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I'm running version 2.1.561. Initially, it did report it as missing with an option to remove it from the pool. In my attempt to fix it, I removed it as an ISCI target from FreeNAS and added it back. I did this several times before giving up. On my last attempt, it disappeared from the pool altogether. It's when I reboot the system that I still get a missing drive error even though it no longer appears in the pool. I'm also getting locked disk errors, which I assume is PrivePool thinking the drive is still there? I've attempted to remeasure several times but it still shows the 3TB as unduplilcated. Often times it sits idle with no activity even though it should be duplicating data. I'm currently running a backup of all the data in the pool. I'm hesitent to make any changes until the backup is complete. As soon as that's done I will turn on file system logging and do a reset of DrivePool.

I'm having a bit of a problem with StableBit Drivepool. Over the weekend, I lost a drive. It was a part of a 10 drive pool and it was connected via ISCSI from a FreeNAS server. After several attempts to recover the drive I eventually just physically removed it from the FreeNAS server. At some point it removed itself from the list of Disks. Most of the data was duplicated so I wasn't too concerned. However it never allowed me to officially remove the disk. I'm showing over 3 TB's of data that is unduplicated. StableBit drivepool won't duplicate it after several days. When it's restarted it tells me there is a drive missing but I have no way of removing it from the pool because it's not showing up. At this point I'm at a loss on what to do next. I can't add the drive back and I can't remove it from the pool. I'm at risk with 3 TB's of data that isn't duplicated. What next?

I tried using the search function but came up a bit short. So I thought I would ask my question here. Is there a definitive guide somewhere for installing Drivepool in a VM environment? I have ESXi running on an older box with 4 2TB SATA drives installed. Here is how I assume I need to install Drivepool. In order to add 6TB to a pool (3 2TB Drives) I assume I need to create each disk as a datastore and then create virtual drives completely filling up the datastores. Those virtual drives would then represent the 3 physical disks. I could then add all 3 virtual drives to a datapool. I then plan on adding 4 more USB drives bringing my Drivepool total up to about 20TB. I plan on using file duplication which would bring my available storage to about 10TB. Does this sound like the correct way to set this up? Thanks for the help. I literally just discovered Drivepool yesterday so I'm way behind the learning curve.