[6.12.1] Unintentional partition wipe when assigning different disk to pool

I think adding a warning requiring typing YES to acknowledge before the wipe command is executed would be sufficient.

 

Maybe it would be a good idea to add a new section to the "New Config" area to manage the resetting of pools. Limit the current new config reset to parity array only, and add individual line items for each currently defined pool.

I again ran into a similar scenario here:  https://forums.unraid.net/topic/142155-replacing-single-cache-device-on-unraid-v6123/

 

There is no reason for Unraid to touch the partition/filesystem in these scenarios.

 

If Unraid didn't touch the filesystem in these scenarios, there would be no problem for me.  The drive simply could have been placed in the Unassigned Devices, with its partition entact, nothing touched on the drive.  

 

Here's my proposed simple solution:

 

1)  Unraid should NOT touch the drive's filesystem/metadata/partition information when a device is added/removed from a pool. 

 

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Maybe it would be a good idea to add a new section to the "New Config" area to manage the resetting of pools. Limit the current new config reset to parity array only, and add individual line items for each currently defined pool.

 

I would think Unraid could be smart enough to know that if I'm moving devices between pools, that would automatically mean a "new config" (or change of an existing config).  I don't want to create a new config, lose the config, and have to redo the config for what hasn't changed.  Once I make the changes on "Main", and "Start" (or save if it existed), Unraid should safely handle the changes.

 

I was going to eventually ask for something that I think is related to above...  I think pools that don't use the array need to be separated.  There's no reason to stop the array to manage pools that are not using the array, or have dependencies on other pools.  Each pool should be independent.  I should be able to stop any pool, manage it, and restart the pool, without affecting the other pools, cache, array.

 

Thank you.