Scale Logic calls a file system a dataset. It is equivalent to a file system, a workspace, or a volume. It accomplishes the same thing and then can subsequently be shared out via SMB or NFS or both. We have found the best settings for media creation workloads. Please follow closely and only change if you know the result. After creating the new file system don't forget to protect it by creating a new snapshot job in the Backup and Recovery menu. Snapshots do not affect performance at all so they are great to use on every NX2/ZX file system.
Scale Logic defaults are Compression off, 4MiB stripe for HDDs, 1MiB stripe for flash (NVMe or SAS/SATA SSD), Write sync disabled, atime on. The rest leave at the defaults. SMB and NFS can be used at the same time to the same dataset/folder/share etc. You can create up to 240/250 datasets if you need the workspace workflow like a project or customer dedicated to a workspace.
DISCLAIMER: NEVER turn on Deduplication. It doesn’t work in M&E anyway and will cause the data to have to be backed up and the dataset recreated because it can’t be turned off on a dataset once it is turned on. Dedup performs terribly for M&E workloads.
In addition, you can set quotas and reservations for file systems/datasets. Quota will reflect in tools like properties or get info on the Mac.
QUOTA - Limits the amount of space a dataset and its descendants can consume. This property enforces a hard limit on the amount of space used. This includes all space consumed by descendants, including file systems and snapshots.
The quota can’t be smaller than the Reservation.
RESERVATION - is an allocation of disk space from the pool that is guaranteed to be available to a dataset. As such, you cannot reserve disk space for a dataset if that space is not currently available in the pool. The total amount of all outstanding, unconsumed reservations cannot exceed the amount of unused disk space in the pool.
Include snapshots and clones
If set than disk space is guaranteed for datasets and their descendents like snapshots and clones
If not set disk space is guaranteed only for a dataset without its descendents (does not include disk space consumed by snapshots and clones) This kind of reservation is also called refreservation in ZFS