On 2013-08-27 7:42 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
On 27/08/2013 13:36, Tanstaafl wrote:
I'm wondering what the best way would be to get something set up for ZFS
file storage. I have some older servers that I can use, so was leaning
toward FreeNAS...
Mine are HP mini-servers (the cube shaped ones) with 4 SATA bays running
FreeNAS 8.0.something.
Dunno if you've worked with FreeNAS before, but it's literally a case of
write the image to USB or flash storage and boot off it. Then play.
You will need to be able to boot off a USB stick, CF card or similar,
FreeNAS uses an entire drive for it's system partition and it's a shame
to waste a whole high-capacity disk just for a 2G system image
I haven't worked with it before, but this comment of yours means I soon
will be - thanks... :)
So, once I have something up and running and fully configured, it is
relatively easy to backup the new/running system image, in case the
flash drive ever crashes and burns?
Thanks Alan, starting to get excited about playing with ZFS.
How would you rate their docs and support community (for the free version)?
Thanks again Alan
Charles
