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Separate data (volume c) and system volumes
I find it hard to understand why the system volume is not an internal device instead of being resident on the drives that are placed in the chassis. An SD card or USB or something else mounted inside...
Perhaps I wrote this from the wrong direction. I guess I'd like to see two things: 1) Be able to setup and configure the NAS without any hard disks in it. 2) Be able to factory restore the OS without affecting my data (/c). Are those possible?
I understand that /c is a separate partition/mountpoint.
-redundant cards/sticks running RAID (isn't the current root volume just a mounted raid device?)
-what happens when new disks are inserted into an array? The OS has to come from somewhere. it could be loaded on to the sticks/cards the same way.
- other raid solutions (specifically zfs) have the ability to store the raid configuration on the drives themselves.
- I don't know enough about flex-raid to know why it would be different.
- I see your point about there being some challenges, but there are also some benefits and other companies have products that can do it. So it's feasible.
I understand that /c is a separate partition/mountpoint.
-redundant cards/sticks running RAID (isn't the current root volume just a mounted raid device?)
-what happens when new disks are inserted into an array? The OS has to come from somewhere. it could be loaded on to the sticks/cards the same way.
- other raid solutions (specifically zfs) have the ability to store the raid configuration on the drives themselves.
- I don't know enough about flex-raid to know why it would be different.
- I see your point about there being some challenges, but there are also some benefits and other companies have products that can do it. So it's feasible.
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