I haven't spent nearly enough time exploring FreeNAS, although over the past couple of years I've built more than a few units and somehow managed to get things to work, even despite my lack of knowledge. So with having stated this, I've no doubt also spent insufficient time in understanding ALL that I see flying past on the screen during a boot process, and what I THINK I understand is probably fairly minimal. So...
Over this past couple of days, I built a 'new box', as yet another 'experiment' with FreeNAS, using a new download of FreeNAS 11 running on an 'older' Dell with an i5, 12 GB of RAM, booting from a 16 GB flash, and 3 X - W/D 1 TB disks in what I'd call 'RAID-5'. I just let FreeNAS 'take-over' and configure itself, pretty much, and I have it up and operating where I see 1.8 TB of disk space in the CIFS share I created, and which is intended for a couple of Windows machines to use. The three users I've created have full access to this share (as I had intended), so things seem to be fairly functional, but as I watched it boot up yesterday after I got home from work, I noticed a line during boot-up that I can't say I've seen previously with earlier FreeNAS installations (and maybe I was just not paying attention..), saying something about 'no suitable dump device found', which I don't think I really 'grasp'...(?) Bear in mind I'm still just a noob, so what others might see as simple often confounds me, but someone please 'splain to me what this 'dump device' is, what it is intended for, what 'suitable' may mean, and if a lack thereof is somehow detrimental to this new 'box' I'm playin' with.
Sorry for posing what others will see as stupid questions, but I'm trying to understand, just slow I guess ...
Over this past couple of days, I built a 'new box', as yet another 'experiment' with FreeNAS, using a new download of FreeNAS 11 running on an 'older' Dell with an i5, 12 GB of RAM, booting from a 16 GB flash, and 3 X - W/D 1 TB disks in what I'd call 'RAID-5'. I just let FreeNAS 'take-over' and configure itself, pretty much, and I have it up and operating where I see 1.8 TB of disk space in the CIFS share I created, and which is intended for a couple of Windows machines to use. The three users I've created have full access to this share (as I had intended), so things seem to be fairly functional, but as I watched it boot up yesterday after I got home from work, I noticed a line during boot-up that I can't say I've seen previously with earlier FreeNAS installations (and maybe I was just not paying attention..), saying something about 'no suitable dump device found', which I don't think I really 'grasp'...(?) Bear in mind I'm still just a noob, so what others might see as simple often confounds me, but someone please 'splain to me what this 'dump device' is, what it is intended for, what 'suitable' may mean, and if a lack thereof is somehow detrimental to this new 'box' I'm playin' with.
Sorry for posing what others will see as stupid questions, but I'm trying to understand, just slow I guess ...
