Hello,
I currently have a whitebox server build that's running Ubuntu 20.04 acting as a NAS and Media Server. I've been waiting to switch over to TrueNAS SCALE since the announcement and with the RC release, I'm thinking the time is right.
However, the current Ubuntu install has been running for many years and I don't want to try and wipe it straightaway and move to SCALE. So I'm thinking I'll try to install SCALE on a USB drive for a few days as a dual boot to test out things and then switch over. However, I'm a little unsure about some things and would appreciate any advice people can share:
I currently have a whitebox server build that's running Ubuntu 20.04 acting as a NAS and Media Server. I've been waiting to switch over to TrueNAS SCALE since the announcement and with the RC release, I'm thinking the time is right.
However, the current Ubuntu install has been running for many years and I don't want to try and wipe it straightaway and move to SCALE. So I'm thinking I'll try to install SCALE on a USB drive for a few days as a dual boot to test out things and then switch over. However, I'm a little unsure about some things and would appreciate any advice people can share:
- I've seen the documentation on importing pools, which states that this can import pools created on another system. My question is whether this is a one-way process? When importing the pool into SCALE, will it change the metadata in some way such that I cannot mount it under the Ubuntu install anymore? I've looked at the ZFS feature flag list and it seems like edonr encryption is the one thing one my pool that CORE cannot import, but I'm assuming that won't be an issue with SCALE.
- Is there some documentation on the Console Setup CLI? Specifically around the parameters for creating LAGG & VLAN interfaces as this seems to be the recommended way to do it per the docs.
- My current install has a couple of bonded interfaces setup in 802.3ad mode - is this the default used for SCALE as well?
- How do I specify the route metric for an interface? In Ubuntu using netplan I can specify a "metric" parameter, but I'm not how to configure this via the Console Setup
- How do I define that these interfaces should get their IP addresses via DHCP?