Hello,
I run a 3 node cluster running PVE Manager/7.4.13/46c37d9c. Each node has a 500GB Samsung HD connected via USB C comprising a 3 device ZFS pool which has been replicating successfully once I got it working properly. It's been wonderful to see it working in fact.
I made some big mistakes requiring me to rebuild my entire cluster. I erased everything including ZFS devices and started from scratch knowing a I had good backups of all VM's and CT's out on my NFS. The good news is that process was actually really great and quite easy.
Until now where I find myself in a place of tremendous frustration. My VM's and CT's - 14 of them - have all kinds of drive sizes. 64GB, 32GB, etc. Almost none of them use anything close to those totals. Most are 8GB with like 500MB on each.
If I have to restore the entire size of every single image it ruins my entire setup forcing me to buy all new hard drives. Please tell me there's something easy I"m missing.
I have tried fstrim on my Linux VM's. It doesn't help. I tried de frag on my Windows 10 Pro VM. No change. I ran zpool trim on my ZFS. It says my device doesn't support trim.
It's a tremendous amount of work if I have to rebuild all of these from scratch and even then I now have no working backup solution because I can't be forced to restore 10x the space I was occupying.
I have Discard checked on all of these storage devices where the checkbox is present. I've rebooted them multiple times using nfs and zfs as the storage. It does not discard. I don't understand the point of that checkbox.
Please tell me there's something huge and obvious I'm missing here.
I run a 3 node cluster running PVE Manager/7.4.13/46c37d9c. Each node has a 500GB Samsung HD connected via USB C comprising a 3 device ZFS pool which has been replicating successfully once I got it working properly. It's been wonderful to see it working in fact.
I made some big mistakes requiring me to rebuild my entire cluster. I erased everything including ZFS devices and started from scratch knowing a I had good backups of all VM's and CT's out on my NFS. The good news is that process was actually really great and quite easy.
Until now where I find myself in a place of tremendous frustration. My VM's and CT's - 14 of them - have all kinds of drive sizes. 64GB, 32GB, etc. Almost none of them use anything close to those totals. Most are 8GB with like 500MB on each.
If I have to restore the entire size of every single image it ruins my entire setup forcing me to buy all new hard drives. Please tell me there's something easy I"m missing.
I have tried fstrim on my Linux VM's. It doesn't help. I tried de frag on my Windows 10 Pro VM. No change. I ran zpool trim on my ZFS. It says my device doesn't support trim.
It's a tremendous amount of work if I have to rebuild all of these from scratch and even then I now have no working backup solution because I can't be forced to restore 10x the space I was occupying.
I have Discard checked on all of these storage devices where the checkbox is present. I've rebooted them multiple times using nfs and zfs as the storage. It does not discard. I don't understand the point of that checkbox.
Please tell me there's something huge and obvious I'm missing here.