Gladio

I have some special question to ZFS in combination with unraid. I have some 10TB disk in unraid array. Now I want to buy some 12 TB disk and want to use 10 TB in original array and 2 TB as zfs pool: I have the following idea: zero out the disk with preclear creating a 10TB partition /dev/sdx1 with same sector-count like the other disks and format it with xfs creating a 2 TB partition /dev/sdx2 and format it with zfs adding disk to array create a zfs pool with the smaller partitions. adding on ssd to the array a a cache disk using a second ssd as cache disk for the zfs-pool I this a possible way to go ahead? What is happening when I am adding a disk (preformated) tom the array and the whole disk size is not same? Please give me some ideas.

Thanks - my use case is to exports the *.img file via iSCSI to a proxmox-host VM. For emergency reasons I want to mount the img-File if my proxmox-vm is broken. I did it via the playground-docker image - installing kpartx and use it as a privileged docker container - mounting the /mnt/user/iSCSI directory with the iSCSI-Image Files. #kpartx -a -v volume1-iscsi.img #mount /dev/mapper/loop3p1 /mnt/disks/p1 #mount /dev/mapper/loop3p2 /mnt/disks/p2 mounted the partitions into local unraid server. I know, that I can only mount read-only because of consistency. Thanks for your help. --- snipp OK - It has been worked it is very easy to mount the partitions locally

I have some less specific question about the file-format of the img-files which has been created by iscsi-gui. It seems to be a raw format, so I should able to mount them with kpartx. But I don't know which linux type is below unraid, so I am not able to port kpartx to unraid. Can somebody give me a hint, how to do this? Greetings and thanks