please help me understand something.
I want to mount an external harddrive to use it as target for my Truenas backups via Duplicati. the drive is formatted in exfat so it can be read on any other os if i needed to.
My understanding is that Truenas is not compatible with exfat out of the box. It seems this is a limitation of freebsd which is the base os of truenas.
As a solution, i wanted to install the package fusefs-exfat which was ported to freebsd in 2012.
However, a lot of enfasis has been made to the fact that Truenas is an appliance and it is not recomended that i modify its operating system.
The general advisement seems to be that If i need certain package, i should install it inside a jail so it won't affect the Truenas os.
But, again this is my understanding, jails cannot mount drives. Only the host OS can do that.
So, the base os cannot mount the drive because it is not compatible with exfat. The jail would be compatible with exfat but is not allowed to mount drives.
Is this correct?
I hope i am mistaken and would love to be told I'm wrong on this as it appears that truenas has the tools to use exfat drives but it doesn't because....... (insert your speculative theory here).
Please note that I'm not trying to start an argument here of the limitations that Truenas may or may not have. I'm just tring to find a way to mount an exfat drive.
I want to mount an external harddrive to use it as target for my Truenas backups via Duplicati. the drive is formatted in exfat so it can be read on any other os if i needed to.
My understanding is that Truenas is not compatible with exfat out of the box. It seems this is a limitation of freebsd which is the base os of truenas.
As a solution, i wanted to install the package fusefs-exfat which was ported to freebsd in 2012.
However, a lot of enfasis has been made to the fact that Truenas is an appliance and it is not recomended that i modify its operating system.
The general advisement seems to be that If i need certain package, i should install it inside a jail so it won't affect the Truenas os.
But, again this is my understanding, jails cannot mount drives. Only the host OS can do that.
So, the base os cannot mount the drive because it is not compatible with exfat. The jail would be compatible with exfat but is not allowed to mount drives.
Is this correct?
I hope i am mistaken and would love to be told I'm wrong on this as it appears that truenas has the tools to use exfat drives but it doesn't because....... (insert your speculative theory here).
Please note that I'm not trying to start an argument here of the limitations that Truenas may or may not have. I'm just tring to find a way to mount an exfat drive.