AnyRaid release

[Kieran Howard]

Hi,

 

I have a couple of questions about AnyRaid:

 

1. Is it released yet? I have seen a few things saying that it is, but the documentation for HexOS makes no mention of it and still says that you need to use the same sized drives, otherwise you are limitted by the size of the smallest (https://docs.hexos.com/articles/selectingDrives.html#drive-sizing)
2. If it is not released would it be possible to start now with a regular Raid-Z pool and then change the RAID type to be AnyRaid?

 

I currently have an old Synology Nas with 4x4TB drives that I want to upgrade. So my current plan is to build a custom NAS with HexOS and a few 6TB drives (they are currently cheaper than 4TB drives...), copy everything from the old NAS and then, ideally, just add in my existing 4TB to increase the pool size one everything is coppied off them.

 

If it's not possible then what would you suggest? Starting with a pool of 6TB drives, then when AnyRaid is fully released make a pool out of the 4TB drives, re-copy things back and then add the 6TB drives to that pool? Seems like a lot of copying...

[mill3000]

AnyRaid is not released yet. When it gets released by the ZFS people it has to be adopted first into TrueNas. So just a guess is that it probably won't be here till next year. There won't be a way to convert to it. You have to start from scratch so you'd have to copy off all the data from your existing system to something and then format the drives as AnyRaid. Then copy the data back over. 

Thanks