James Snell
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- Jul 25, 2013
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Why not change FreeNAS so that every drive you attach will be added a mirror member of the OS volume? This just makes sense to me, probably because I know little of the bootloader's requirements. Has this concept been discussed? Am I living in a dream-world?
Both my FreeNAS rigs run on mirrored USB flash drives and both have drive failures that seem to hinder updates, but otherwise work fine. It's sort of annoying as I want the same data redundancy for my FreeNAS OS volume as my actual data volumes. Since installation to mirrored volumes is supported, it seems like I'm probably not completely crazy to suggest this.
Back in the ~1920's, before I used FreeNAS, I rigged my file server such that it could boot from any attached drive. It was basic, just each drive had a copy of the bootloader that could let the system keep booting when my retro BIOS would change boot orders due to moving drives around. It was a fine approach. An n-way mirror of the OS volume would be the same concept scaled rather beautifully. Right?
Insults? Compliments? Irrelevant comments?
Both my FreeNAS rigs run on mirrored USB flash drives and both have drive failures that seem to hinder updates, but otherwise work fine. It's sort of annoying as I want the same data redundancy for my FreeNAS OS volume as my actual data volumes. Since installation to mirrored volumes is supported, it seems like I'm probably not completely crazy to suggest this.
Back in the ~1920's, before I used FreeNAS, I rigged my file server such that it could boot from any attached drive. It was basic, just each drive had a copy of the bootloader that could let the system keep booting when my retro BIOS would change boot orders due to moving drives around. It was a fine approach. An n-way mirror of the OS volume would be the same concept scaled rather beautifully. Right?
Insults? Compliments? Irrelevant comments?