Merrily implementing FreeNAS for an in-house backup solution. The filesystem is ZFS.
You have to implement a ZVOL to get Raid but no worries, figured that bit out. It's the connection part that confused but, hey-ho, it supports iSCSI. So, I connected it to several servers. This was unwise.
It turns out that iSCSI looks like a local drive to all attached computers. They can't tell which one is writing to the NAS box. Oh bugger.
Anyway, while NTFS is pretty useless it turns out VMFS can sort the contention out without problem.
So, now I have a Windows 2016 Hyper-V server running on NTFS, implemented on VMFS that sits on top of a ZVOL that sits on ZFS.
Then I installed Ubuntu as a VM on an EXT4 partition, on VMFS, on NTFS, on a ZVOL, on ZFS.
And you wonder why I'm just a little crazy!
You have to implement a ZVOL to get Raid but no worries, figured that bit out. It's the connection part that confused but, hey-ho, it supports iSCSI. So, I connected it to several servers. This was unwise.
It turns out that iSCSI looks like a local drive to all attached computers. They can't tell which one is writing to the NAS box. Oh bugger.
Anyway, while NTFS is pretty useless it turns out VMFS can sort the contention out without problem.
So, now I have a Windows 2016 Hyper-V server running on NTFS, implemented on VMFS that sits on top of a ZVOL that sits on ZFS.
Then I installed Ubuntu as a VM on an EXT4 partition, on VMFS, on NTFS, on a ZVOL, on ZFS.
And you wonder why I'm just a little crazy!