I'm about to start experimenting with FreeNas in order to prepare for when my real NAS arrives. Does anyone with experience have any helpful advice before I dig in?
Specs:
Front Backplane : SAS-846EL1
Rear backplane : SAS-826EL1
Boot:Supermicro SSD 16GB SATA DOM
Mobo : X8DTl-3F
Cpu: 2x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5645(12M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 6-Core)
Ram : 48GB ECC
Psu : 1400W
Storage: 15TB to start. Will add 3TB every 6months until I reach 60TB.
Last bump and I'm off to fucking around
I had horrible permission errors when using FreeNAS SMB shares between Linux and Windows
>Storage: 15TB to start. Will add 3TB every 6months until I reach 60TB.
How are you setting up your drives? You can't really add to a zpool if you're trying to keep it redundant, at least not one drive at a time.
hello again hording man-child. read the documentation, really. find out exactly what you want to do, how you want to share data in your network. learn to tell the difference between zvols, datasets, etc. plan your storage ahead. just adding a drive every month ain't gonna work just like that.
really, read the zfs documentation, it's well enough written for tech illiterates with good examples.
that's because i assume you are not reading the documentation and just click around hoping your trial and error gets you somewhere.
I liked OpenMediaVault a lot better.
Dedup is a trap for most datasets.
Ignore it unless you need to have multiple different forms of a single object or structure of file.
Compression is always good when you have redundancy.
When will brainlets learn? I hope this wont be storing any critical information.
>FreeNAS
What's the point of it besides on disk support of zfs?
comfort in functionality and administration, when you get older you might understand