I've setup a FreeNAS server with 6x 3TB drives for use as a backup NAS via iSCSI for a Linux server (Ubuntu 12.04). The FreeNAS setup was pretty straightforward and the logical step seemed to be to create a ZFS volume from the 3TB drives so I went down that path.
Ubuntu's iSCSI initiator page was pretty helpful (https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/iscsi-initiator.html) and it allowed me to configure the Ubuntu machine and have the 11TB FreeNAS drive appear as /dev/sdf
However I was unable to partition the drive. The Ubuntu disk utility would fail. So I just went ahead and did a mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdf and it created an ext4 filesystem which I then was able to mount.
Have I done anything that will come back and bite me later by just using /dev/sdf?
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