Robin Bowes Wrote: > Bane wrote: > > I understand being busy. I just built a NAS using FreeNAS. Do you > think > > it will be possible to upgrade a FreeNAS box to your version once > > available without redoing the disk array? I assume the answer would > be > > yes as long as it isn't installed on the array, but I thought I would > > confirm before I start loading my data on the device. > > I was planning to just add perl support to FreeNAS and to install > slimserver to one of the disks configured by FreeNAS. However, FreeNAS > wouldn't be able to start any service from the external disks. > > So, that means installing slimserver on the RAM disk, which means it > the > boot image gets much bigger, and there are persistence problems, i.e. > copying settings/DB etc. to persistent storage at shutdown. > > > I need to revisit the whole thing and work out whether or not it's > really feasible, or whether it would be easier to simply rip the GUI > code and port it to a DSL box! > > R.
It would be disappointing if it can't be done with FreeNAS. I really like the capabilities of FreeNAS, and it's care and feeding is effectively what a consumer NAS would be. The Monowall interface is definitely a strength. Hopefully you can get it working.. Best of luck. -- Bane ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bane's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1635 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20597 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
