Embedded Install on 8GB USB Stick, how to use the rest?

[Oellness]

Hello,

i'm new to Nas4Free an my first steps are very fine.
I installed the embedded version of Nas4Free on an 8GB USB Stickan it works very well.
Now i play with some scripts and i want to know if i can use the rest of the Stick as a data part?

Thanks!
Volker

[raulfg3]

It's posible but is not good idea, only if boot device is a hard Disk can be usefull for temp or not data files.

Eg: if you install a full N4F on a 40GB IDE hard Disk

http://wiki.nas4free.org/doku.php?id=do ... tup_drives

[Oellness]

Hi,

ok.
Is it a good idea to place read only scripts on the usb stick ?

How does Plugins in Jail work? Are these read and write accesses?
If they are read only too i could them place on the usb stick too.

Or is it a false thought?

My plan is to start with a single 4TB HDD in my nas and buy a second one later...
The idea behind that is that if the scripts and jails are on a data disk and these disk fails all these things for the systems are also destroyed....

Thanks!

[raulfg3]

Is it a good idea to place read only scripts on the usb stick ?

YES, my point is that is not good idea to have lot of writes on a USB key, and is not a good idea to have anythig that temp files on boot disk, because if something goes wrong and you need to reinstall Nas4Free your second partition is lose, so you lose your scripts.

How does Plugins in Jail work?

store Jail in DATA disk so in case of reinstall, this jails can survive and works fine, only need to recover previosly saved config (one xlm file), and DATA disk do not have write problems like USB sticks have.

The idea behind that is that if the scripts and jails are on a data disk and these disk fails all these things for the systems are also destroyed....

in a real world, the OS (boot disk) is normally destroyed/lose before you lose data disk, my ZFS pool ( with my valuable data), have survive, 2 mainboard changes, and 2 SATA controller changes , and several disk fail (I only have one disk fail at a time, if I lose 2 disk I really lose my pool, but is nor the case).