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    When disabling CSM (Compatibility Support Module) Proxmox won't boot

    Hi guys, Nowadays I usually boot with CSM (Compatibility Support Module) on via Legacy mode. However I would like to boot using UEFI mode so when I turn of CSM and boot it will throw me into initramfs and throw me an error. The error is "Cannot import 'rpool' unsupported version or feature"...
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    What now? - Please avoid using zpool upgrade on the "rpool" (root pool) itself, when upgrading to ZFS 2.0

    In the Proxmox VE 6.4 release notes known issues section it says: Please avoid using zpool upgrade on the "rpool" (root pool) itself, when upgrading to ZFS 2.0 on a system booted by GRUB in legacy mode, as that will break pool import by GRUB. ZFS 2.0.4 is also available in 6.3-6 which I'm...
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    cannot import 'rpool': one or more devices is currently unavailable

    I am absurdly beginner who just use proxmox to create 4 or 5 VMs to use in my ISP. Today, my system just stoped and now i'm just stuck at initramfs. I've tried all solutions i found in this forum and no one worked. I dont have any idea how to proceed if this system just don't start anymore...
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    ZFS disk device shows but unaible to add to volume

    When i check 'disks' under 'storage view' it shows the nvme 1TB i have installed, next it it says usage ZFS. When i click on 'ZFS' just below 'disks' there is a single pool named rpool which does not include the 1TB nvme, i see no way how to add it to this pool. please assist
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    [SOLVED] rpool import issue - recovery after power failure

    This morning we had some power outage issue on our server room, all nodes recovered except one. This node is part of (one of three) ceph cluster , (pools are set to replication 3) so the data is safe and the cluster is stable, (excluding ceph warning) Any idea how i can fix it?
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    ZFS mirrored rpool disk ID changed, cannot zpool replace

    For my rpool, I have two mirrored NVME SSDs added by-id. However, it seems that one of the ids has changed for some reason, and I am now showing degradation of my rpool: root@Skywalker:/dev/disk/by-id# zpool status -x pool: rpool state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices could not be used...
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    Boot & VM data on same zpool or seperate?

    Hello, I'm wondering what the proxmox teams recommendations are for ZFS. I see proxmox now support UEFI boot and supposedly rpool supports all ZFS feature flags in this configuration. During installation of Proxmox the "rpool" is generated. The ROOT is there for booting. And rpool/data is...
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    [SOLVED] Native encryption of zfs root possible?

    Hi, for various reasons I prefer my data to be encrypted on disks. Until now I used a zfs on luks setup. Which worked pretty good, but had its quirks and some other drawbacks. So I was really happy to see zfs native encryption and its support with Proxmox 6 (Thanks for that!). To have my VMs...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox 6 EFI Boot ZFS Rpool Race to Import Fail

    Hey all, Running into some problems getting the system to work properly now that release is out and I want to make a ZFS Mirror instead of just a single drive. For clarity, the system showed no issue booting using ext4 or xfs on NVME or SATA SSDs (if used by themselves) but now that I'm...
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    Another HPE Microserver Gen8 GRUB rescue thread

    Hello there, I've dumped my reliable XPEnology setup for the sake of being more flexible (and legally compliant) with Proxmox and I'm slowly starting to regret it. I hope I can get it fixed with your help though... Here's what I've got and what I have tried: * Proxmox 5.3-2 installed via USB...
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    Restore VM with existing Logical volume ?

    Hi, After a big storm my two SSD RAID 1 crash (one dead ans one with too many bad sector) ... I'm not realy lucky ... I have replace the both SSD and re install proxmox RAID 1. My raid 5 is OK and after install mdadm all my VG/LV are ok and active. My question : How I could retore my VM with...
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    Use rpool as a ZFS

    Is it possible to use rpool/ROOT/pve-1,rpool/ROOT,rpool as a ZFS? cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg dir: local path /var/lib/vz content iso,images,rootdir,vztmpl maxfiles 0 dir: zpool-big path /zpool-big content backup,vztmpl,iso,rootdir,images...
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    Struggling with ZFS - and migration...

    Need some advice regarding a simple and probably silly question. All of my systems have a small SSD as the system disk and a secondary single larger SSD for VM's. If I destroy the rpool which is created by default and recreate it on /dev/sdb will I screw anything up? 2nd SSD is ZFS. I basically...
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    ZFS Disk replacement

    Hi All, We've had a disk fail in our ZFS rpool, were looking for the procedure to replace the disk. So far we've found a couple of wiki's however, I thought i'd run it by you guys and see if its still correct. We are running Proxmox VE 4.4. 1) Replace the physical failed/offline drive...
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    Root on ZFS using /dev/sdX device names?

    Hey all, I installed Proxmox to a mirrored pair of SSD's quite a while ago. I noticed almost immediately that the resultant rpool used old fashioned linux device names: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0...
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    2 Different PVE Versions; 2 Different File Systems on 2 Different Drives, But Same PVE Failures

    4 months ago I installed PVE v4.4 on an eXT4 filesystem SSD. I put about 10 different containers on it and was the only user. I didn't use ceph or HA, and I had no other clusters--it was just one node with about 10 different LXCs. All containers were under 50% usage in their allotted storage...
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    [SOLVED] zfs: cannot import rpool after reboot

    Hey guys! Did an update last night: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade after that, ZFS wanted a zpool upgrade -a which required a reboot. But after the reboot, i was stuck at busybox: i tried: zpool import -c /etc/zfs/zpool.cache -N rpool exit and it worked. Than i performed the zpool...
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    ZFS pool not showing correct usage

    Hi, We are running a new install of Proxmox VE 4.3-12 Our configuration is Dual E5-2630v4 w/ 256GB RAM & 8 x Samsung PM863a Drives. We did our install using the Proxmox 4.3 ISO installer and completed a RAID Z+2 Configuration with our 8 Drives and all seem to go smoothly. We've found some...
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    [SOLVED] Unable to boot from ZFS rpool after upgrading to PVE 4.2

    Dear Proxmox community, Dear Proxmox support team, Today I upgraded to PVE 4.2 and I'm now having boot issues because of device mappings mismatch. I have installed the root file system on ZFS during the initial installation back in 2015. Now, when trying to boot the PVE I receive: Message...

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