Looking to replace a couple of my drives, and I swear this worked before.
Because the removal process locks the pool to read-only, and can take hours (at least in my case it has taken hours), I was previously using the Disk Usage Limiter balancer, and de-selecting Duplicated and Unduplicated for the drives that are being replaced. That would move the data off the drive(s), then the actual removal process would only take a few minutes.
Currently though, the balancer settings are not being applied.
I was on 2.2.0 something, so went ahead and upgraded to the latest release; 2.2.2.934.
Still, de-selecting Duplicated and Unduplicated for the 2 disks, data is not being moved off those drives even after manually starting another rebalance.
The GUI does report "New file placement limit (0.0%)" for both disks.
Though "Duplicated target for rebalancing" shows -11kb and -37kb (not sure what this actually means though, notation is at the end of the percentage bar)
Is there a more efficient way to evacuate data off specific disks prior to replacement, so that the pool doesn't get locked in read-only state for hours on end?
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Looking to replace a couple of my drives, and I swear this worked before.
Because the removal process locks the pool to read-only, and can take hours (at least in my case it has taken hours), I was previously using the Disk Usage Limiter balancer, and de-selecting Duplicated and Unduplicated for the drives that are being replaced. That would move the data off the drive(s), then the actual removal process would only take a few minutes.
Currently though, the balancer settings are not being applied.
I was on 2.2.0 something, so went ahead and upgraded to the latest release; 2.2.2.934.
Still, de-selecting Duplicated and Unduplicated for the 2 disks, data is not being moved off those drives even after manually starting another rebalance.
The GUI does report "New file placement limit (0.0%)" for both disks.
Though "Duplicated target for rebalancing" shows -11kb and -37kb (not sure what this actually means though, notation is at the end of the percentage bar)
Is there a more efficient way to evacuate data off specific disks prior to replacement, so that the pool doesn't get locked in read-only state for hours on end?
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