Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 9:35 PM Dale <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > <SNIP> > > > > > > > > I got a old rig I can use. I actually burned OpenNAS, TrueNAS or > > > FreeNAS on a USB stick. I can't recall which one I put on it tho. I > > > downloaded all three. lol If you know that one is better than the > > > others, feel free to share. Also, I'd like to keep using LVM if I > > > can. If nothing else, I already got the data on the drives and won't > > > have to reformat and copy again. It took almost 100 hours to copy to > > > the new 16TB drive. Using LVM would make that easier, and faster. > > > > > > > > I'll have to work with what I got for now but I really like the > > > Raspberry option for its size and good options to upgrade later. I'll > > > just make do with something else until that option is doable. Maybe > > > it won't be to long. > > > > > > > > Dale > > > > > > > > :-) :-) > > > > > > TrueNAS Core. It's the free one. Works great. Very stable, but it is > > > BSD, not Linux so you'll be frustrated sometimes. None the less it > > > works very well. > > > > > > Well, I booted it and it is FreeNAS. I got it on a USB stick tho. > > Well, I put the installer on one stick and then installed on a second > > stick. Kinda odd but I get it. I also noticed it is BSD based. I > > played with BSD once before. One thing I can say, it's secure. Big > time. > > > > I'm not clear exactly but FreeNAS _BECAME_ TrueNAS Core and TrueNAS > (all 3 versions) are the ones being worked on. > > Installing from USB is pretty standard. Installing to a USB flash drive > is not unheard of in home NAS servers but be careful of machine > placement because people talk about USB sockets being unreliable > long term. I'm sure you'll figure it out, but make sure you're using > TrueNAS Core. > > > I see it uses ZFS or something. No mention of LVM. I figured that. Oh > > well. > > I see LVM as something that belongs on your machine, not your NAS > device. Your LVM volumes will just be directories on the NAS. You will > make your pools as large as you can afford and the NAS will just store > your data. You don't really need to worry about that much. My NAS > stores backups from 3 different machine, but all the backup data > is in a single ZFS RAID1 pool located in directories which macth the > name of the machine that wrote them. > > > > > If I can't hammer FreeNAS into shape, I'll try TrueNAS next. If it > > works, that's fine too. ;-) > > My input for the third time. Move to TrueNAS Core. That's the one > that is being developed and getting support. > > Mark
I think I'm going to switch. I need to start over anyway. I set up a user account and a large pool but while I can mount it, I can't put anything in it yet. I get a permission error. I likely missed a step or something. Starting over will help correct that. lol By the way, when I got it installed, it did update to a newer version. I didn't look to see if it was dated in any way but updates seem to be available for FreeNAS. I dunno. Thanks for the info. Dale :-) :-)
