I haven’t tested this yet, but I’ve installed the hardware. The real test will come after a reboot and actual use of the new drives.
NOTE: Although this claims to be creating a new ZIL (SLOG) do not believe it. In fact, stop reading right here. There is nothing of use below.
What will they be used for?
These drives are intended for ZIL (the ZFS Intent Log). This can speed up writes. These are 30GB HDD, rather inexpensive. They might also be useful for my PostgreSQL database. It could even host parts of my development environment.
I added two new SSD to a server which has been running for nearly two years. Here is how I did that.
I am using FreeBSD 9 and the disks are ada0 and ada1.
Create the partitions
In this case, I am using all the disk, because they will be used exclusively for storage, and will not be bootable.
# gpart create -s GPT ada0 ada0 created # gpart create -s GPT ada1 ada1 created # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l ssd0 ada0 ada0p1 added # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l ssd1 ada1 ada1p1 added
This labeled each device as ssd0 and ssd1. Those labels are used in the next step.
Creating the zpool
# zpool create -f ssd mirror /dev/gpt/ssd0 /dev/gpt/ssd1
And here we are:
# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT ssd 29.8G 95K 29.7G 0% 1.00x ONLINE - system 16.2T 5.16T 11.1T 31% 1.00x ONLINE -
What’s the status?
# zpool status
pool: ssd
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
ssd ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/ssd0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/ssd1 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
pool: system
state: ONLINE
status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can
still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
scan: scrub in progress since Thu Dec 25 04:16:06 2014
3.33T scanned out of 5.14T at 86.8M/s, 6h4m to go
0 repaired, 64.84% done
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
system ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/disk0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/disk1 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/disk2 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/disk3 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/disk4 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/disk5 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
That status message refers to the existing zpool and the next post will deal with that upgrade.
The scrub is coincidentally and not related to recent actions.
