Jibun no Kage
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- May 18, 2023
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Boot TrueNAS as memory resident only? Say from iPXE? Yes, this would mean initially TrueNAS was stateless, had not personality, i.e. configuration. But that would be the next question or issue to solve. The first question is, can one Boot TrueNAS from iPXE. Not to install, but as a functional system? For example, various virtualization hypervisors can do this, since they are 100% memory resident, typical logging is forwarding to rsyslog server or similar, in such cases, since base memory has its limits in a memory resident OS approach.
I have seen references to TrueNAS once booting from USB thumb drives, only to see warnings that the thumb drives quickly become exhausted, so that suggests TrueNAS when booting from USB thumb drive was never memory resident.
Is there any plans, efforts to make TrueNAS memory resident, as a pre-cursor to booting to a stateless system, then once up, pull personality, i.e. configuration from say a HTTP/HTTPS source point? Would be interesting would it not?
I have seen references to TrueNAS once booting from USB thumb drives, only to see warnings that the thumb drives quickly become exhausted, so that suggests TrueNAS when booting from USB thumb drive was never memory resident.
Is there any plans, efforts to make TrueNAS memory resident, as a pre-cursor to booting to a stateless system, then once up, pull personality, i.e. configuration from say a HTTP/HTTPS source point? Would be interesting would it not?
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