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FreeBSD ZFS raidz1 Started a (da59) drive replacement. During resilver, second drive (da60) failed
Our system started slowing down... Found a couple of drives in the same raid that looked scary.
Replaced the drive that S.M.A.R.T. marked as failure eminent. (da59)
Then da60 started to error.
Finally ...
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Why are my ZFS pools "unavailable"?
I just replaced a hard-drive, that was part of two different redundant pools, and now both pools are unavailable...
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There are four drives: 2x4TB (da0 and ada1) and 2x3TB (da1 and da2).
One ...
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Poor disk performance on FreeBSD
We have IO issues with our servers on FreeBSD and I am wondering if FreeBSD is the cause.
Server:
FreeBSD (our environment runs in a jail)
i7 8 cores (utilized around 10 - 20 %)
64 GB RAM (utilized ...
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Transfer RAID 0 from FreeNAS to WindowsⓇ
I have three disks in a RAID 0 with some data on it (not mission‐critical). This pool was created on a FreeNAS installation and I was wondering if there is a way to re‐mount the same RAID 0 in Windows ...
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Plan for hot replacing damaged RAID-1 drive in freebsd 9.0
i have System FreeBSD 9.0 with RAID configuration
# mfiutil show config
mfi0 Configuration: 2 arrays, 2 volumes, 0 spares
array 0 of 2 drives:
drive 4 ( 558G) ONLINE <SEAGATE ...
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3-drive RAID-1 on pfSense box
I have a pfSense box with a 2-drive RAID-1 using gmirror. Recently, a drive failed, and I replaced the drive, and the RAID-1 is now back to normal. But this incident also made me interested in ...
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Slow read and write speeds on FreeBSD ZFS
my home storage server, which currently consists of 6 x 3 TB Seagate drives, 12 GB DDR3 RAM and a Core i3 540, has really poor performance when reading from or writing to the raidz2 I set up on.
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How to change GELI passphrase on FreeBSD 11 Root-On-ZFS system with mirror RAID?
How to change GELI passphrase on FreeBSD 11 Root-On-ZFS system with mirror RAID?
Swap devices are also mirrored and ancrypted.
I have /dev/ada0p5.eli /dev/ada1p5.eli and /dev/mirror/swap.eli devices....
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#raidctl - Operation not support with volume of this level [duplicate]
I am having problem to create a RAID volume on the internal disks of a Sun Server (Sunf Fire V440)
When I type the below command
raidctl -f -c -r 5 c1t0d0 c1t1d0 c1t2d0 c1t3d0
it displaysOperation ...
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Setup SunFire 440 Raid Configuration
How can I setup Internal Hard disk RAID5 configuration?
I have SunFire 440 machine with 4 internal hard disk. I have never worked on Sun systems except for now and I am exploring google for the above ...
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SW ZFS vs. HW RAID controller
I run a FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE webserver, and I have 2 sata HDD on a HW RAID1 controller, but when I installed the OS, it won't do it on a ZFS filesystem (for mirroring as I intended to) but I was ...
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FREENAS: Why isn't mv command instant within a RAIDZ1 volume?
I'm currently 'reorganizing' file structure within a RAIDZ1 volume. Moving directories from one dataset to another, which are both contained on the same volume.
SSH'ed into the machine and did a ...
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Cannot create zpool, how to get rid of intel raid volume?
This is a FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 computer. It has 5 disks installed. The ada0 and ada1 disks are used with a hw raid to provide the root filesystem:
root@gw:/home/gandalf # ls /dev | grep ada
ada0
ada1
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Freebsd 8.1 Samba4 smbclient returns NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER
I'd like to setting up a NAS server and run Samba4 on it.
When I'm runing this command:
# smbclient -I 192.168.48.128 -L NAS_GROUP
Enter root's password:
Connection to 192.168.48.128 failed (Error ...
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Safely migrate from 3ware 9650SE-8LPML to a 3ware SAS 9750-8i?
I have a server with a potenially faulty 3ware 9650SE-8LPML. I can log in to the server but the interface keeps reseting causing the whole system to lock down for minutes.
My host suspects its the ...
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FreeBSD raid issue
One of my machines (FreeBSD) has lost its raid (0/ stripe).
If I go
[root@torry /usr/home/bclark]# gstripe list
Geom name: st0
State: UP
Status: Total=3, Online=3
Type: AUTOMATIC
Stripesize: 65536
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How much overhead does ZFS have? [closed]
Adding a file system to a raw device of course takes up some overhead.
The question is how many percent does ZFS take?
And does overhead differ depending on the ZFS raid set?
Update
The purpose is ...
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Does ZFS replace the need for hardware/software RAID?
I want to provide protection against data loss on my servers.
Typically, I'd use hardware RAID 1 or 5, but I've been reading up on ZFS.
Is it correct that ZFS itself provides RAID 1 or 5 like data ...
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Join multiple filesystems (on multiple computers) into one big volume
Scenario:
Have 10 computers, each have 12x2TB HDDs (currently) in raidZ2 (10+2) configuration, so, in the each computer i have one approx. 20TB volume.
Now, need those 10 separate computers (...
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FreeBSD vinum striped (RAID0) volume - performance issues
I've experimented with different striped volumes in vinum under FreeBSD 8.2-release. I have current hardware (Intel i5 processor, adequate MB and 8GB RAM).
My test-setup consists of 2 or 4 disks in a ...
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How do I recover from a faulted zpool where one device is OK, but was temporarily offline?
I have a zpool with 4 2TB USB disks in a raidz config:
[root@chef /mnt/Chef]# zpool status farcryz1
pool: farcryz1
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ ...
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I need an affordable, mass storage system. For under £1000. Possible? [closed]
I've got a budget of £1000, but really I'd like it for less than that.
I want to set up a 20TB+ storage system for a project I'm working on that will use roughly 15TB, and the rest for storing photos, ...
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Why can't add a hot spare in freebsd? Can anybody help me fix it?
Why can't add a hot spare?
# mfiutil add e1:s1 mfid0
mfiutil: Drive 1 is not available
I found the reason is e1:s1 is marked online, it must be Marked as an unconfigured good drive, and to mark that ...
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ZFS: How can I stop a zpool replace that's currently in progress?
A few days ago, I noticed that the ZFS pool on my home server had started reslivering a disk by itself but was no longer making any progress. The disk had some SMART errors (but did not consider ...
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ZFS on top of Hardware Mirroring, or just mirror in ZFS?
I have an IBM x346 with dual 3.2Ghz Xeons and 2x36GB 15k SCSI disks. I'm running an entirely ZFS-based install of FreeBSD 8.1.
I can configure the bios to mirror the two disks, and then put ZFS on ...
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FreeBSD after motherboard replacement; should I have any concerns?
So after three years my motherboard (Asus M2N-0MX) has died off. As I go shopping for its replacement tomorrow I have a concern about the data that I currently have on the drives wtihin. I'm currently ...
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Freenas -- Choosing the right redundant storage regime (RAID, ZFS, Rsync?)
I've been running a freenas box for a few months as a proof of concept and all seems to be well now reliability wise. So it's time to up the storage capacity and build it into production mode.
I was ...
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FreeBSD RAID rebuild by data center, now data in /var/logs and /var/db/mysql is *gone*, OH NO!
OK, our data center did a RAID rebuild (and possibly some other stuff) on our server overnight. Something failed at some point, I checked on things this morning, and it appears as if the /var ...
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SATA Drive and RAID Controller Recommendation for FreeNAS [closed]
I'm looking to build a RAID Array for storage of media (Audio, Video), file server for both CIFS/NFS and as a repository for backups. Performance isn't a huge concern but reliability is as this is ...
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