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Ubuntu openzfs 2.012/30/2023 ![]() When ZFS first came out, Sun's position was that they could support removal of vdevs, but it wasn't worth the effort because enterprise customers (their entire user base, since this was on Solaris) never wanted to do that. Is this something the ZFS devs are even considering fixing? Or is it just impossible to fix? I must admit that when I saw version 2.0 I was hoping for fixes to the single biggest pain point ZFS has: no ability to change vdev topology, no way of removing vdevs from pools and no way of rebalancing data when adding vdevs to pools. Though maybe some way to visualize quotas might be interesting, but you can have quotas total more than the size of pool. zfs also doesn't have "volumes" in the traditional sense, for for example resizing doesn't really make sense. Adding disks is pretty simple, but there's still a chance you fuck something up, especially if you mean to add some disks in as a mirror and forget to specify that it should be a mirror. I'm not sure if there are any GUIs for stuff like that. Not a deal breaker, but just curious if anyone has streamlined this yet. If I need to recover my FreeNAS array it doesn't sound like I can just grab my Mint live USB and diagnose the problem in a GUI. If you blow up your Windows install you can just pop your data disk into another Windows box and you're good. I've complied the kernel from source for Gentoo minimal installs, but these days I have enough to manage that I just want something simple that is trivial to manage and fix. Trust me, it's not that I can't do the commands, it's more that I don't want to. I can use parted / gparted for all standard file systems to quickly resize volumes, but according to their feature matrix that's still not a thing for ZFS. Add a disk, remove a disk, resize the pool through the GUI. Pop 3 disks into the system, create a pool on it. I'm just curious if there is anything you can do post install. The fact that you can use Ubuntu to setup a ZFS pool during install is good. So no I wouldn't expect the full blown feature set to ever be in the GUI. If you're looking for a GUI to do everything zfs/zpool/zdb do, I don't think there's anything for you. If you're asking for a distro that lets you pick zfs during a graphical install, I believe newer version of Ubuntu do that. Outside of an appliance with a web ui are there any desktop distros you can configure ZFS through the GUI? I'd prefer to not spend 3 days having to dig up commands to setup the array and then having to re google a bunch of articles when I want to make changes.įreeNAS is probably your best bet if you're looking to set up some kind of appliance-like NAS. I tried recreating the cache file using the command below but auto-import still doesn't work (after a reboot) and re-running the zpool import -c command above has no effect # zpool set cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.So the real question is what Distros are out there which make setting up ZFS a piece of cake? I've thought about playing around with it before, but I'd really like a nice streamlined UI to set up ZFS with. rw-r-r- 1 root root 4016 Jan 27 08:03 zpool import -c /etc/zfs/zpool.cache -aNĬannot import 'storage-myserver': one or more devices is currently unavailableīut no issues importing the pool using this command zpool import storage-myserver I then tried mounting my pool using the cache ls -al /etc/zfs/zpool.cache Jan 27 09:12:22 myserver systemd: rvice: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jan 27 09:12:22 myserver systemd: rvice: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Please fix rvice, rvice, rvice not to pull it in. Jan 27 09:12:21 myserver udevadm: rvice is deprecated. I found this in the logs: journalctl -b | grep zfs I just never bothered fixing it until now. ![]() The problem happened even before 21.10 was out. Setup: Ubuntu 21.04 (with latest updates).
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