It’s time for another ZFS pool expansion. When I last expanded; I doubled the capacity of my 2nd vdev — going from 16 TB to 32 TB raw capacity. This time I’m doubling again — replacing the last limiting drive, and fully utilizing the all the 8 TB drives 😃
Scheduled S.M.A.R.T. scans
![Scheduled S.M.A.R.T. scans](https://blog.cavelab.dev/2022/02/scheduled-smart-scans/cover_hu09658fd388753ba10dd3899638b3452c_21266_860x0_resize_q80_lanczos_3.png)
I’ve been planning to enable scheduled S.M.A.R.T. scans ever since I built my file server, but it was just one of those things that I never got around to do.
Well — when one of the 8 TB drives suddenly started reporting S.M.A.R.T. errors, the scheduled scans got back on the agenda. So let’s do that now 👇
My ZFS SSD pool seems to be working!
![My ZFS SSD pool seems to be working!](https://blog.cavelab.dev/2021/05/zfs-ssd-pool-working/cover_hub7063020e1b396d9307632f5913f5c23_750474_860x0_resize_q80_lanczos.jpg)
I moved my main hypervisor, Alpha, into a new server case; a compact Inter-Tech with 8 hot-swappable bays in the front.
I also moved the four SSDs over from the failed ZFS SSD pool project, and this time it worked! 😃
My anticlimactic ZFS SSD pool story
![My anticlimactic ZFS SSD pool story](https://blog.cavelab.dev/2021/02/zfs-ssd-pool-problems/cover_hu6ebfe6cb533c94320c312a42f7d470b2_677945_860x0_resize_q80_lanczos.jpg)
This post was suppose to be a “look I made an SSD ZFS pool”, but will instead be the first post in a trouble-shooting series. Trying to get my SSDs to behave.
But — I am getting ahead of myself… Let’s start at the beginning.
Replacing a disk and expanding the ZFS pool
![Replacing a disk and expanding the ZFS pool](https://blog.cavelab.dev/2021/01/zfs-replace-disk-expand-pool/cover_hu45b4d8f9cf7403f713e93f53935cae08_741455_860x0_resize_q80_lanczos.jpg)
I’m replacing a disk and and expanding my ZFS 2×RAID-Z2 pool 👇