I'm a long-time listener, first-time caller. I've spent most of the last year assembling and testing the system in my sig. Recently, I've been having some odd issues with jails and plugins, and before reaching out to the community for help, I figured I'd try reinstalling from scratch to rule out the possibility that I'd screwed them up somehow. These issues are briefly described below (for the curious), but are not relevant to this question, and will be posted separately if I am able to reproduce on the new install.
I have 2 pools, one SSD and one disk (main).
My jails are on my SSD pool, which I would wipe/recreate for a new install.
My main pool is encrypted. I have saved the key and the recovery key.
If I reinstall FreeNAS, I'll need to import my main pool.
My googling on the subject has found only old bug reports, and link to FreeNAS docs. I have been unable to find anyone with this particular question/situation. According to the FreeNAS docs:
All of the data currently on the system exists off of the system, so I could start over from the *very* beginning if I had to, but I'd rather not have to deal with re-transferring the 10TB of data I've already copied into the pool.
Someone please tell me that I'm wrong about the above limitations, and please let me know where I missed the correct answer.
Jails are issuing with duplicate MAC addresses. Once the MAC is fixed, jails are not automatically pulling IP addresses. The only fix has been to go into the shell and manually issue a dhclient <interface>.
Also, plugins are working only intermittently, often failing to start, and generating errors about being unable to locate JSON stuff.
Also, plugins are working only intermittently, often failing to start, and generating errors about being unable to locate JSON stuff.
I have 2 pools, one SSD and one disk (main).
My jails are on my SSD pool, which I would wipe/recreate for a new install.
My main pool is encrypted. I have saved the key and the recovery key.
If I reinstall FreeNAS, I'll need to import my main pool.
My googling on the subject has found only old bug reports, and link to FreeNAS docs. I have been unable to find anyone with this particular question/situation. According to the FreeNAS docs:
- Disks must be decrypted before import.
- Disks cannot be encrypted in-place. (point 10 in that link)
- Can be exported, then imported,
- Must be decrypted in the import process, and
- Cannot be re-encrypted in place
All of the data currently on the system exists off of the system, so I could start over from the *very* beginning if I had to, but I'd rather not have to deal with re-transferring the 10TB of data I've already copied into the pool.
Someone please tell me that I'm wrong about the above limitations, and please let me know where I missed the correct answer.