SATADOM smartctl details SATADOM-ML 3MG2-P
These are the two SATADOM devices I’m using in a series of recent blog posts. In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 smartmontools-7.5
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Moving a zpool to larger drives #ZFS #FreeBSD
It is a rainy Wednesday morning and I’m drinking a cappuccino in my favorite cafe. A five minute walk from here, in the basement of an 1890 Victorian twin house, sits r730-04. Last weekend, I configured it to boot from two SATADOM drives. Today, I’ll move that zpool to a pair of larger drives. I’ve done that move before and it is a common procedure for increasing zpool capacity. Later today, I’ll move
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Duplicating partitions to a larger drive #ZFS #FreeBSD
As I was writing a different blog post, I came across this interesting situation. I couldn’t create the same partition layout on the new drive. This is the existing drive: root@r730-04:~ # gpart show ada0 => 40 242255584 ada0 GPT (116G) 40 532480 1 efi (260M) 532520 2008 – free – (1.0M) 534528 16777216 2 freebsd-swap (8.0G) 17311744 224942080 3 freebsd-zfs (107G) 242253824 1800 – free – (900K) root@r730-04:~ # I started to
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Using SATADOM drives in a Dell R730
A recent goal is to increase the available storage space in my main development server in the basement. To that end, two recent posts: r730-01: the drive replacement plan r730-01: storage plan The SATADOM devices I purchased are meant to be plugged directly into the M/B of the server. This approach will free up two PCIe slots which were hosting 2x 2.5″ SSDs in a hot-swap adaptor (the post mentions a Dell R720;
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PostgreSQL: MD5 password support is deprecated – updating the user passwords
Eight years ago, PostgreSQL introduced scram-sha-256 hashes for passwords. Eleven months ago, MD5 was deprecated. Yesterday, I got caught up with all this. Some of this post will deal with how I fixed it, but mostly it is documenting (for myself) what I did. The fix covers several services and takes place over multiple days. First, some background on why this change has come into focus for me. I have a FreeBSD jail
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r730-01: storage plan
Following on from What will I do with those 2 x 1TB drives?, I received a fantastic suggestion from Mike Gerdts. Do more bifurcation. Buy an ASUS HYPER M.2 X16 GEN 4 CARD and put 4x NVMe devices on each one. I can be adding 8 more storage devices to the chassis. I see posts from people using this card in a Dell R730xd – The host in question is a Dell R730.
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What will I do with those 2 x 1TB drives?
During zfs: setting compression and adding new vdevs I replace 2x 1TB drives with 2x 4TB drives. This afternoon as I was taking laundry down to the basement, I realized: I have two unused drives in the host. Either I remove them or I repurpose them. I know I have 4x 1TB drives (two SSDs and two NVMe). I could make a 2TB mirror out of them. Where can I use them? r730-03
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zfs: setting compression and adding new vdevs
If you read my recent posts, I’m replacing an existing zpool with new devices. At first, I went to copy the old zpool to a new zpool. I then decided instead of copying, to replace. I’m also going to see about compression. I’m sure it won’t take effect, because replace is a block-by-block copy, or so I think. We’ll confirm. Before Here is the zpool, really, just the top-level filesystem. Notice how compression
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Moving a zpool to new devices – after the syncoid copy – oh wait, zfs replace
This morning, as I was typing the subject of this blog post, I realized I don’t have to do this copying. The new devices are staying in this host. It is better for me to add the new devices to the zpool and remove the old devices. That is so much easier. The existing zpool can stay in use and there is no interruption in service. NOTE: after publishing this entry, I realized
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Creating the new zpools
I have 4 new storage devices to create 2 new zpools, each a two-vdev mirror. Let’s go. In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 These are the drives I have. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. The 4TB NVMe cards are Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD 4TB, PCIe Gen 4×4 | Gen 5×2 M.2 The 4TB SSDs are SAMSUNG 870 EVO 4TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-77E4T0B/AM) The new data02
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