So I did a test run on the SuperMicro motherboard and memory using some 1TB drives I have laying around.
I noticed some errors when installing the ZFS plugin on the VM but didn't note them at that time, I also received the following errors when installing it on the physical MB. Anything to worry about?
Building initial module for 4.9.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
configure: error:
*** Please make sure the kmod spl devel <kernel> package for your
*** distribution is installed then try again. If that fails you
*** can specify the location of the spl objects with the
*** '--with-spl-obj=PATH' option.
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.9.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (x86_64)
Then several lines down..
cp: cannot stat '/var/lib/dkms/spl/0.6.5.9/build/spl_config.h': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/var/lib/dkms/spl/0.6.5.9/build/module/Module.symvers': No such file or directory
It appears to work, I have 5 drives setup as a Raid-Z1 VDEV on pool1.
I also noticed that even though I have ZFS setup using all the drives they still show up as available when you click on "Create File System". Why?
Would there be any reason to turn S.M.A.R.T. on or would that interfere with ZFS?
Dave