Tag: zfs

pfSense – Replacing a failed ZFS Disk

by on May.04, 2023, under Miscellaneous

There be badness here! (ZFS mirror degraded)

While the future of pfSenseCE and pfSense+ are still very much in the air, it at least brought us the option to use ZFS mirroring for hardware redundancy. Good news is that it works well, I didn’t even know the drive had failed for several months until I had to powercycle the router and heard the click of death. Bad news, it’s not really adequately documented anywhere how to do this and it’s not for the faint of heart!

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