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Warning
titleImportant note

This is a demo system that intended to be used for tests and demonstration of the ZFS capabilities only. Use it on your own risk with no any guaranties.

DO NOT USE this ISO in production as well as for critical infrastructure systems!

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Open your favourite browser  and type following URL: https://IP_ADDRESS, where IP_ADDRESS is a real address of your system.

Login to the Argo Web Management System using your credentials.

You will see the status page with details of the system, where this Argo Web Management System's installed. Left frame shows categories and modules available for operations.

Expand the Hardware spoiler and click the ZFSMGR link. You will be redirected to the module which was designed to manage disk pools (zpools) and ZFS file systems (datasets), that can be created on these disk pools. For switching to desired operation, there are 2 tabs with corresponding names presented in the central frame of the window.

To manage datasets, select the ZFS Dataset Manager tab. A list of available disk pools that are allowed to create ZFS file systems is displayed in the working area of ​​the tab.

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The following table describes fields on this page:

name  Unique name of the dataset    
PropertyDescription
Property                                 Description                                                                                                                                   

name

Unique name of the dataset

Quota size

Limits the amount of space a dataset and its descendants can consume

Reservation sizeAn allocation of space from the pool that is guaranteed to be available to a dataset

Block size

Specifies a suggested block size for files in the file system

NFS access

Controls whether the file system is shared via NFS, and what options are used when sharing.

Algorithm of compression

Controls the compression algorithm used for this dataset.

Read only

Controls whether this dataset can be modified.

user

Set the owner user for the dataset

group

Set the owner’s group for the dataset

Permissions

Dataset directory mask

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