ZPool not mounting at boot

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 at 14:58, J. Paul Bissonnette <jpaulb at eastlink.ca> wrote:
> >
>
> Have you published any where how to build one?

It was in my first message, the root of the thread:

> I built this in May, described here:
> https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/71093.html

> A Synology DS1813+ I have dies and their "Support team" politely
> informed me that after the warranty period there is no parts, no
> service and absolutely no support. Now I have an almost mint paper
> weight sans Mobo.

To be honest, yes, this is why I do not have or use dedicated NAS
devices. They are quite expensive, and many run proprietary OSes, so
if the motherboard dies, you can't get the data off the disks.

I have certainly used proprietary hardware RAID controllers in
production servers, but _because_ they are production machines, they
were regularly backed up and most lived on UPSes.

My home boxes do not. I am too cheap. :-)

I have a vague plan to upgrade the RAM in my elderly HP Microserver,
put bigger disks in it, and run TrueNAS Core on it. I was considering
running VMware ESXi on it and having it do other things too, but wiser
people than I told me that this is violating the KISS principle and
that if I want to do things like that, TrueNAS is not what I want.

In the past I have often found cheap clever technical solutions to
avoid buying fancy dedicated hardware. Some worked, some did not.

One of the distinguishing factors is that a clever solution that does
one thing well, using cheap off-the-shelf bits and FOSS, can often
succeed. If you look at the commercial/proprietary products, often
they are based on some off-the-shelf tech – such as Linux running on a
cheap CPU.

If so, sure, why not do it yourself? :-)

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