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Creating Provider
Disclaimer
This guide assumes you either have access to a full node over a network connection or are using the same machine as the full node.
Setting up ZFS Without Mirroring
Setting up ZFS allows us to combine multiple drives together, in this case we are merging two drives. We don't recommend you only merge drives with striping and instead we recommend mirroring. However mirroring is a longer process and different for each configuration. In our case, this machine is only running with 24TB across 2 drives. We are less concerned about a drive failing as that would wipe half our storage anyways.
List all drives with :
sudo fdisk -l
You should end up seeing something like this
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Disk /dev/sda: 12.75 TiB, 14000519643136 bytes, 27344764928 sectors
Disk model: ST14000NM001G-2K
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 4DE192A1-7AFF-F64D-93D5-CA48B806DAA0
Disk /dev/sdb: 12.75 TiB, 14000519643136 bytes, 27344764928 sectors
Disk model: ST14000NM001G-2K
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: D2827F71-7F0A-EE4A-BB12-1B2172641DBE
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Note down the Disk paths that you wish to use for your storage provider, in this case it is /dev/sdb and /dev/sda. Now we create a new pool as follows:
sudo zpool create {pool-name} /dev/sdb /dev/sda ...
This folder will now have the drives mounted at /{pool-name}. For more in-depth guides to using zfs, check out this page.