Wow! first off, congrats on figuring this out and thanks for posting details here for others. I am glad to be of help with the new installer. 3.8-0 iso will go public very soon, great to have it validated by you right in time.
I do want to understand your setup a little better though. How does your final partition table look like?
you are great, my friend! Thanks. I understand it completely now. I have a few questions for you though.
In case of a failure of one of the msata cards or the lycom card, you still need to power down the machine to replace the failed ones correct? It may be quicker to do that than a reinstall, I agree, but won’t save you that much time right? Given that your / is only ~24GB, you are not really using them to store data besides the OS, i suppose?
I am working on an issue(#534) right now that let’s you import pools, shares and snapshots on non-root drive from a previous install. Soon, we’ll also support exporting configuration(#663) which will let you import state from a previous install such as users, groups, samba configurations etc… With this approach, it could take a little longer to recover as you not only need to replace the failed root drive, but also reinstall Rockstor and import.
I am curious to get your feedback on pros and cons of both approaches.
BTW, Thanks for providing names of msata and raid card parts. I want to try them The lycom card is not available on amazon or newegg on the first glance, however.
Yes it just gives me some redundancy. There’s four msata ports on the card and only two are populated, so I might go super-paranoid and fit the two extra drives and mirror across the lot.
I’ve no idea of msata or this card is hot swappable, but I’d prolly have to pull it out anyway as physical access is a bit cramped.
When export config is available I’ll prolly put that USB thumb drive back in and use it for backup!
I bought the card from scan.co.uk and the drives from amazon.co.uk. You ought to be able to find something similar - I believe StarTech do one…
The lycom card is not available on amazon or newegg on the first glance, however.