Posted August 1, 2024Aug 1 I've got an Unraid Array, AppData on an SSD and Cache on M.2 as Pool Devices.. This all works great and fast. I've also got a Pool Device named Torrents (I originally had Torrents as a directory in my Unraid Array, but found that it was a real speed sucker - putting it as a dedicated device works great). Simple (?) question... can I set up the Torrents Pool as RAID 1? From what I can gleem, it looks to be possible if I use BRTFS as the filesystem on Torrents. But, really, I have no idea. Is it possible? And if so, how would one go about doing it?
August 1, 2024Aug 1 It's possible with btrfs or zfs, but these are usually not great for torrenting, because of being COW, xfs usually performs much better for that.
August 4, 2024Aug 4 Author Ok, thanks JorgeB. So I already have one drive (sdb) setup for torrenting with xfs. How would I go about adding a second drive (sdo) to it and making it RAID 1? I have no problem if I have to wipe the current drive - I have an alternate torrent disk already set up. And I'm very comfortable with the BASH command line.
August 4, 2024Aug 4 7 hours ago, Dan M said: How would I go about adding a second drive (sdo) to it and making it RAID 1? You cannot have RAID on XFS. XFS Pools are single drive only.
August 4, 2024Aug 4 As was mentioned you cannot have a multi-drive XFS pool. To do this you need to have it formatted as btrfs or ZFS (which means any existing content is wiped).
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