TheBlueRaja
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So i have an ESXi box configured to use FreeNAS as a SCSI Target and it works really well as far as i can tell. I hold all my VM's on this Datastore.
However, im new to FreeNAS and have only been up and running for a couple of weeks, but i've been reading a bit and i believe i may have made a mistake.
Essentially, i have a 6TB volume called Storage and within that volume i have a dataset called Shared which is a windows share that i use as a sort of public file storage area for the house.
I followed a tutorial to create an iSCSI share for my ESXi box, where i hold several VM's. Whilst doing this and creating the extent i used Extent Type: File and created a 3TB extent.
https://imgur.com/a/nLTiI
Am i right in saying that, instead, under my Storage pool, i should have created a zvol, then used that instead as the Extent target?
The reason i ask is that i have just added a ZIL SLOG device and wanted to configure sync=always. I don't think i can do that on the extent, as that's just a file on Pool Storage, but if im reading it correctly, if i create a 3TB zvol named ESXI_Datastore for example, the i could run:-
zfs set sync=always Storage/ESXI_Datastore
Is my thinking correct here? And if so - is there a way to copy the contents of the extent to the zvol before linking the extent to a zvol instead of a file?
However, im new to FreeNAS and have only been up and running for a couple of weeks, but i've been reading a bit and i believe i may have made a mistake.
Essentially, i have a 6TB volume called Storage and within that volume i have a dataset called Shared which is a windows share that i use as a sort of public file storage area for the house.
I followed a tutorial to create an iSCSI share for my ESXi box, where i hold several VM's. Whilst doing this and creating the extent i used Extent Type: File and created a 3TB extent.
https://imgur.com/a/nLTiI
Am i right in saying that, instead, under my Storage pool, i should have created a zvol, then used that instead as the Extent target?
The reason i ask is that i have just added a ZIL SLOG device and wanted to configure sync=always. I don't think i can do that on the extent, as that's just a file on Pool Storage, but if im reading it correctly, if i create a 3TB zvol named ESXI_Datastore for example, the i could run:-
zfs set sync=always Storage/ESXI_Datastore
Is my thinking correct here? And if so - is there a way to copy the contents of the extent to the zvol before linking the extent to a zvol instead of a file?
