Hi,
So I am 100% new to Napp-It, I'm running it in a VM on ESXi 6.7 using Omni-OS
(I started with the Jan 2018 Napp-in-One image and upgraded it after changing the publisher to Omni-OSCE since I got an error when trying to deploy the May 2018 OVA).
Anywho, it's a great piece of software and I'm enjoying it very much so far. I was using FreeBSD for recording TV to a ZFS striped-mirror array, but I had some unformatted disks around and I wanted to try Napp-It, if for nothing else than to format the drives in a format usable by both Solarish, FreeBSD and Linux OS (apparently they are non-importable from FreeBSD->Solarish OS, but importable from Solarish->FreeBSD)
So I made a pool yesterday using the Napp-It interface and accidentally made a 4-way mirror. I didn't catch it to this morning (You'd think I'd realize when I saw free space for four 2TB drives was only 1.76TB, but I'm slow...)
So I removed two of the drives from the pool and I knew I needed to add them back with something like
I was extrapolating from this guide on how to add the drives back to the pool as a striped-mirror (I used it to create another striped-mirror set this morning and it worked fine):
How To Create a ZFS RAID 10 Array
However, when I used the Napp-It interface to 'extend' the pool using the two drives I had just removed (also using the interface), Napp-It said the pool was there, ZFS reported that it was still working, in fact I was still RECORDING TV while I did all this and there were no hiccups.
But Napp-It reported that the pool did not exist.
I did in fact manage to add the drives back using the `zpool add` command at the CLI, and again, totally everything was working.
I think there's some bug in the Napp-It interface where if you have removed drives from an existing pool, if you try and edit said pool later on it doesn't register it as existing - even if it's listing the pool, it comes up in drop-down menus, etc. - when trying to add the drives back in some way.
I tried logging-out and back in and refreshing the browser window, too.
Just wanted to make people aware of this in case they need to do something like remove drives from a pool and remake the same pool, they might have to pull up an Oracle ZFS wiki and get the commands for the CLI.
BTW Thanks for Napp-It, it's a great piece of software. Liking it very much so far.
So I am 100% new to Napp-It, I'm running it in a VM on ESXi 6.7 using Omni-OS
Code:
uname -a
SunOS napp-it01 5.11 omnios-r151026-51c7d6fd75 i86pc i386 i86pc
Anywho, it's a great piece of software and I'm enjoying it very much so far. I was using FreeBSD for recording TV to a ZFS striped-mirror array, but I had some unformatted disks around and I wanted to try Napp-It, if for nothing else than to format the drives in a format usable by both Solarish, FreeBSD and Linux OS (apparently they are non-importable from FreeBSD->Solarish OS, but importable from Solarish->FreeBSD)
So I made a pool yesterday using the Napp-It interface and accidentally made a 4-way mirror. I didn't catch it to this morning (You'd think I'd realize when I saw free space for four 2TB drives was only 1.76TB, but I'm slow...)
So I removed two of the drives from the pool and I knew I needed to add them back with something like
Code:
# zpool add poolname mirror c0t5000CCA222ECEB77d0 c0t5000CCA229C9A88Fd0
How To Create a ZFS RAID 10 Array
However, when I used the Napp-It interface to 'extend' the pool using the two drives I had just removed (also using the interface), Napp-It said the pool was there, ZFS reported that it was still working, in fact I was still RECORDING TV while I did all this and there were no hiccups.
But Napp-It reported that the pool did not exist.
I did in fact manage to add the drives back using the `zpool add` command at the CLI, and again, totally everything was working.
I think there's some bug in the Napp-It interface where if you have removed drives from an existing pool, if you try and edit said pool later on it doesn't register it as existing - even if it's listing the pool, it comes up in drop-down menus, etc. - when trying to add the drives back in some way.
I tried logging-out and back in and refreshing the browser window, too.
Just wanted to make people aware of this in case they need to do something like remove drives from a pool and remake the same pool, they might have to pull up an Oracle ZFS wiki and get the commands for the CLI.
BTW Thanks for Napp-It, it's a great piece of software. Liking it very much so far.