Can I name a pool "System" and then store the system file on it? Will that cause any issues?

 

Thanks

You'll need to remove the share of the same name first, but yes works fine.

So I can't have a share with the same name as the pool?

My goal was to have a pool of 2 2TB SSD's for the system folder on my unraid server... Somewhere to keep the Docker folders, appdata, domain folder, libvert file... I have them all on a pool called config, (because I was nervous about naming the pool System when I created it.) and am about to shuffle things around and thought I might try making it more accurate.

 

Arbadacarba

3 hours ago, Arbadacarba said:

So I can't have a share with the same name as the pool?

Yes, you cannot have a share named the same as a physical device or pool.

Systems it is.

 

I think I can live with that... my VM's are all on there so technically there are more than one system on it...

 

At least that is what I'm telling myself.

 

So now I have a NVME cache and SSD storage for VM's and System files

 

Thanks

For reference, I went through this and did delete the system share, this is how I organised it.

 

Any thoughts on a good name for the pool in which the system share resides on? It's not the Cache drive as I have one of those, its a seperate high speed drive where I store VM drives, Dockers and will move the system share over onto it...

I was never happy with Systems as it resulted in systems/system and looks bad.

I know this is being incredibly nit picky, but since I'm rebuilding the system anyway to get rid of 5 years worth of cruft, I thought I would try to solve it.