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ZFS vdevs accumulate checksum errors, but individual disks do not
I'm running a vendor-specific derivative of FreeNAS 9.3.
My trouble started when I installed a new JBOD chassis to add two new vdevs into my pool, and the chassis had a bad board. During this time, I ...
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Is there a zpool configuration other than raidz2 which lets me survive ANY 2 out of 4 failures?
I am going to purchase a HP Microserver gen8 system for a home fileserver and it contains 4 drive bays.
I will use those four drive bays to create a single zpool for mass storage.
My goal is the ...
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ZFS slow read speed on 8 drive 4 vdev striped mirrors
I have 8 3TB WD Red SATA drives sdb through sdi i use in my pool.
My boot and OS drive is a an 850 EVO SSD on sda.
The 8 WD drives are on a Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 Add-on Card, 8-Channel SAS/SATA ...
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ZFS restarts resilvering over and over again. Also very slow
Here's one of my Solaris 10 servers after a couple of disk replacements in a zpool
pool: volume
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will
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zpool didn't increase after adding disk slice
i added formatted 3 different slices from a disk and added to a zpool but i didn't increase his size.
This is the pool size before adding the slide
root@snr-hosting-bta-02:~# zfs list z3363af79-edf5-...
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ZFS issue after enlarging image
I created a new img using the following command:
truncate -s 250G disk.img
and I replace the existing image that I used for zpool with that one using (lxd.img was 2G):
zpool replace lxd lxd.img ...
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ZFS mirror migrated to other system with dd -> zpool import fails
I'm pretty new to ZFS and this might be an easy problem (but I don't find any discussions about how to do this):
I've messed up a FreeBSD installation on a Root-on-ZFS mirrored ZFS Pool on a ...
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zfs zpool degraded drive missing
I have a degraded zpool called storage of 4 6TB Drives in 2 mirrors. One of the drives on the second mirror is unavailable. All cables seem to to be plugged in physically. Did my device id change?
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zpool forgot all data devices of a pool: how to bring them online again?
My Debian server is running ZFS on Linux. Today I had to reboot it two times due to software upgrades. A first reboot because of ZFS update from some 0.6.4-1.2-1-wheezy to 0.6.5.2-2-wheezy, which went ...
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ZFS pool slow sequential read
I have a related question about this problem, but it got too complicated and too big, so I decided I should split up the issue into NFS and local issues. I have also tried asking about this on the zfs-...
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ZFS permanent error; options for recovery
Background: small personal server, email, web, shell, etc, for family and friends.
SunOS 5.11, snv_113 from November 2008. Server built in 2009. I believe that was either opensolaris or Solaris early ...
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No more space on FreeNAS 9.3. But only half of space actually in use based on “du -sh” command
This morning I got a warning on my FreeNAS 9.3 machine about "Not enough space"
warning: The capacity for the volume 'SeanVolume' is currently at 85%, while the recommended value is below 80%.
It's ...
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zfs pools unavailable, disks shared with other pools
My ZFS pool called data do not mount anymore after a shutdown.
Maybe there was some automatic update on the computer. I Don't know.
zpool status returns
no pools available
zpool import returns ...
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zpool disappears whenever solaris cluster reboot or power cycle
I have following setup
Oracle Solaris 10 -> 5.10 Generic_147147-26 sun4v sparc
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit production
Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3u2 for Solaris ...
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ZFS shows pool state FAULTED, but all devices are ONLINE; how can I recover my data?
Our 100TB NAS based on FreeNAS 8 was unexpectedly powered off due to power failure. After turning it on back, 100TB zpool "projects" was unmounted with state "FAULTED".
I've tried zpool import -fFX, ...
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ZFS - zpool replace never finishes
I have a 5 x 3TB raidz1 array on a ubuntu 14.04.1 server. Last month, one of the drives died (audible clicking). I was able to replace the drive with zpool replace RAID <dead drive> <new ...
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ZFS pool members start sectors overwriten, including partition table and L0 L1 labels. Data and L2 L3 labels intact. How to recover?
Have two identical 2Tb disks in mirror ZFS pool. Unfortunately, overwriten start of disks with errorneus attempt to attach them via HP Smartarray P400 RAID controller as separate RAID0 logical volumes ...
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Solaris: Encrypting a zpool NOT a dataset within a pool?
What is the way in Solaris to encrypt a zpool? All the documentation supporting ZFS encryption talk about using "zfs create" and specifying a dataset WITHIN a pool. I just became SA for several ...
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zfs raidz can not read from disk
my freebsd 10 server running on zfs raidz. I have a problem with reading files, test
dd of=/dev/null if=/tmp/test/1000mb.bin bs=1024k count=1000
953+1 records in
953+1 records out
1000000000 bytes ...
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Is it possible to detach and reattach a ZFS disk without requiring a full resilver?
I have a ZFS mirrored pool with four total drives. Two of the drives are intended to be used for rotating offsite backups. My expectation was that after the initial resilvering I could detach and ...
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How to partition drive for ZFS
I'm trying to create a ZFS pool using the following command:
zpool create MyPool disk /dev/sda
However, I get the following error:
cannot use '/dev/disk': must be a block device or regular file
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Can't find created directory on zfs
I'm using openSUSE 13.1.
I created a new directory on a zpool
zfs create zpgd0/iSCSI -o compression=lz4 -o atime=off
but I'm not looking on that...
So I do it again but I'm getting...
zfs create ...
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Can I choose a sparse file as vdev for a zfs pool?
man zpool states that a vdev for a zfs pool can be a "regular file". Can I specify a sparse file (the warning about the integrity of the file being determined by the underlying filesystem should ...
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Why is the size of a zfs filesystem after sending it to a different pool different?
I've move a zfs filesystem from a pool made of a bunch or mirror vdevs to another pool made of two raidz1s with the following command
# zfs send -R pool/project@moving | zfs recv tank/project
As far ...
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2 drive failures in zpool raid
I have a question if I'm going to be able to restore this partition if I order replacement drives. zpool clear didn't seem to do anything.
zpool status Partition1 ...
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zpool import: volume FAULTED with corrupted data, is it possible to save some data?
I was using Freenas 8.2 and decided to upgrade to 9.2. All seem to go well, upgraded zfs to 28 and rebooted. During next boot it seem to take forever and at some point I decided to turn off the ...
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Need to replace disk in zpool … confused
I need to replace a bad disk in a zpool on FreeNAS.
zpool status shows
pool: raid-5x3
state: ONLINE
scrub: scrub completed after 15h52m with 0 errors on Sun Mar 30 13:52:46 2014
config:
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