Hello! Pretty new to Unraid, yet I love it so much already. Everything's at your fingertips and no unnecessary abstractions.

However, the "Main" tab is so weird. Just wanted to leave some feedback on it and rant a little.

1. I don't get it, what exactly it tries to be? Why is it main? Main out of what? I can't even wrap my head around its intent. Why is it so different depending on the state of the array. Even for basic troubleshooting (i.e. which options does it contain) it becomes very problematic.

2. Unintuitive operations, poor layout. Why do we have graphs both for "free" and "used"? Isn't one enough? Why can't we make changes and ask it to apply stopping the array in the process for example? Why would we need to bring everything down before planning the next move?

3. No real feedback about the state of the devices. What's exactly happening to this or that pool? Why don't we have a link to a page with the status of the pool, current processes, etc.? You know it's bad, when the terminal output is more human-readable than your GUI - check out the screenshots. Can you guess what's currently happening looking at that page? Yet we do have that very useful line with "Pool of two devices", random stats and the most important, all encompassing and ever needed unlabeled spin up/spin down buttons, haha

IMO, this poor thing is up for renovation!

Edited March 3Mar 3 by Zoomer88

Maybe you only have those 2 ZFS pools in your screenshot so you are missing some of the things normally seen in MAIN.

Main is designed to give you an overview of the Unraid Array, Pools, Unassigned Devices, and Array Operation. If you go to Display Settings, you can enable tabbed Page view, which will divide each of those sections into separate tabs on the Main tab.

From Main, you can access additional information about each pool and each device. The zpool status you displayed from the command line, for example, is just one of the things that are displayed on the page for each pool, which you can access by clicking the first device name in the pool.

I do only have 2 ZFS pools. So you mean, that's because it's ZFS? Ah, I see then. I know, that ZFS is new for Unraid. That's actually why I'm here :)

So I switched to a tabbed view, however I didn't get anything new. All the sections moved to separate tabs and that's all. I don't see pages for pools. However, now that I'm thinking about it, maybe that's related to the ZFS Master plugin?

E.g., here's the tabbed view, pool devices tab. Pretty much the same:

Notice, how there's no mention of pools at all, just the devices. Clicking on those links (Hdd/Hdd2) takes me to the device settings there. Again, no mention of pools.

However, here's the ZFS Master tab. Is it replacing something vital from unmodified Unraid? Cause it's happily reporting that my pool is online and in working order (nice, lol):

No additional links, no nothing. Yeah... that's probably that "ZFS Master" thing, right?

51 minutes ago, Zoomer88 said:

I don't get it, what exactly it tries to be? Why is it main?

Just shows everything storage. That used to be the only/main thing before Docker/VM etc was added.

52 minutes ago, Zoomer88 said:

Just wanted to leave some feedback on it and rant a little.

53 minutes ago, Zoomer88 said:

Unintuitive operations

Ranting's pretty pointless, and most people are happy with it. If you wanted to give useful input maybe mention what you'd expect to see there?

Intuitive/unintuitive is subjective, likely what you would find intuitive would be unintuitive for others, nothing can ever fully satisfy everyone.

3 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Just shows everything storage. That used to be the only/main thing before Docker/VM etc was added.

Sooo, eeer, it could've been simply 'Storage', no? :D

4 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Ranting's pretty pointless, and most people are happy with it. If you wanted to give useful input maybe mention what you'd expect to see there?

Intuitive/unintuitive is subjective, likely what you would find intuitive would be unintuitive for others, nothing can ever fully satisfy everyone.

I wasn't only ranting though, was I? I mean, I tried my best to give the useful input and mentioned what I'd expect to see there. I mean, that probably a side effect of either ZFS Master plugin or ZFS only pools in the system? Going to investigate. If that's the case, please, disregard. But either way, as I mentioned, I expect there to be current pool statuses and ongoing processes pertaining to them (pretty important, don't you think?). At least something along the lines of "POOL IS EFFING RESILVERING AFTER BEING DEGRADED STOP ALL THE PORN WATCHING OR I DON'T KNOW!!!exclamationmark. I'd also like to see names of the pools, as now I only see the device names, I think. edited: The page somehow has very little on pools, is what I'm saying.

I also don't like the way I have to stop the array to get to the pool settings/slots/what-have-you. Why?

So, in other words, you know, everything I've mentioned in the OP :)

I just like to reiterate that I don't dislike the system. It's just this page is so weird, so out of place and out of touch with reality.

Edited March 3Mar 3 by Zoomer88

4 hours ago, Zoomer88 said:

Clicking on those links (Hdd/Hdd2) takes me to the device settings there. Again, no mention of pools.

If you click on Hdd, it will take you to the page for that device, then scroll down for the Pool status and other sections related to the pool.