Matthew Kent
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I'm setting up a FreeNAS box that will eventually store BackupExec backups in a production environment. I've built my hardware and all seems to be working nicely.
I have 24TB of available disk space as a ZFS volume, which I want to split into an 18Tb and a 6Tb file extent to access through iSCSI.
Having read some other posts on the forum some users suggest creating the file extents manually using 'dd' so that the file extents won't be over-provisioned and run into problems if they fill up - does this sound sensible?
Also should I leave some 'whitespace' on the ZFS volume for FeeNAS to be happy, or can I just provision the whole lot?
Thanks,
Matt
I have 24TB of available disk space as a ZFS volume, which I want to split into an 18Tb and a 6Tb file extent to access through iSCSI.
Having read some other posts on the forum some users suggest creating the file extents manually using 'dd' so that the file extents won't be over-provisioned and run into problems if they fill up - does this sound sensible?
Also should I leave some 'whitespace' on the ZFS volume for FeeNAS to be happy, or can I just provision the whole lot?
Thanks,
Matt