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Dabbler
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- Apr 4, 2014
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Hi list,
I gave 9.3 a try hoping that it is finally capable of being installed on zfs. Well, that is true and it works but not as expected.
On FreeBSD I can create a zpool during installation and place the system on a raidz for example. Not so with FreeNAS. Are there any plans to have that or am I missing something?
Problem is that you have a rock solid NAS with all the beautiful zfs features and then you have to rely on a (potentially faulty) single USB stick. Plus the hassle with booting from USB. Don't know how good that works on other servers than Dell (2950, R710) but it was not usable that way, because you have to make it a fake USB harddrive by BIOS and than it all gets messed up. Only solution: Using a real USB HD.
Apart from that I like that it has Grub now and no more UFS ;-)
Cheers,
Hai
I gave 9.3 a try hoping that it is finally capable of being installed on zfs. Well, that is true and it works but not as expected.
On FreeBSD I can create a zpool during installation and place the system on a raidz for example. Not so with FreeNAS. Are there any plans to have that or am I missing something?
Problem is that you have a rock solid NAS with all the beautiful zfs features and then you have to rely on a (potentially faulty) single USB stick. Plus the hassle with booting from USB. Don't know how good that works on other servers than Dell (2950, R710) but it was not usable that way, because you have to make it a fake USB harddrive by BIOS and than it all gets messed up. Only solution: Using a real USB HD.
Apart from that I like that it has Grub now and no more UFS ;-)
Cheers,
Hai