jonp Posted May 22 Posted May 22 Blog post: https://hexos.com/blog/introducing-zfs-anyraid-sponsored-by-eshtek For those that missed it yesterday, AnyRaid was announced on the ZFS Leadership call. This Eshtek-sponsored feature will bring mixed size drive support to OpenZFS. We will be posting a blog about this in more detail soon! Edit: Here's a link to the YouTube video from the ZFS Leadership call. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MifloJFCpLU 9 3
Mawson Posted May 22 Posted May 22 This is AMAZING! Slowly but surely, HexOS will conquer all competing NAS software! "Oh you have X feature? OK, we'll do that, and make it better" 😂 3
Sonic Posted May 22 Posted May 22 This will make a difference for a lot of home users. You can reuse HDDs of different sizes with less constraint. 2
jonp Posted May 22 Author Posted May 22 FYI, blog post on the subject is now up: https://hexos.com/blog/introducing-zfs-anyraid-sponsored-by-eshtek
Sonic Posted May 22 Posted May 22 8 minutes ago, jonp said: FYI, blog post on the subject is now up: https://hexos.com/blog/introducing-zfs-anyraid-sponsored-by-eshtek Very interesting! Do you where I can find more information about how the available space is calculated in AnyRaid Mirror and in AnyRaid Raid Z1?
jonp Posted May 22 Author Posted May 22 1 minute ago, Sonic said: Very interesting! Do you where I can find more information about how the available space is calculated in AnyRaid Mirror and in AnyRaid Raid Z1? The YouTube video goes deep in how space gets allocated, but to be perfectly honest, it's probably still going to be a little difficult for non-storage developers to easily decipher. We'll post another blog in the future with more details on the methods used and how space gets calculated. For now, we just wanted to let people know that this is coming, a basic example of how it differs from the traditional way, and why we sponsored it. 1
Sonic Posted May 22 Posted May 22 I see an opportunity for a HexOs AnyRaid usable storage calculator 😀 2
arvinpw Posted May 22 Posted May 22 That is basically bringing the feature that makes Unraid feasible and great choise to a lot of home user. Mix and match drive. AWESOME 2
TwoStroke Posted May 25 Posted May 25 In the blog post - Does this line: Quote In phase 2, the team aims to add RAID-Z support as well. Mean they will support migration from RAID-Z to AnyRaid? Because I absolutely *love* this feature, and I am already thinking where I can migrate my data to to start changing to this when it comes out... But if there's a planned simple way to migrate, that would be even better!
Krizly Posted May 26 Posted May 26 6 hours ago, TwoStroke said: In the blog post - Does this line: Mean they will support migration from RAID-Z to AnyRaid? Because I absolutely *love* this feature, and I am already thinking where I can migrate my data to to start changing to this when it comes out... But if there's a planned simple way to migrate, that would be even better! Probably not, it'll be that they will support creating a AnyRAID vdev instead of only AnyMirror vdevs. They might support migrating from an AnyMirror to an AnyRAID vdev, considering how the feature works, and re-shuffling the chunks should be feasible. You'd probably need a specific percent of empty space on the array to do that though, if it was a supported operation. There was a comment on reddit from a Klara employee which was a pretty good explanation of the technical side. https://reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/1ktm9zv/introducing_zfs_anyraid/mty9x4j/ 1
TwoStroke Posted May 26 Posted May 26 2 hours ago, Krizly said: Probably not, it'll be that they will support creating a AnyRAID vdev instead of only AnyMirror vdevs. That makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking, I clearly didn't comprehend the AnyRaid-Mirror vs AnyRaid-RAIDZ differences, but have now read it more closely and see what they are saying! 1
ubergeek Posted May 29 Posted May 29 This here is going to help me slide some of these 8tb drives in the array
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