Hello everyone,
I'm in the process of setting up my FreeNAS box. Currently I'm still testing to determine how best to setup my box for my needs.
I've chosen my volume type; I'll be using 6 disks in RAID-Z2 configuration. Now I want to setup some sort of folder structure on this volume for sharing in the network.
I was planning to have different datasets within my volume according to the type of data/media it should contain, e.g. Movies, Music, Pictures etc. To this end I wanted to simply "Create ZFS dataset" to my volume for each of the "folders" it should contain. In this way I could give different users distinct access to different "folders" (e.g. user A can access Movies and Music but not Pictures and user B can only access Pictures). Now I have two questions regarding this.
1) I this good idea to setup datasets? Or should datasets be chosen according to some other considerations?
2) I noticed that my volume also allows me to "Create ZFS volume" which creates a new volume under "/dev/zvol/[main volume]/[new volume]". However I cannot add datasets to this volume in the GUI. What is the purpose of this function (i.e. adding a volume to an existing volume)?
Many thanks.
I'm in the process of setting up my FreeNAS box. Currently I'm still testing to determine how best to setup my box for my needs.
I've chosen my volume type; I'll be using 6 disks in RAID-Z2 configuration. Now I want to setup some sort of folder structure on this volume for sharing in the network.
I was planning to have different datasets within my volume according to the type of data/media it should contain, e.g. Movies, Music, Pictures etc. To this end I wanted to simply "Create ZFS dataset" to my volume for each of the "folders" it should contain. In this way I could give different users distinct access to different "folders" (e.g. user A can access Movies and Music but not Pictures and user B can only access Pictures). Now I have two questions regarding this.
1) I this good idea to setup datasets? Or should datasets be chosen according to some other considerations?
2) I noticed that my volume also allows me to "Create ZFS volume" which creates a new volume under "/dev/zvol/[main volume]/[new volume]". However I cannot add datasets to this volume in the GUI. What is the purpose of this function (i.e. adding a volume to an existing volume)?
Many thanks.