Volume Manager creates a default Dataset

[Zorin1]

I have been reading the manual and watching some videos. I thought that I would play around with FreeNAS in virtualBox before I install it on my new hardware that is coming. I want to get use to the interface and what I am doing prior to going live with it. I got virtualBox setup and FreeNAS loaded.

I have a question, when I go into the Volume Manager and create my first Pool it also creates a dataset with the same volume name. I noticed that is compressed Unix share type. I can't seem to delete this. All the videos that I have watched this is a different behavior. I tried to add another dataset and then delete the other one. That did not either. I was able to modify the first one made but then my shares would not work. Is this first one needed? Maybe I am doing something wrong.

thanks

 

[danb35]

when I go into the Volume Manager and create my first Pool it also creates a dataset with the same volume name

Yes, it does. No, you should not attempt to remove or modify it. Have you looked at the manual? It describes this behavior.

 

[Zorin1]

Yes, it does. No, you should not attempt to remove or modify it. Have you looked at the manual? It describes this behavior.

Could you be kind enough to tell me where in the manual it talks about this? I looked at the manual twice and did not see it. Maybe I just missed it. I'll go back and look again for the third time.

 

[danb35]

http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_storage.html#view-volumes

 

[Zorin1]

http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_storage.html#view-volumes

Thanks for pointing that out. Strange location to be this infor, would have made more sense when you create a volume. I will have to try and look at the datasets a little differently so I remember what is going on. So it seems that you have to a master dataset first, then you can subdivide that dataset, maybe subdivide is the wrong term. I'm learning but things are starting to make sense to me. Thanks for the quick reply.

 

[danb35]

Whenever you create a pool, a dataset is created with the same name as the pool's name. Versions of FreeNAS prior to 9.3 hid that dataset, but it was still there. Any datasets you create will be within that "root" dataset (and I'm not sure if that's the proper term for it, but it's the only term I know of).