'gpart create -s gpt -f active /dev/da1' failed: gpart: arg0 'da1': Invalid argument' This is the error I get after a minute or so. Have tried ext and dos to format drive before adding to pool. USB is fine - i.e. working. It is exactly the same USB as main boot USB (same make, model, and...

I was setting up a mirrored boot device (per http://doc.freenas.org/11/system.html#mirroring-the-boot-device) after I had a single USB device die and fail to boot. The previous and new device was setup to boot in Legacy (Non-EFI) mode. I added a second (to be mirrored) device, and set it to...

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...

I have a SuperMicro machine with two Sandisk Ultrafit 32g USB drives as boot devices, mirrored. After installing the latest update, the machine too a very long time to reboot and sent me an email that the boot volume state is degraded: The boot volume state is DEGRADED: One or more devices...

Hardware: HP proliant n54l, 16GB Ram 5x 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives setup in Raidz. FreeNAS Version and build: FreeNAS-9.10.1-U2 (f045a8b) Boot Volume mirrored: devices da1p2 , da0p2 - Both USB's are a Lexar 16GB JumpDrive FreeNAS Volume and Data Set: 1x Volume using 5x 3TB split into 3...