Hi,
Having read some of the older tutorials and set-up walk throughs has left me wondering if I have installed correctly. I am worried that freeNAS doesn't know it is embedded on a CF card and thus there is going to be some read write issues that will reduce the life of the CF. I am confused here so talking without the knowledge to back me up. Earlier freeNAS version seemed to have special consideration for CF install - swap file not located on same boot media and such like whereas my setup didn't seem to care where I was installing as long as it wasn't a harddrive. Can someone please put my mind to rest or point in right direction if I have lost my way. cheers.
Some further information about my situation:
This is my first freeNAS recently built for use mostly as a media file repository on a home network made up of various WinXP, win7, Win8, OSX and Linux machines.
Hardware consists of an AOpen compact desktop ( intel 6700 @ 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR2) - storage drives are a 'odd-ball collection of SATA drives' making up 1.3TB stripped ZFS but will be changing to a matching 4 drive mirrored volume next week soon as those land on the doorstep.
The boot drive is a 2GB Flash Card inserted into a CF to IDE adapter.
I burned the ISO to a CDR and installed FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-x64 (r12701M) to the CF card. Optical drive was removed from the machine to make way for HDD.
All seems to work well, boots from the CF card and I have volume / share working and all machines on network can access as expected.
(one issue : Onboard NIC/ driver puked after about 15 minutes during file transfer so just disabled it and installed a NIC into the PCI slot without further issue.)
Having read some of the older tutorials and set-up walk throughs has left me wondering if I have installed correctly. I am worried that freeNAS doesn't know it is embedded on a CF card and thus there is going to be some read write issues that will reduce the life of the CF. I am confused here so talking without the knowledge to back me up. Earlier freeNAS version seemed to have special consideration for CF install - swap file not located on same boot media and such like whereas my setup didn't seem to care where I was installing as long as it wasn't a harddrive. Can someone please put my mind to rest or point in right direction if I have lost my way. cheers.
Some further information about my situation:
This is my first freeNAS recently built for use mostly as a media file repository on a home network made up of various WinXP, win7, Win8, OSX and Linux machines.
Hardware consists of an AOpen compact desktop ( intel 6700 @ 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR2) - storage drives are a 'odd-ball collection of SATA drives' making up 1.3TB stripped ZFS but will be changing to a matching 4 drive mirrored volume next week soon as those land on the doorstep.
The boot drive is a 2GB Flash Card inserted into a CF to IDE adapter.
I burned the ISO to a CDR and installed FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-x64 (r12701M) to the CF card. Optical drive was removed from the machine to make way for HDD.
All seems to work well, boots from the CF card and I have volume / share working and all machines on network can access as expected.
(one issue : Onboard NIC/ driver puked after about 15 minutes during file transfer so just disabled it and installed a NIC into the PCI slot without further issue.)
