October 16, 2011
Slightly strange ZFS problem on a FreeBSD 7.3 box recently – booted up to find the ZPOOL degraded complaining about an unavailable drive – but yet still reading and writing to it. The error message was; One or more devices could not be used because the label is missing… [...]
June 18, 2011
Recently the drive containing the operating system for my home NAS server died (thats 2 drives in 2 months !) and so I thought it was a good opportunity to upgrade to the new (few months old) FreeNAS v8 – it lasted less than 24 hours because its just not… [...]
April 29, 2011
I recently suffered a failure of one drive in a mirrored pair attached to a ZFS zpool and have had to replace it, I decided to take this oppurtunity to replace the whole mirror to increase the size available. The restrictions being here that there were no spares running and… [...]
March 30, 2010
I have a computer acting as a NAS server which was running out of disk space in the main pool – this is when the fantastic features of ZFS (a Sun designed file system) came in. Basically with ZFS you create virtual devices from physical devices and assign them to… [...]