Hello all.
Complete novice with FreeNAS here. I downloaded the latest 8.2.0 version yesterday and I'm trying it out in Virtual Box. Apart from the OS disk, I created in Vbox 6 disks of 4GiB each. Maybe this is part of the problem, did I make the disks too small for a real test?
In FreeNAS in Volume Manager I selected all disks, the ZFS option and then the offered RAIDZ2 option. All good so far.
But the volume was created with only 7.8GiB available, barely the size of two disks, not 4 as I expected (you lose 2 out of the 6 for parity). Also, the space is so much smaller that this isn't a question of GB vs GiB.
What did I do wrong?
The volume manager correctly reports the disks as 4.3GB (which is the same as 4GiB) during the creation of the volume. But the resulting volume is too small. Is this a result of some overhead which cuts a big piece of these small 4GiB disks, so that the space used is much smaller later?
Thanks in advance.
Darko.
Complete novice with FreeNAS here. I downloaded the latest 8.2.0 version yesterday and I'm trying it out in Virtual Box. Apart from the OS disk, I created in Vbox 6 disks of 4GiB each. Maybe this is part of the problem, did I make the disks too small for a real test?
In FreeNAS in Volume Manager I selected all disks, the ZFS option and then the offered RAIDZ2 option. All good so far.
But the volume was created with only 7.8GiB available, barely the size of two disks, not 4 as I expected (you lose 2 out of the 6 for parity). Also, the space is so much smaller that this isn't a question of GB vs GiB.
What did I do wrong?
The volume manager correctly reports the disks as 4.3GB (which is the same as 4GiB) during the creation of the volume. But the resulting volume is too small. Is this a result of some overhead which cuts a big piece of these small 4GiB disks, so that the space used is much smaller later?
Thanks in advance.
Darko.