Options to combine two virtual disks into one

[eponymous]

Hi,

I've got two virtual disks on my system:

VD0 - RAID6 - 20TB on one LSI hardware RAID controller
VD1 - RADI6 - 10TB on the second LSI hardware RAID controller

I want to be able to combine these two drives into one so I can have a file system which spans them both.

Is this possible under NAS4Free? Under Linux I'd normally use LVM but I don't see any support for that in NAS4Free.

Many thanks for your help.

[raulfg3]

you can use ZFS, create a vdev for vd0 and same for vd1 , and confine both in a big ZFS Pool.


PD: My recomendation is not use virtual disk on ZFS, use real disk instead and configure ZFS to manage redundancy, is the good a best aproach to modern filesystem.


But is your NAS and you can do test to compare, eg: extract 1 or 2 disk and replace for new ones and do a scrub to restore data, and compare scrub time in both aproach.

in case you need to upgrade motherboard and/or controller, ZFS works fine with real disk, and need exact same controller for virtual disk, that can be a problem in the future.

[eponymous]

This is a great suggestion - thanks

However, I was very absent-minded when I posted my question and totally forgot to state that I'm wanting do this without using ZFS.

Are there any ways? I'm looking to encrypt the volume as well. Would putting them in a software RAID0 be the only options? i.e combine my two hardware RAID6s into a single software RAID0?

Thanks again!