Hi,

 

I’m currently still on Unraid 6.11.

I have 1 standard array made of a single nvme drive that I use for dockers and VMs, and that is mounted as default.

While the main data “array” is a 8x HDD ZFS pool that I created using the plug-in and that uses a custom mount point at /zfs.

 

I have a lot of user scripts that access the datasets/pool using that custom mount point and I would like to keep those unchanged.

 

If I upgrade to Unraid 6.12, is there a way:

1) Have 2 arrays. One for the fast NVME drive (either xfs or zfs) and one for the large (but slow) ZFS pool?

2) Keep the custom mount point for the zfs pool?

 

Thanks

Andrea

Edited December 20, 20232 yr by Andrea3000

1 hour ago, Andrea3000 said:

1) Have 2 arrays. One for the fast NVME drive (either xfs or zfs) and one for the large (but slow) ZFS pool?

You can have two pools, or one array and one pool, not two arrays, we call array the main Unraid array with parity

 

1 hour ago, Andrea3000 said:

2) Keep the custom mount point for the zfs pool?

Only if you keep mounting it manually, if you use the GUI the mountpoint will be /mnt/pool_name

22 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Only if you keep mounting it manually, if you use the GUI the mountpoint will be /mnt/pool_name

 

Thanks @JorgeB

At the moment I'm not mounting it manually, it is done automatically by the ZFS plugin.

Do you happen to know what would the command be to properly mount the zfs pool?

zpool import pool_name

 

22 hours ago, JorgeB said:

zpool import pool_name

 

Thanks @JorgeB

I just upgraded to 6.12 and everything appears to be working as expected.

 

I’m running the zpool import command from a user script that is set to run at first array start only.

It works but I need to force a refresh of the ZFS master portion of the dashboard the first time I open the page. Almost as if the pool is mounted after the ZFS master plug-in scans for available ZFS pools.

I will try to move the command to the go script to see if it makes a difference. 

Edited December 22, 20232 yr by Andrea3000