On 2010-09-29 07:56, Aaron wrote:
I've created a ZFS pool with zpool create tank raidz ada0 ada1 ada2
ada3, and then I add some additional mountpoints (I think they're
called) using zfs create tank/storage, etc. In zpool list, I see the
pool with 3.62T available. With df -h, I see 2.4T available for tank,
and tank/storage. When I first created tank, it had the 3.62T
available as I expected. What am I missing? I do have compression set
to gzip-9 on tank which gets inherited like I want, don't know if that
would affect anything.
--Aaron
There's nothing wrong here that I can see, you just have to make a
distinction between the zfs pool and the filesystems within the pool and
I agree it can be confusing at first.
The numbers suggest you are using 4 x 1TB (base 10 TB) drives? That
equals 3.7TiB (base 2 TB) which is the unit zpool/zfs uses. This is the
total amount of space available to the pool and includes all space on
all drives in the pool. Nothing strange so far.
Now, since you've told zpool to create filesystems within the pool using
raidz, the filesystems will have 25% less space available since this
space is used for parity data. So a filesystem using the whole pool will
report having 3.7 * 0.75 = 2.7TiB available which is in agreement with
your numbers. A raidz filesystem will always lose 1 disk worth of space
and will never report that space as available to you since it will
always be occupied with parity data.
The pool on the other hand doesn't make a distinction, in this case
anyway, between user data and parity data so zpool will always report
what's actually unallocated on all your physical drives in the pool. For
every GiB you allocate in the filesystem you will allocate 1.33GiB in
the pool since that includes parity data. "zfs list" and "df -h" are
your best friends to find out how much space is available for your
files. Don't bother about "zpool list".
Regards
Morgan
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