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ZFS zpool takes an hour+ to mount

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I've tried asking around on Discord and it was suggested to post here. I'm on 7.2 beta 3, created a unencrypted ZFS zpool of 3x18tb drives as raidz2, and was going to expand it later with the miracles of 7.2. I created the zpool fine, and started moving data on it with the hopes of emptying the array and absconding with the old drives to put in the new Zpool.

After a restart, it is currently taking 40+ minutes to mount the Zpool, earlier this morning it took an insane amount of time as well but eventually mounted in safe mode.

Attached is a copy of syslog and diagnostics.

nastr0niii-syslog-20250924-0150.zip nastr0niii-safemode-diagnostics-20250923-0753.zip

I have no idea what's going on. Any ideas of what's going on or what can be done to move things along?

Edited by cave

Solved by cave

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Post the output from zfs list -t all

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zfs list -t all

NAME                     USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
zpool                   14.0T  2.58T  1.94T  /mnt/zpool
zpool/Movies            2.08T  2.58T  2.08T  /mnt/zpool/Movies
zpool/Television2       10.0T  2.58T  10.0T  /mnt/zpool/Television2
zpool/media              422M  2.58T   112K  /mnt/zpool/media
zpool/media/Movies       120K  2.58T   120K  /mnt/zpool/media/Movies
zpool/media/Music       95.6K  2.58T  95.6K  /mnt/zpool/media/Music
zpool/media/Television  95.6K  2.58T  95.6K  /mnt/zpool/media/Television
zpool/media/eBooks       421M  2.58T   421M  /mnt/zpool/media/eBooks

Ignore the random structures under /media, I got out in front of my skis on creating datasets without realizing how Unraid would handle shares.

I'm currently expanding the zpool at the moment, but honestly after adding this second drive, everything does seem snappier. Once the zpool is done expanding I'll see if it still feels like a glacier to mount.

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If it's still slow during mount next, during munt, open a terminal window and type: zpool iostat -vyl 10 1

Then post the output from that, note that it will take 10 seconds to show the output.

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Hello!

I've completed the expansion, moved the data around, and have since mounted the zpool quite speedily without any issues. It appears to be fine at this juncture.

Thanks for your help!

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Alright, well I am back. It's been 5+ hours, and I'm seeing reads (only a couple of mbs total).

It's doing something, but what I'm not sure. It's only seeing activity on 1 core with high usage. I tried the command, but I'm not getting anything back.

EDIT:

              capacity     operations     bandwidth    total_wait     disk_wait    syncq_wait    asyncq_wait  scrub   trim  rebuild
pool        alloc   free   read  write   read  write   read  write   read  write   read  write   read  write   wait   wait   wait
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
zpool       31.4T  34.0T      0  18.2K      0   304M      -    2ms      -    2ms      -      -      -  559us      -      -      -
  raidz2-0  31.4T  34.0T      0  18.2K      0   304M      -    2ms      -    2ms      -      -      -  559us      -      -      -
    sdi1        -      -      0  4.48K      0  75.9M      -    2ms      -    2ms      -      -      -  567us      -      -      -
    sdc1        -      -      0  4.52K      0  75.9M      -    2ms      -    2ms      -      -      -  567us      -      -      -
    sdf1        -      -      0  4.52K      0  76.0M      -    2ms      -    2ms      -      -      -  568us      -      -      -
    sdb1        -      -      0  4.72K      0  76.0M      -    2ms      -    1ms      -      -      -  534us      -      -      -
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

The output for zpool iostat -vyl 10 1

It finally came up, this is the output after the fact, not during :\

Edited by cave

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The stats look normal to me, there's no slower disk, suggesting it's reading the metadata. After import, post the output from zfs list -t all

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