I have two external 4TB usb drives that I wanted to use as a storage pool. I installed PM 6.1 using the standard method with LVM layout. I see there is a way to do an install with ZFS, but I thought I would go with the default. On the other hand, I thought that I would create a zpool using the two external drives since that is usually my go to method of doing with storage. Would it be better to just create a LVM pool or go with zfs?
Using external drives
- Thread starter kcallis
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LVM and ZFS are very different. For example, LVM is block level while ZFS is file level. Have you seen the comparison of storage types on our wiki?
I think before I become concerned with whether I use LVM or ZFS, I really need to understand why I can't utilize the drives although proxmox sees the drives. When I look at the Disks, it see the drives but sees then as partitions. What should I need to do so that PM sees them as devices that then I can create them as LVM devices or (if I am so inclined) ZFS devices?
delete all the partitions on your external disks, and afterwards you should be able to see them as devices on the GUI: Node -> Disks -> LVM/ZFS -> Create -> choose your empty disk