I’ve previously been a FreeNAS user but decided to move over to Ubuntu.
I want to use ZFS on linux to keep the data integrity and performance ZFS offers, but I’ll gain access to a greater variety of apps (docker, snaps, .deb and everything in the repos).
I’ve just done a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.1 and added the ZFS package:
sudo apt install zfsutils-linux
I can see my two test pools I created in FreeNAS in the CLI:
max@Ubuntu-Server:~$ zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
test1t 2.36G 897G 2.36G /test1t
test2 7.51G 438G 7.51G /test2
max@Ubuntu-Server:~$ zpool list
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
test1t 928G 2.36G 926G - 0% 0% 1.00x ONLINE -
test2 460G 7.51G 452G - 0% 1% 1.00x ONLINE -
max@Ubuntu-Server:~$ zpool status
pool: test1t
state: ONLINE
status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can
still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using ‘zpool upgrade’. Once this is done,
the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
the features. See zpool-features(5) for details.
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
test1t ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
sdb ONLINE 0 0 0
sda ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
pool: test2
state: ONLINE
status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can
still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using ‘zpool upgrade’. Once this is done,
the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
the features. See zpool-features(5) for details.
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
test2 ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
sdc ONLINE 0 0 0
sdd ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
Everything looks fine but then if I open the Files app I see multiple drives available rather than the 2 pools i was expecting. Also if I try to open them i get the following error:
Unable to access location. Error mounting /dev/sdd2 at /Media/max/test2: unknown filesystem type ‘zfs_member’.
Any idea what I’m missing here?
I have tried google and random commands i can find (using these spare disks so it doesn’t matter is i do something wrong) and i cant get it to work.
Thanks for any help.