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master-2016
Nov 30, 2016Aspirant
NAS with quotas says that share is full when it has a much more space
I inserted in it 2x 2TB hard drive and conver it in RAID-0 FlexRAID. Then I add 3 share (1 - unlimited, 1 - 30GB and 1 - 300GB quotas). Then I tried to send abou...
mdgm-ntgr
Dec 01, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
The quotas count both data and metadata, but one would have thought you wouldn't be anywhere close to filling the quota with only 100GB of data. The metadata would only be at most a handful of GB one would expect.
StephenB
Dec 01, 2016Guru - Experienced User
mdgm wrote:
The quotas count both data and metadata, but one would have thought you wouldn't be anywhere close to filling the quota with only 100GB of data. The metadata would only be at most a handful of GB one would expect.
They count snapshot space too, correct?
- master-2016Dec 01, 2016Aspirant
even if it has already reserved a space for the creation of snapshots, the 30 snapshots will not be able to take almost 200 GB from 100 GB files
as you can see on the screenshot - it can do only 30 snapshots and only at sunday (now there is no snapshots because it didn't do it yet)
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