Ability to Import Existing ZFS Pool

[Technodabbler]

Hi HexOS,

There has been a lot of talk about being able to import existing ZFS pools from existing TrueNas setup. However I run a ZFS pool from Debian 11, and I would like to carry over the pool without having to re-create it. When your team does work on the import existing ZFS pool, I would greatly appreciate it if it was generic to any Linux-created ZFS pool, and not specific to existing TrueNas installs.

Thanks,

Technodabbler

[thellamafarm]

I need this too asap

[IdMah]

Even older -  Nas4Free. 11.1.0.4 - Atomics (revision 5579) on  FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p10 #0 r333737M: Thu May 17 18:40:17 CEST 2018  On a Supermicro X10SL7-F

Would love to be able to import my previous pools in this! 

[marvin.the.robot]

Agree this is needed in future revisions.

As well as some custom zpool configurations on the first time setup.

In the mean time, there may be a work around if you install and complete the first time setup on some spare drives, then power off the server, install the drives with a zpool on it and power up the server. Some people have found it will detect the existing pool's.

Edited December 3, 2024 by marvin.the.robot

[Linx.999]

On 12/1/2024 at 12:11 PM, Technodabbler said:

Hi HexOS,

There has been a lot of talk about being able to import existing ZFS pools from existing TrueNas setup. However I run a ZFS pool from Debian 11, and I would like to carry over the pool without having to re-create it. When your team does work on the import existing ZFS pool, I would greatly appreciate it if it was generic to any Linux-created ZFS pool, and not specific to existing TrueNas installs.

Thanks,

Technodabbler

I ended up just exporting my pools on my old Truenas Scale Server and then just using the Truenas Scale ui on Hexos to import them. Obv different configurations  will have different results

[AphexCloud]

this would go a long way to making hexos more user accessable