On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 18:55 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote: > > > I don't know how far into setting this up, but you might want to > > consider a ZFS mirror instead of the mdadm raid1. > > Bill, > > The 'create' function's been running about 2 hours so far. Now that I've > dug > deep into mdadm (having to redo the array several times due to hdd > failures) > I'm comfortable using it. > > > It could be a little easier to manage. > > Once I get it set up again and it's accepting input from my dirvish > backups, > rather than stuffing / to its gills, I don't expect to need to manage it > unless one of the new WD Red NAS disks fails. > > Thanks for the suggestion, though. I had gotten away from deep dives into > hardware and software over the past few years and I don't mind getting back > to it and learning new things. > . You should start using UUIDs rather than /dev/sd* especially when having the disks hanging outside the actual PC. .... of course they can randomly change letters causing things to go south. I would expect that this would be clear after long mailing list sagas of similar trouble with John's Mediasonic, or whatever the actual disk holding contraption.... -T
