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I thought I'd send out my thanks for FreeNAS 9.3 now using ZFS booting. With ZFS as the
boot media, we get scrubbing, snapshots for updates AND easy mirroring. Two of those
features do take extra hardware, (more space for update snapshots, additional drive for the
mirror). However, in my opinion, well worth both the extra software, and the expense.
When I first researched FreeNAS in 2014, it was at 9.2.x and still used UFS on RAM disk for
booting. Someone had instructions on how to convert it to a mirrored device. Since I was looking
for years worth of reliability, mirrored boot media was a goal. But, the instructions were not
trivial, (even for an experianced Unix SysAdmin such as my self). FreeNAS 9.3 changed that.
Thanks again everyone who made this happen.
boot media, we get scrubbing, snapshots for updates AND easy mirroring. Two of those
features do take extra hardware, (more space for update snapshots, additional drive for the
mirror). However, in my opinion, well worth both the extra software, and the expense.
When I first researched FreeNAS in 2014, it was at 9.2.x and still used UFS on RAM disk for
booting. Someone had instructions on how to convert it to a mirrored device. Since I was looking
for years worth of reliability, mirrored boot media was a goal. But, the instructions were not
trivial, (even for an experianced Unix SysAdmin such as my self). FreeNAS 9.3 changed that.
Thanks again everyone who made this happen.
