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Duplicating partitions to a larger drive #ZFS #FreeBSD

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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

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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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What will I do with those 2 x 1TB drives?

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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

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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

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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

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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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ETCDIR for sysutils/mqttwarn is not as expected

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I modified my mqttwarn scripts today to ignore some messages. When restarting it, it wouldn’t. No output whatsoever. [20:07 mqtt01 dvl ~] % sudo service mqttwarn restart mqttwarn not running? (check /var/run/mqttwarn/mqttwarn.pid). Starting mqttwarn. [20:07 mqtt01 dvl ~] % sudo ps auwwx | grep warn dvl 4191 0.0 0.0 13836 2408 1 S+J 20:07 0:00.00 grep warn Eventually, I tried running it by hand: [20:08 mqtt01 dvl ~] % sudo /usr/local/bin/mqttwarn Traceback (most

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Compression results

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Let’s tally up. For reference, this is one of a series of posts regarding compression testing on zpools: Experimenting with compression off Experimenting with compression=lz4 Experimenting with compression=zstd Compression results – you are here Samsung-SSD-870 4TB SSD For the Samsung-SSD-870 4TB SSD no compression we had: 2:34 = 154s 2:32 = 152s 2:30 = 150s 3:52 = 238s 4:46 = 286s 4:16 = 256s 4:15 = 255s 4:15 = 255s 4:49 = 289s

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GEOM: nda1: the primary GPT table is corrupt or invalid

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When I destroyed the zpools when I was done with zstd compression testing, these errors appeared in /var/log/messages: You’d be shocked to learn these messages appear when creating a zpool with those devices: [12:21 r730-01 dvl ~/tmp] % sudo zpool create Samsung-SSD-980-PRO-geom-issues mirror /dev/nda1 /dev/nda2 re: Background: these two devices were part of a zpool before I started playing with them. They had partitions on them. Recovery and destroy There may be a

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Experimenting with compression=zstd

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Following on from my previous post where I tested lz4, let’s try compression=zstd. Experimenting with compression off Experimenting with compression=lz4 Experimenting with compression=zstd – you are here Compression results First, we delete the old: [21:19 r730-01 dvl ~/tmp] % sudo zpool destroy Samsung-SSD-870-compression-lz4 [21:19 r730-01 dvl ~/tmp] % sudo zpool destroy Samsung-SSD-980-PRO-compression-lz4 [21:19 r730-01 dvl ~/tmp] % sudo zpool destroy Samsung-SSD-990-EVO-compression-lz4 Then create the new: [21:19 r730-01 dvl ~/tmp] % sudo zpool create

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