ZPool not mounting at boot

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 at 01:28, J. Paul Bissonnette <jpaulb at eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> Excuse me for interrupting do you have any experience with freNAS? I was thinking of using it.

Personally, very little. However, friends use it and recommend it.

Note:
* it's been discontinued -- now it's called TrueNAS, and TrueNAS Core
is the free version.
* It's based on FreeBSD, not Linux

There is a FreeBSD for the RasPi, but building a NAS server is a
strictly DIY operation and I don't know FreeBSD well. So I chose
Ubuntu which I am very familiar with.

I am only aware of one NAS OS for the Raspberry Pi: Open Media Vault.

I have looked at OMV before and it wasn't really what I wanted. E.g. I
don't stream media from the Pi at all. It's based on Debian, and it
doesn't use ZFS.

Also, at the time I built my server, OMV did not support the RasPi 4 yet.

If at some point there is a real native TrueNAS port for the Pi,
perhaps for the 8GB Pi 4, then I might redo this server on that basis.
It would be a lot less work.

However, mine works, and I'm happy with it. It's silent, it was cheap
to build, reliability and performance are passable -- OK for home use.

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