Mapped Network Drive not showing used space?

[darkryoushii]

Hey there,

I recently setup a freeNAS build with 15TB of storage (5x3TB drives) and boy was that an experience.

I'm now copying over all my media to the drive but I've noticed something odd. Instead of the space being used up according to Windows, the drive is instead shrinking.
Shown here:

Is there anyway I can keep the space at 10.7TB as it should be and show how much has been used?

Also related, I've read that people 'tweak' their cifs settings to get faster write rates, I'm currently writing at 30MB/s on a full gigabit/cat6 network so I'm wondering what settings I should be looking at changing?
Network buffer was mentioned somewhere, but what values should I be looking at?

Any help is greatly appreciated,
thanks in advance!

 

[gpsguy]

What version are you running? I've got 8.3.0 and my free/total numbers display correctly on both XP and Win 7.

Before tweaking CIFS, do a forum search on CIFS, performance, etc. In fact, there's a forum section devoted to performance.

One hint, if you're using an onboard NIC, liike a Realtek, swapping it out for an Intel Pro/1000 should help.

 

[darkryoushii]

thanks for a prompt reply,

Running FreeNAS 8.3.1 RC1
I wondering if it has something to do with the way I have my datasets, I have child datasets inside media which is where I'm currently putting files.. may need to put a quota on them or something, will try it after copying has finished.

Regards to the performance, thanks I simply added it on because I didn't want to create another thread but will definitely go and checkout what is to offer over there. I have both onboard and Intel but my main connection runs on the intel, the realtek is being used to connect a boxee box. Wanted to bridge them but couldn't while running the jail.

 

[darkryoushii]

will leave this thread to a single question - as per the rules.

Hardware: AMD A6-5400K
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LP
HDDs: 5x 3TB Toshiba 7200RPM drives (The hitachi models)

FreeNAS: 8.3.1 RC1

Extra stuff that may be important:
Datasets that I have mapped are parent ones, with many child ones underneath them. The child ones is where I'm placing data
I have full ZFS disk encryption enabled on the storage pool, I'm thinking maybe this affects it?
I don't have quotas on any dataset, but now it's done something even more weird and now the two shares aren't matching at all
SEE HERE:

That screenshot was taken after I put about 700GB into MEDIA.

 

[JaimieV]

I have child datasets inside media which is where I'm currently putting files

This. It's the rather non-obvious way that ZFS shows 'disk size' on a volume with datasets.
Datasets, unlike partitions, can expand and contract depending on free space in the *parent* filesystem. Putting a load of data in a neighbouring dataset drops the declared size of the "disk" (actually the dataset that you're observing) to the total amount of data you could now put into it, given that another dataset is using some. All datasets will show the same amount of free space.

In other words, don't worry about it. Look at the total size of the volume, not the "size" of any dataset that you're sharing.

 

[ddsjcukv]

First off, apologies for opening such an old thread, however this is the only mention of this problem I have been able to locate and there is no solution provided.

"don't worry about it" is pretty much as far from a solution as one can possibly get

In my case I'm runningn FreeNAS 9.2.1.5 with a setup of four disks in a RAIDZ2 volume (Volume1), within this volume I have created multiple datasets, for which there is a single share through one or more of the protocols AFP, NFS or CIFS for each dataset.

It should be noted I also have a CIFS share pointed at the root volume (Volum1), for admin purposes.

It's fine that the combined volume size for all datasets are displayed, however not that the total size is always displaying the same value as used space.
This way the volume always looks empty, very misleading.

I am seeing the same problem in mapped shares through all three mentioned protocols.

Does anybody know what can be done about this?

Is it a bug that I should submit on the bug tracker?

Thanks for any help.

 

[dhirschi]

I am having the same issue. Mapped drive only shows free space, not total space. Also using FreeNAS 9.2. I have another issue with Plex media not showing up when I add my media folder that may be related (maybe the volume or datasets were set up incorrectly), but I'll save the details of that question for the Plex Media part of these forums (if no one asks ;)) .

 

[cyberjock]

FreeNAS 9.2 is not really supported anymore.. Use a build that is less than 15 months old please. Also locking this thread as this thread is from 2013 and 9.2 wasn't released until Dec 2013. Also the free space and total space display just changed in the latest 9.3 build.