This system is certainly not for the fainthearted, New to this. So, I can see my folder in/on windows (SMB) file structure however cannot for the life of me find it in the Dataset structure. It works, I have loads of files sored in it but cant see it. Its set up as a POSIX, not sure if that the best setup either? I have tried numerious things through “Shell” but nada. Second question is POSIX better than using NFSv4. It a small home set up with 4 x 4TB drives in a RAIDZ2 setup.
Are you sure it’s a dataset and not a folder? Because the truenas GUI only lists datasets not folders creates inside the shared datasets
How do I tell the difference? It’s one of five “dir” I think was originally visible and the disappeared, but I wouldn’t stake my life on it, I’ve been fiddling so long now I can’t remember tbh.
Start to create a new share, in the “Path” box folders and datasets are shown with different symbols
of with
sudo zfs list -r Poolname
If it won’t show there it’s a folder, not a dataset
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Well there you go, thank you, its a folder. How did I do that? I thought I had done them all the same, clearly not. Can I convert that to a Dataset, should it be a dataset, what are cons/pros for having it as a folder or dataset. I’m probably showing my ignorance, sorry
No you can’t convert a folder into a dataset. Datasets are created and managed from the webui, a folder was most likely created from shell with mkdir or in windows with rightclick → new folder.
You can Howerver create a new Dataset from the webui and copy over your content…But it shouldn’t matter too much as long as you don’t want different snapshot policies or compression ratios or recordsizes for the data you store in there…
Thanks for your help, much apprecaited