Title says most of it. I have a pair of 8GB USB sticks in a Mirror for booting. All was well until one of them started going bad and was degraded. No problem, I have more! Pop in a new drive, let it resilver. All appears well. Until I had to reboot... Upon reboot, the system with hang at...

Quick question, sorry if it's been addressed, I can't seem to find any concrete answer. I built my first FreeNAS machine ~6 weeks ago, and used an old, slow 8GB thumb drive as the boot drive. I've since gotten two new shiny 16GB thumb drives (identical model), and want to transfer my boot...

Newb question here. I'm planning in creating a boot mirror on a 2nd flash drive for my FreeNAS OS and I see a "use all disk space" checkbox option. What would be the pros/cons of having this ticked/unticked? What would be a usecase in which I would need to use this feature? Are there performance...

Brief History My FreeNAS server has been running fine, fairly consistently over the past 5 years or so on my home-built server. Recently, it suffered MB failure. Because it was 5 years old, they don't make them with the same CPU socket, so I ended up replacing everything except the PSU, case...

Hello all I am setting up my Mini XL, and see that it has QTY (1) 16GB SATA DOM for boot. I have always ran my FreeNAS systems with 2 USB flash drives in a mirror as a safety measure. How can this be accomplished when I'm using a SATA DDOM? Do I need another SATA DOM, or can I use a 16Gb USB...

If I add a mirror to my boot device, and want to be sure the system will boot from either of the devices, some posts say you need to add a bootcode record to the new disk (using gpart), some say you refer to the new device by device ID and others by GPT ID, others say you don't need to do this...

I have a FreeNAS box currently running FreeNAS-9.10.1-U4 (ec9a7d3), but originally installed with 9.3. The boot drive is a pair of 16GB USB sticks (Kingston DataTraveler devices):- # zpool status freenas-boot pool: freenas-boot state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h15m with 0 errors on...

Hallo, Einer meiner beiden gespiegelten USB Boot Medien ist laut FreeNAS 9.10 defekt und muss getauscht werden. Nun ist es nicht einfach herauszufinden welcher der defekte ist. Ich würde einfach einen herausziehen und sehen was passiert. Hierzu meine Frage: - wenn ich den defekten herausziehe...