Can anyone point me to a good guide of ZFS?

[jclaydon1969]

 I am currently trying out unraid 7 beta 2  because i thought it might be easier to create a zfs ppol, but so far I'm just not getting it.

 

When I was using unraid 6.10,  i formatted two 4TB drives as zfs.   My plan was to stripe these drives, then mirror it to the 8 TB drive i bought.  but unfortunately, my system kept hanging, most likely due to overheating. and the data parity check, wouldn't get past 50% because every time i had to reboot, it would start at zero again. I needed this drive to hold around 7 tb of movie files so I wouldn't lose anything.

 

I tried to finish the process in linux and import the finished drives into unraid by typing

 

oot@Linux:~# zpool create media_and_movies stripe /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
cannot open 'stripe': no such device in /dev
must be a full path or shorthand device name

i have tried doing this by drive id as well, but I get the same message. I'm obviously missing something simple, but for the life of me i don't know whatt

[JorgeB]

7 hours ago, jclaydon1969 said:

My plan was to stripe these drives, then mirror it to the 8 TB drive i bought

You cannot do that with zfs.

 

stripe is not a valid option, but you should use the GUI to create zfs pools.

 

[jclaydon1969]

UPDATE: i finally managed to get a zpool of 3 disks mounted, but i think i still did it wrong because it will not allow me to create shares. first i formatted the drives as media 1, 2 and 3 then added those disks to a pool. when i create a share i select the z pool but hen i click add it doesnt show up

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[JorgeB]

You created three separate pools, is that what you wanted?

[jclaydon1969]

On 7/19/2024 at 7:42 AM, JorgeB said:

You created three separate pools, is that what you wanted?

no, I wanted one pool that basically takes my two 4TB drives and treats ist as a 8TB drive..   I was going to use a second 8TB drive i purchased as parity in the array..

[JorgeB]

You just need to create a new pool in the GUI, change to two slots, assign both disks, click on the first pool device, then erase, then set to zfs and stripe, then start he array and format the pool.