October 4, 20232 yr I have set up three shares, which are all on the same zpool, as network drives in Windows 11. Even though they are all on the same pool, they show different sizes for both used and total size. The I: and V: drives in the screenshot are shared via SMB, the L: drive via NFS (since my Lightroom grinds to a halt when having my library on an SMB share for some reason). Basically what I'm seeing is that they all report 17.8TB of free space (which is fine), and add whatever is used by the share to that for the total amount. This is very odd behaviour. I would expect them all to show the size of the pool as total space and whatever is left on the pool as available across all shares. This may just be a bug, but if anybody has come accross this before I'd love any suggestions on how to fix this, as my OCD can't cope with it 😅 Btw this was present in 6.12.3 and still is in 6.12.4. I don't know about before then as I wasn't using Windows then. Edited October 4, 20232 yr by d0rh4ns
October 5, 20232 yr Community Expert Assuming it's a raidz pool, kooks like NFS includes the parity in the total capacity, probably not much you can do, and since free space is correct I would just ignore.
October 6, 20232 yr Author It's not the parity. Raw storage is much higher. Both SMB and NFS shares do the same thing, they add whatever is used by that specific share to the free space to determine the total amount of storage. The video share has 1TB used, the Lightroom share almost 4 and the other one is empty in that screenshot, hence the difference. Maybe I'll just report it as a bug. I wonder if anybody else has seen this behaviour though?!
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