Tag: ZFS
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Replacing a drive in a ZFS array
I have a ZFS RAIDZ2 array in my main server and recently it suffered a drive failure. Naturally I was woefully under prepared for this occurrence so I rushed out and bought a replacement drive and got cracking with learning how to safely replace the drive. Background If you don’t already have one you need…
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Manually Creating a ZFS Pool From Mismatched Drives
I recently suffered a drive failure on my main ZFS array. Naturally I wasn’t as prepared for this even as I should have been so I wasn’t 100% sure how to go about replacing the drive. I decided to press my old rack server into action to get some practice in before working on the…
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Automatically Scrubbing ZFS Under Proxmox
I thought this one was going to be a challenge to set up but it turns out it’s set up automatically to scrub the disks on the server Sunday of every month. The important files for this setup are: The file in cron.d sets the schedule and calls the scrub script which actually performs the…
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Building a Home Server with Proxmox – ZFS
The installation of Proxmox is well covered in official guide so I won’t cover that here. There really aren’t many choices to be made during install anyway. I installed the OS on a 1TB M.2 drive and I plan on storing most of my VM’s there as well. Obviously, this will be backed up as…
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Fixing the Proxmox VE “zpool create failed: exit code 1” problem
Right at the outset I want to say I’m quite new to ZFS at the time I write this so do your own homework. Anyway, I was trying to create a RAIDZ array on my test server which is currently running Proxmox 7.3. I set up the array using the interface provided and it threw…