There's something I'm not understanding in the whole process chain of setting up an iSCSI Extent on a ZVOL, and presenting it to Windows as an iSCSI target and formatting it as NTFS...
So, I've got it all set up...
FreeNAS 9.2.1.7
10Tb ZPOOL with an 8Tb ZVOL exported as an iSCSI Extent
Windows Server 2012, with the ZVOL mounted as a drive, and formatted to NTFS
Out of 10Tb, I created an 8Tb ZVOL (leaving 20% space to avoid ZFS space issues).
I formatted the 8Tb ZVOL as NTFS and copied the contents of my Windows Server to it.
I got about 5Tb copied and I started to get 'Out of space' warnings from FreeNAS...
Now, I suspect it's a block size issue - everything is currently set to default (I didn't change any block sizes) - but I don't really understand what's going on.
Can someone explain to me why I'm only getting 50% usable capacity?
Thx
So, I've got it all set up...
FreeNAS 9.2.1.7
10Tb ZPOOL with an 8Tb ZVOL exported as an iSCSI Extent
Windows Server 2012, with the ZVOL mounted as a drive, and formatted to NTFS
Out of 10Tb, I created an 8Tb ZVOL (leaving 20% space to avoid ZFS space issues).
I formatted the 8Tb ZVOL as NTFS and copied the contents of my Windows Server to it.
I got about 5Tb copied and I started to get 'Out of space' warnings from FreeNAS...
Now, I suspect it's a block size issue - everything is currently set to default (I didn't change any block sizes) - but I don't really understand what's going on.
Can someone explain to me why I'm only getting 50% usable capacity?
Thx