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TrueNAS - Disks - Add a Second Disk to an Existing Pool in Mirror Configuration (RAID1)

The Plan

There is currently a single disk /dev/ada1 attached to the system.

  • This disk is used for the ZFS storage pool called Pool1.

We have a second disk /dev/da0 that we want to mirror the Pool1 pool to it.


Check the status of the existing storage pool

zpool status Pool1

returns:

  pool: Pool1
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:
 
	NAME                                          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
	Pool1                                         ONLINE       0     0     0
	  gptid/c15c2ee5-7070-4fe6-b33a-4c7a190cba02  ONLINE       0     0     0

NOTE: Take a note of the gptid of the existing disk.


Format the new drive as gpt

gpart destroy -F /dev/da0
gpart create -s gpt /dev/da0

Create a swap partition on the new drive

gpart add -b 128 -t freebsd-swap -s 2G /dev/da0

Create a ZFS partition

gpart add -t freebsd-zfs /dev/da0

List the partitions

gpart list
 
[...output truncated...]
 
Geom name: ada1
modified: false
state: OK
fwheads: 16
fwsectors: 63
last: 625142407
first: 40
entries: 128
scheme: GPT
Providers:
1. Name: ada1p1
   Mediasize: 2147483648 (2.0G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 0
   Stripeoffset: 65536
   Mode: r1w1e1
   efimedia: HD(1,GPT,1bdd7438-fd7d-49ff-b0df-0747548b5a0f,0x80,0x400000)
   rawuuid: 1bdd7438-fd7d-49ff-b0df-0747548b5a0f
   rawtype: 412e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
   label: (null)
   length: 2147483648
   offset: 65536
   type: freebsd-swap
   index: 1
   end: 4194431
   start: 128
2. Name: ada1p2
   Mediasize: 317925363712 (296G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 0
   Stripeoffset: 2147549184
   Mode: r1w1e2
   efimedia: HD(2,GPT,c15c2ee5-7070-4fe6-b33a-4c7a190cba02,0x400080,0x2502ea08)
   rawuuid: c15c2ee5-7070-4fe6-b33a-4c7a190cba02
   rawtype: 412e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
   label: (null)
   length: 317925363712
   offset: 2147549184
   type: freebsd-zfs
   index: 2
   end: 625142407
   start: 4194432
Consumers:
1. Name: ada1
   Mediasize: 320072933376 (298G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r2w2e5
 
 
Geom name: da0
modified: false
state: OK
fwheads: 255
fwsectors: 63
last: 625142407
first: 40
entries: 128
scheme: GPT
Providers:
1. Name: da0p1
   Mediasize: 2147483648 (2.0G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 0
   Stripeoffset: 65536
   Mode: r0w0e0
   efimedia: HD(1,GPT,1bdd7438-fd7d-49ff-b0df-0747548b5a0f,0x80,0x400000)
   rawuuid: 1bdd7438-fd7d-49ff-b0df-0747548b5a0f
   rawtype: 412e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
   label: (null)
   length: 2147483648
   offset: 65536
   type: freebsd-swap
   index: 1
   end: 4194431
   start: 128
2. Name: da0p2
   Mediasize: 317925363712 (296G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 0
   Stripeoffset: 2147549184
   Mode: r0w0e0
   efimedia: HD(2,GPT,c15c2ee5-7070-4fe6-b33a-4c7a190cba02,0x400080,0x2502ea08)
   rawuuid: c15c2ee5-7070-4fe6-b33a-4c7a190cba02
   rawtype: 412e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
   label: (null)
   length: 317925363712
   offset: 2147549184
   type: freebsd-zfs
   index: 2
   end: 625142407
   start: 4194432
Consumers:
1. Name: da0
   Mediasize: 320072932352 (298G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r0w0e0

NOTE: Write down the ID of the new data partition just created (look for rawuuid).

Here, this shows:

  • rawuuid: 1bdd7438-fd7d-49ff-b0df-0747548b5a0f

Attach the new partition to the existing pool, mirroring all data from the old drive to the new one

zpool attach StoragePoolName /dev/gptid/[gptid_of_existing_disk] /dev/gptid/[gptid_of_new_partition]

In our case:

zpool attach Pool1 \
  /dev/gptid/1bdd7438-fd7d-49ff-b0df-0747548b5a0f \
  /dev/gptid/c15c2ee5-7070-4fe6-b33a-4c7a190cba02

NOTE: Depending on the amount of data that needs copying, this process may take some time.


Check the status of the existing storage pool

zpool status Pool1

returns:

pool: Pool1
 state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered.  The pool will
	continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
  scan: resilver in progress since Sat Dec  4 19:29:14 2021
	48.7G scanned at 13.9M/s, 42.2G issued at 12.1M/s, 48.7G total
	37.1G resilvered, 86.67% done, 00:09:10 to go
config:
 
	NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
	Pool1                                           ONLINE       0     0     0
	  mirror-0                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
	    gptid/1bdd7438-fd7d-49ff-b0df-0747548b5a0f  ONLINE       0     0     0
	    gptid/c15c2ee5-7070-4fe6-b33a-4c7a190cba02  ONLINE       0     0     0  (resilvering)
 
errors: No known data errors

NOTE: The Pool has the new disk.

truenas/disks/add_a_second_disk_to_an_existing_pool_in_mirror_configuration_raid1.txt · Last modified: 2023/06/18 21:01 by peter

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