Hey there,
So my idea was to create a RAID 5 with 7 identical SSDs connected thru a USB HUB to a Raspberry Pi 4. The disks SEPARATELY work perfectly and i even managed to make SMB shares of filesystems and/or home directories. Everything works like a charm. Even RAID 10 does what it's supposed to, but it cuts in half the storage, and i don't need that.
The problem comes when i want to group the 7 drives into one RAID 5. Out of the box, the only filesystem that would accept a RAID is BTRFS, but it only gives me the DUP, RAID 0, 1, and 10 options. I've seen some people with an option called "RAID Management" under Storage, but i don't have that option. I tried to install the ZFS plugin and the Linux MD plugin (there's only one of each), but whenever i try to select a device, the list is empty. I've read in A LOT of places that OMV won't recognize a drive if it already has a filesystem in it, or if it already is in a share or so, so that wiping the entire disk should do the trick. I wiped them many times but no luck. It would seem as the plugins are not capable of recognizing the drives entirely.
My installation is: OMV 7.0.5-1 (Sandworm), Kernel Linux 6.6.20+rpt-rpi-v8, Raspberry Pi 4 4GB, 32GB SD, Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit) rev: 2024-03-15, the two plugins + openmediavault-compose + docker repo. I'm gonna continue trying stuff, and i may even delete everything and start from scratch a few more times with different versions, but it would be of great help if you could point me in the right direction. I only need a RAID 5 or RAID-Z1, and that's all. ^___^
Thanks beforehand!