ZFS pool config

[shmish]

Hi,
This fall I upgraded from Freenas7 to NAS4Free. I was using ZFS with raidz1, with 3x500GB drives. I recall having about 950 GB of storage When I upgraded to NAS4Free, I also added a fourth drive to the ZFS pool. I can't remember exactly what I did, but it wouldn't have been anything terribly complicated. I would have found a post here that instructed on how to add a drive. The idea would have been to have close to 1500 TB of drive space with mirror (or redundancy - I'm not sure of the exact language).

My old config for disks and ZFS are:

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<disks>
		<disk>
			<uuid>c0445be4-8af2-4397-8f3b-53059761d05b</uuid>
			<name>ad1</name>
			<devicespecialfile>/dev/ad1</devicespecialfile>
			<harddiskstandby>60</harddiskstandby>
			<acoustic>0</acoustic>
			<apm>0</apm>
			<transfermode>auto</transfermode>
			<type>IDE</type>
			<desc>WD200GB</desc>
			<size>238476MB</size>
			<smart>
				<extraoptions/>
			</smart>
			<fstype>ufsgpt</fstype>
		</disk>
		<disk>
			<uuid>57e77b51-a139-45df-970f-9b9c8f2c1d6f</uuid>
			<name>ad4</name>
			<devicespecialfile>/dev/ad4</devicespecialfile>
			<harddiskstandby>0</harddiskstandby>
			<acoustic>0</acoustic>
			<apm>0</apm>
			<transfermode>auto</transfermode>
			<type>IDE</type>
			<desc>500-1</desc>
			<size>476941MB</size>
			<smart>
				<extraoptions/>
			</smart>
			<fstype>zfs</fstype>
		</disk>
		<disk>
			<uuid>8b01ee76-c9de-4178-ba0a-ce04179a49a8</uuid>
			<name>ad6</name>
			<devicespecialfile>/dev/ad6</devicespecialfile>
			<harddiskstandby>0</harddiskstandby>
			<acoustic>0</acoustic>
			<fstype>zfs</fstype>
			<apm>0</apm>
			<transfermode>auto</transfermode>
			<type>IDE</type>
			<desc>Seagate500</desc>
			<size>476941MB</size>
			<smart>
				<extraoptions/>
			</smart>
		</disk>
		<disk>
			<uuid>f51beab8-c25a-43c7-9de9-c41fdde2bd46</uuid>
			<name>ad8</name>
			<devicespecialfile>/dev/ad8</devicespecialfile>
			<harddiskstandby>0</harddiskstandby>
			<acoustic>0</acoustic>
			<apm>0</apm>
			<transfermode>auto</transfermode>
			<type>IDE</type>
			<desc>500-2</desc>
			<size>476941MB</size>
			<smart>
				<extraoptions/>
			</smart>
			<fstype>zfs</fstype>
		</disk>
		<disk>
			<uuid>9162dcfb-c8eb-4851-89ab-10ea396a3c39</uuid>
			<name>ad10</name>
			<devicespecialfile>/dev/ad10</devicespecialfile>
			<harddiskstandby>0</harddiskstandby>
			<acoustic>0</acoustic>
			<apm>0</apm>
			<transfermode>auto</transfermode>
			<type>IDE</type>
			<desc>500-3</desc>
			<size>476941MB</size>
			<smart>
				<extraoptions/>
			</smart>
			<fstype>zfs</fstype>
		</disk>
	</disks>
<zfs>
		<vdevices>
			<vdevice>
				<uuid>b29df859-0e80-4822-b387-518154fe817a</uuid>
				<name>Fileserver_raidz1_0</name>
				<type>raidz1</type>
				<device>/dev/ad4</device>
				<device>/dev/ad8</device>
				<device>/dev/ad10</device>
			</vdevice>
		</vdevices>
		<pools>
			<pool>
				<uuid>885dd26b-d156-4320-8d0c-7feeca714ae2</uuid>
				<name>Fileserver</name>
				<vdevice>Fileserver_raidz1_0</vdevice>
				<root/>
				<mountpoint/>
			</pool>
		</pools>
		<datasets/>
	</zfs>

Only this weekend I've come to realize that I'm now getting 1000 GB of storage. My new config says:

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<disks>
		<disk>
			<uuid>c0445be4-8af2-4397-8f3b-53059761d05b</uuid>
			<name>ad4</name>
			<devicespecialfile>/dev/ad4</devicespecialfile>
			<harddiskstandby>60</harddiskstandby>
			<acoustic>0</acoustic>
			<apm>0</apm>
			<transfermode>auto</transfermode>
			<type>IDE</type>
			<desc>WD200GB</desc>
			<size>238476MB</size>
			<smart>
				<extraoptions/>
			</smart>
			<fstype>ufsgpt</fstype>
		</disk>
		<disk>
			<uuid>57e77b51-a139-45df-970f-9b9c8f2c1d6f</uuid>
			<name>ad0</name>
			<devicespecialfile>/dev/ad0</devicespecialfile>
			<harddiskstandby>0</harddiskstandby>
			<acoustic>0</acoustic>
			<apm>0</apm>
			<transfermode>auto</transfermode>
			<type>IDE</type>
			<desc>500-1</desc>
			<size>476941MB</size>
			<smart>
				<extraoptions/>
			</smart>
			<fstype>zfs</fstype>
		</disk>
		<disk>
			<uuid>8b01ee76-c9de-4178-ba0a-ce04179a49a8</uuid>
			<name>ad1</name>
			<devicespecialfile>/dev/ad1</devicespecialfile>
			<harddiskstandby>0</harddiskstandby>
			<acoustic>0</acoustic>
			<fstype>zfs</fstype>
			<apm>0</apm>
			<transfermode>auto</transfermode>
			<type>IDE</type>
			<desc>Seagate500</desc>
			<size>476941MB</size>
			<smart>
				<extraoptions/>
			</smart>
		</disk>
		<disk>
			<uuid>f51beab8-c25a-43c7-9de9-c41fdde2bd46</uuid>
			<name>ad2</name>
			<devicespecialfile>/dev/ad2</devicespecialfile>
			<harddiskstandby>0</harddiskstandby>
			<acoustic>0</acoustic>
			<apm>0</apm>
			<transfermode>auto</transfermode>
			<type>IDE</type>
			<desc>500-2</desc>
			<size>476941MB</size>
			<smart>
				<extraoptions/>
			</smart>
			<fstype>zfs</fstype>
		</disk>
		<disk>
			<uuid>9162dcfb-c8eb-4851-89ab-10ea396a3c39</uuid>
			<name>ad3</name>
			<devicespecialfile>/dev/ad3</devicespecialfile>
			<harddiskstandby>0</harddiskstandby>
			<acoustic>0</acoustic>
			<apm>0</apm>
			<transfermode>auto</transfermode>
			<type>IDE</type>
			<desc>500-3</desc>
			<size>476941MB</size>
			<smart>
				<extraoptions/>
			</smart>
			<fstype>zfs</fstype>
		</disk>
	</disks>
<zfs>
		<vdevices>
			<vdevice>
				<uuid>b29df859-0e80-4822-b387-518154fe817a</uuid>
				<name>Fileserver_raidz1_0</name>
				<type>raidz1</type>
				<device>/dev/ad4</device>
				<device>/dev/ad8</device>
				<device>/dev/ad10</device>
				<desc/>
			</vdevice>
		</vdevices>
		<pools>
			<pool>
				<uuid>885dd26b-d156-4320-8d0c-7feeca714ae2</uuid>
				<name>Fileserver</name>
				<vdevice>Fileserver_raidz1_0</vdevice>
				<root/>
				<mountpoint/>
				<desc/>
			</pool>
		</pools>
		<datasets/>
	</zfs>

Pool information is:

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  pool: Fileserver
 state: ONLINE
status: The pool is formatted using an older on-disk format.  The pool can
	still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Upgrade the pool using 'zpool upgrade'.  Once this is done, the
	pool will no longer be accessible on older software versions.
  scan: none requested
config:

	NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
	Fileserver  ONLINE       0     0     0
	  mirror-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
	    ada2    ONLINE       0     0     0
	    ada3    ONLINE       0     0     0
	  mirror-1  ONLINE       0     0     0
	    ada0    ONLINE       0     0     0
	    ada1    ONLINE       0     0     0

Should I have been able to go from ~1TB to ~1.5TB of storage by adding a 4th drive? If so, is there any likely explanation on what I did wrong? I see from the wiki that there is no optimal configuration for 4 drives.

Considering that I have 4x500GB drives and all my data backed up to an external drive, is there a way to configure my ZFS so that it has more storage? Or is my configuration more suited to raid5?

thanks

[raulfg3]

You actually have 2 mirror, so 1TB is expected, your config have some advantages, one is that You only need 2 disk in mirror to grow in size.


If You want more space, You need raidZ1, using 4 disk, You have 1.5TB usable, please read more about ZFS, search the forum about .ptt powerpoint that explain ZFS.

[fsbruva]

Your old config was raidz1 (which is like original RAID 5), and your new config has two vdev mirrors (kind of like RAID10). You lose a little bit of space, but you have doubled your read speeds!

There is no way to migrate to Raidz from a mirrored config. And, you cannot add new disks to a Raidz vdev.