Greg Freemyer wrote:
I tried to create a iSCSI volume, then mount if from openSUSE 42.2. Creating it was easy.
No success on the openSUSE end, but that might be operator error since I don't know what I'm doing.
It's fairly straight forward. You point your openSUSE client to the iscsi target (Drobo), then you look up what's being offered and connect to it.
I ordered a second 10TB drive last week. I also pulled out one of the 1TB drives to leave a empty drive bay for the 10TB. It took about 12 hours to rebuild then.
Interesting that it rebuilds when a disk has been removed.
A few minutes ago I popped the new (second) 10 TB drive in. It took a couple minutes, then the overall status of the Drobo showed the extra capacity and the all drives were green.
I went ahead and pulled out another 1TB drive to make room for the next 10TB drive install. The Drobo is reporting 24 hours to do the rebuild this time. I'm very surprised. I still only have about 3TB of data on the array.
In a few years when those drives start to fail, I would be lying awake at night worrying about those 24 hours running degraded.
With such long rebuild times, it would be nice if the unit had a "migrate data" feature that allowed the data to be migrated off of a drive without creating a day long window of vulnerability. If it has that, I missed it.
If it has it, it ought to be invoked automatically I would say. It's first and foremost priority should be to reduce the time in degraded mode. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org