Posts tagged: zfs

In the fall of 2022 I turned off Zeta, my file server, due to the extreme price of electricity. I migrated all the data to a 3x18 TB raidz1 pool on Alpha instead. But last year I brought it back — and …

It’s time for another ZFS pool expansion. When I last expanded; I doubled the capacity of my 2nd vdev — going from 16 TB to 32 TB raw capacity. This time I’m doubling again — replacing the last …

A few days ago; sitting outside — drinking coffee and minding my own business, I received an email from my UPS: Utility power not available. 2021/06/01 18:38:27 My homelab had lost both power sources …

I moved my main hypervisor, Alpha, into a new server case; a compact Inter-Tech with 8 hot-swappable bays in the front. I also moved the four SSDs over from the failed ZFS SSD pool project, and this …

This post was suppose to be a “look I made an SSD ZFS pool”, but will instead be the first post in a trouble-shooting series. Trying to get my SSDs to behave. But — I am getting ahead of myself… Let’s …

I recently had a couple of 2 TB drives to spare, and thought I would put them to good use as a ZFS mirror on my Arch Linux desktop.

I’m replacing a disk and and expanding my ZFS 2×RAID-Z2 pool 👇

My file server, Zeta, has an mdadm RAID6 array with eight 4 TB disks. I want to expand, but before doing so I’m going to migrate to ZFS.