Linwood Ferguson
Cadet
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2016
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- 8
New to Freenas, installed 9.10 (on real hardware this time, if you read my HyperV story).
Install was easy, everything recognized, up and running fine as far as I know. Actually scary sort of easy, I keep wondering what I missed. Anyway...
In experimenting I got tangled up between shares and datasets (the wizard not helping as it did both I think), and now do not understand what I have.
First issue is I would try deleting the dataset, it would warn all files would be deleted, then would refresh the screen and still be there. No error (console messages are on), just nothing happened.
Deleted the share - worked, share gone. Deleted the dataset - no error, but no delete.
So I went into shell and deleted all files in the folder (based on posts indicating that may be an issue, despite the warning it would delete the files), deleted from gui again... got a in use error. Hmmm... different.
Rebooted (I couldn't find a way to see if some client was accessing a share), deleted again - worked this time.
Question #1: Is this right? Have to delete the data manually before deleting at dataset?
Created a new share (LEF_Dataset), then a share (GS_LEF). All OK, except in creating the CIFS share, browsing the path, there's an extraneous name there (dataset? Share?) LEF_BACKUP_T. This was a share I tried to create earlier with the wizard that would never appear correctly for some reason. I did not think it existed. See attached screen shot showing the view volumes plus the browse on create cifs share.
It does not appear under view CIFS. It does not appear as a dataset.
Question #2: What is it? I'm assuming a zombie dataset that the GUI thinks exists but isn't?
Note that df -h does not show it at all, it shows only the LEF_Dataset (as expected). No share is visible from windows.
Question #3: How do I make it go away properly? And related -- any idea what I could have done to get it to exist (but not really exist)?
I am trying hard to do everything from the GUI as I read some indications that doing stuff in the command line is bad in FreeNAS (discomforting for someone fairly old school). The only thing I've done from the command line other than look was to remove the files under the original dataset so I could delete it.
Question #4: Is that indeed the right approach -- let the GUI do it all? Or is it like most unix systems, more cleanly managed from the command line?
Install was easy, everything recognized, up and running fine as far as I know. Actually scary sort of easy, I keep wondering what I missed. Anyway...
In experimenting I got tangled up between shares and datasets (the wizard not helping as it did both I think), and now do not understand what I have.
First issue is I would try deleting the dataset, it would warn all files would be deleted, then would refresh the screen and still be there. No error (console messages are on), just nothing happened.
Deleted the share - worked, share gone. Deleted the dataset - no error, but no delete.
So I went into shell and deleted all files in the folder (based on posts indicating that may be an issue, despite the warning it would delete the files), deleted from gui again... got a in use error. Hmmm... different.
Rebooted (I couldn't find a way to see if some client was accessing a share), deleted again - worked this time.
Question #1: Is this right? Have to delete the data manually before deleting at dataset?
Created a new share (LEF_Dataset), then a share (GS_LEF). All OK, except in creating the CIFS share, browsing the path, there's an extraneous name there (dataset? Share?) LEF_BACKUP_T. This was a share I tried to create earlier with the wizard that would never appear correctly for some reason. I did not think it existed. See attached screen shot showing the view volumes plus the browse on create cifs share.
It does not appear under view CIFS. It does not appear as a dataset.
Question #2: What is it? I'm assuming a zombie dataset that the GUI thinks exists but isn't?
Note that df -h does not show it at all, it shows only the LEF_Dataset (as expected). No share is visible from windows.
Question #3: How do I make it go away properly? And related -- any idea what I could have done to get it to exist (but not really exist)?
I am trying hard to do everything from the GUI as I read some indications that doing stuff in the command line is bad in FreeNAS (discomforting for someone fairly old school). The only thing I've done from the command line other than look was to remove the files under the original dataset so I could delete it.
Question #4: Is that indeed the right approach -- let the GUI do it all? Or is it like most unix systems, more cleanly managed from the command line?