Re: Preparing ZFS drives

2021-01-12 Thread joe mcguckin
Freddie, Thanks! I have to say that this is the most cogent explanation on how to prepare ZFS drives that anyone has ever given me. Thanks again! Joe Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications j...@via.net 650-207-0372 cell 650-213-1302 office 650-969-2124 fax > On Jan 12, 2021, at 10:32 AM, Fre

Re: Preparing ZFS drives

2021-01-12 Thread Alan Somers
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:10 AM joe mcguckin wrote: > Folks, > > I want to buy some 16TB drives and raid them up > > How should I label and prepare the drives for ZFS? Someone ought to write > a ‘cookbook’ on that! > > Do I need to start the volume on a particular sector boundary? > > Are the 4

Re: Preparing ZFS drives

2021-01-12 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > How should I label and prepare the drives for ZFS? Someone ought to write a > ???cookbook??? on that! Basically, what I once did, was this: zpool create bck raidz2 ada2 ada3 ada4 ada5 ada6 ada7 ada8 ada9 Therefore: raw disks, nothing else. > Do I need to start the volume on a particula

Re: Preparing ZFS drives

2021-01-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:10 AM joe mcguckin wrote: > Folks, > > I want to buy some 16TB drives and raid them up > > How should I label and prepare the drives for ZFS? Someone ought to write > a ‘cookbook’ on that! > If these drives will be strictly data drives (not booting from them), partiti

Preparing ZFS drives

2021-01-12 Thread joe mcguckin
Folks, I want to buy some 16TB drives and raid them up How should I label and prepare the drives for ZFS? Someone ought to write a ‘cookbook’ on that! Do I need to start the volume on a particular sector boundary? Are the 4096 byte sector drives usable? Thanks, Joe Joe McGuckin ViaNet Comm