Sad limitation, cloned PoolPart drive to another drive, can't add the new drive to the pool? (root file system mismatch)

[mzlink]

Hello.

I had a pool of 5 drives, but one of the drives was starting to show degraded performance so it was copied to a new drive. It's supposed to be NTFS but the new drive was accidentally formatted to use exFAT.

I can't add the 5th poolpart back into the pool. The application pretends the drive doesn't exist which is really frustrating as rebuilding a pool takes a long time (2TB WD Red's)

I would like to know where the problem lies. Is it the exFAT itself or the odd mixture of file systems? (4 drives NTFS, one exFAT)

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Unfortunately, exFAT isn't supported by StableBit DrivePool, and the drive needs to be formatted as NTFS. 

You'd need to clear off all of the data on the drive in question, and reformat it as NTFS.  

Once you've done so, it should immediately show up in the pool.  

 

Also, mixed file systems aren't permitted by default.  Differences in support can/would cause issues without essentially created a new file system type to handle that. 

[mzlink]

I'd rather see a warning in the software about the problem than having the issue hidden like this.