From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Apr 28 13:23:57 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF279D543F0 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:23:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from outbound.ifdnrg.com (outbound2.ifdnrg.com [193.200.98.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A487B for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:23:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from [192.168.1.13] (38.156-30-62.static.virginmediabusiness.co.uk [62.30.156.38]) (authenticated bits=0) by outbound.ifdnrg.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id v3SDEsqT079787 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:14:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) X-Authentication-Warning: outbound.ifdnrg.com: Host 38.156-30-62.static.virginmediabusiness.co.uk [62.30.156.38] claimed to be [192.168.1.13] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Paul Macdonald Subject: A seperate ZFS question Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:14:58 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:23:57 -0000 I fat fingered adding a cache drive and was unable to remove the SSD cache drive (ada2) I added a 2nd SSD (ada3) for safety as i didn;t want to risk the pool at all and exporting wasn;t feasible in timescale. Can someone explain : what i've actually managed to set up here (!), the ramifications of forceably offlining/removing ada2 and if i should worry when ada2 gets full? capacity operations bandwidth pool alloc free read write read write ------------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zrootnew 692G 460G 15 174 351K 2.40M mirror 683G 237G 14 138 328K 1.43M gpt/zfs0 - - 6 50 155K 1.44M ada1p3 - - 7 50 176K 1.44M ada2 9.17G 223G 0 36 22.9K 989K cache - - - - - - ada3 39.0G 194G 23 5 168K 264K many thanks Paul.