Re: Format XFS on replacement drive / Convert from RFS to XFS (discussion only)
Hi all,
So I'm not sure if this is expected behavior but I am running U6 b12 and just swapped DISK11 for a bigger disk (1.5TB -> 4.0TB). For some background, I moved from 5.0.5 straight to 6.0 b12 at the beg of December. I have my settings set to format all new drives as XFS. I precleared this drive in a temporary unRAID box and it had no FS on it. The way I removed it was setting the array not to start on next boot, shutting down, swapping the drive, starting back up, choose the new drive
It is very important to understand the way parity works. When you swap / reconstruct a drive, unRAID is going to restore it as a bit for bit copy. It DOES not copy each file individually. If the disk was fragmented, the restored disk is fragmented. Every sector of the new disk will be identical to every sector on the old disk.
So if the old disk is formatted with RFS, when you rebuild it, the new disk will be formatted with RFS. If you tell unRAID that the FS on the new disk is XFS, and the
