Creating a new ZFS block device volume
Select the “Storage” main menu item on the left of the screen.
Select the “ZFS Pool manager” sub menu tab.
The main area will then display the list of all available pools along with the datasets/block device volumes in each of the pools.
Corresponding to each pool, you will see a button saying “View pool details”. Clicking on this will take you to a screen that displays the pool details.
- You will then see a section called “Block device volumes in this pool”. This will show all the block device volumes in the selected pool.
- This table also provides you with a button called “Create a new block device volume”. Clicking on this will take you to a screen which prompts for the following information before creating the blcok device volume :
Block device volume name : Specify a name for this volume.
Volume size/Unit : Specify a number and select the unit (GB/MB) for this volume.
Enable compression/deduplication : Same as for the dataset (See the section called “Creating a dataset(filesystem) above).