deed02392
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Hi guys,
I've read about people installing FreeNAS on SSDs, yet I've also read that apparently FreeNAS runs as a live image, creating two 1 GiB partitions with any remaining capacity unused. In which case installing on an SSD, still a relatively valuable storage medium, is pretty pointless (and I may as well use it for L2ARC instead).
I am wondering if you can't partition a drive yourself so that FreeNAS has its own partitions and the rest CAN be added to a storage array or used for ZIL etc, though perhaps the reason you can't do this is that you have to add devices rather than volumes to pools?
Or should I just use a spare 2 GiB USB stick I have?
Thanks a lot :)
George
I've read about people installing FreeNAS on SSDs, yet I've also read that apparently FreeNAS runs as a live image, creating two 1 GiB partitions with any remaining capacity unused. In which case installing on an SSD, still a relatively valuable storage medium, is pretty pointless (and I may as well use it for L2ARC instead).
I am wondering if you can't partition a drive yourself so that FreeNAS has its own partitions and the rest CAN be added to a storage array or used for ZIL etc, though perhaps the reason you can't do this is that you have to add devices rather than volumes to pools?
Or should I just use a spare 2 GiB USB stick I have?
Thanks a lot :)
George