# Stratis Pools Stratis
- Red Hat 8 introduced Stratis volume management - Uses thin provisioning (starts with 546Mb) - Combines LVM and filesystems onto one system - Stratis automatically extends the filesystem if space is available
dnf install stratis-cli stratisd Install stratis and daemon
systemctl enable/start stratisd Enable and start the daemon
lsblk -f
stratis pool list
stratis filesystem list
Creating a Two-Disk Stratis Pool and Filesystem
insert two new 5GB disks
stratis pool create pool1 /dev/sde create stratis pool
stratis pool add-data pool1 /dev/sdf extend stratis pool to another disk
stratis filesystem create pool1 fs1 create stratis filesystem
mkdir /bigdata
mount /dev/stratis/pool1/fs1 /bigdata
stratis filesystem snapshot pool1 fs1 fs1-snap create a snapshot
nano /etc/fstab … UUID=a6dca899-feab-4663-8028-fe6ce748d268 /bigdata xfs defaults,x-systemd.requires=stratisd.service 0 0 tells fstab to not mount this filesystem unless the system starts stratisd daemon (UUID of the filesystem)