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[How-To] Set up Time Machine for multiple machines with OSX Server-Style Quotas

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Normally, when you setup Time Machine (TM) you must use a Quota of some sort, or Time Machine will allocate all of the space on your FreeNAS server. The traditional approach is to use a dataset quota, but this quota is a quota for ALL your time machine backups, and once the TM backups use up all the quota it does not work very well, as each TM instance will be relying on the other TM instances to clear their backups. This leads to failed backups.

And in fact, this is semi documented in the...

[How-To] Set up Time Machine for multiple machines with OSX Server-Style Quotas

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