<div dir="ltr">I've been quite happy with OpenMediaVault on a Raspi 4, which I use mainly for daily backup, but also a little for streaming. I switched about three years ago after deciding to retire the very old WD My Book (after replacing the drive twice.) I've been using simple filesystems for all my data, and using rsnapshot to backup onto OMV every night. I use smartmon to alert me about HDD errors figuring I can replace early if needed.<div><br><div>It may seem unwise to some, but I chose not to go with RAID because downtime doesn't cost me much and I figure I could be back up on a new drive in the main server in less than a day for the important things and another day for the sundries. So rather than put money and time in up front, my gamble of doing it later has worked out well so far.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 11:21 AM Doug Moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org">doug@moens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> This functionality is reportedly "coming soon", ...<br>
<br>
Wow, I didn't realize that RAIDZ Expansion is *still* coming soon.<br>
* In June 2021, Ars Technica announced that "Matthew Ahrens opened a pull request last week" and that "RAIDz expansion will be a thing very soon".<br>
* In November 2023, Phoronix announced that the PR was merged into master. <<a href="https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15022" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15022</a>><br>
<br>
More discussion in <<a href="https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/15232" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/15232</a>><br>
* Sep 8 2024: Yes, special thank you to everybody on the OpenZFS side who helped get this one over the finish line. We've got this in our TrueNAS 24.10 BETA1 release already for testing, anticipating updating to OpenZFS 2.3 as soon as it is tagged.<br>
<br>
So we can update the ETA to Very Soon.<br>
<br>
>From Chris Irwin,<br>
> I'm using 4x 8TB CMR NAS drives, and went for RAIDz1, which is kinda <br>
> like ZFS's version of RAID5 -- so n-1 drives worth of storage.<br>
><br>
> That gives me 21.01TiB (8TB drives actually 7.28 TiB) of storage.<br>
<br>
I read something concerning in the final discussion page I linked to.<br>
@yorickdowne said<br>
> Raidz1 with larger drives has a tendency to break during resilver.<br>
> With 14TB disks raidz-1 is risky when rebuilding. I recommend you do a 4-wide raidz2, which you can then expand later if desired.<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
kwlug-disc mailing list<br>
To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org</a><br>
with the subject "unsubscribe", or email<br>
<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org</a> to contact a human being.<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>John Van Ostrand<br></div><div>At large on sabbatical<br></div><br></div></div>