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- From: Joe at Polcari.com (Joe Polcari)
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:05:19 -0500
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I have quite a few FreeNAS boxes in service right now and that is not how they work. -----Original Message----- From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+joe=polcari.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Richard Pieri Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 2:57 PM To: discuss at blu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss] Home server On 1/26/2015 11:54 AM, Joe Polcari wrote: > Automatic updates - well checking, it still requires you to say 'doit'. Look deeper: FreeNAS runs from images. When you update FreeNAS you download a new image and that image is added to the boot loader. "Installing" FreeNAS to a fixed drive entails using another host to install the image to the drive and then moving the drive to the FreeNAS host. Upgrades are done the same way: remove the drive, install a new image, return it. Pain in the behind and a waste of a perfectly good SSD that would be better used for ZIL. One way to look at the difference between FreeNAS and PC-BSD is Android vs. Ubuntu. Similar idea: FreeNAS and PC-BSD share the same kernel and user space but in practice the former is a file service appliance while the latter is a full-on computing system. NB for Rohan: FreeNAS has a recommended minimum of 8GB RAM. PC-BSD has a more modest 1GB minimum with 2-4GB recommended. If the system supports two DDR2 sticks then I strongly recommend upgrading to 4GB at the least regardless of what you run on it. -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss at blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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