Boot partition on SD Card

[Arwen]

@jt_telrite

“Chain booting” is exactly what we need. If you have sway with actual truenas folks then maybe you could open an entire new niche of users. If proxmox an extremely i/o intensive application supports it…

Two comments:

1. TrueNAS was written for the Enterprise Data Center market. Many features for that market are usable for small office and home users. However, SOHO users pay nothing for development directly. (In essence, TrueNAS free users do alpha and beta testing…)
   
   While supporting chain booting or odd boot devices, (SD-Cards, eMMC, NAND Flash, etc…), would be reasonable for some open source projects, iX sells both sides for their Enterprise customers. That’s both software and hardware, (with suitable boot devices). Thus, no test bed for such devices, let alone business need.

2. Not sure what ProxMox does with it’s boot device. Nor how active it is on the boot device. But, if it truly is writing to a SD-Card and the SD-Card is not failing quickly, (like within a year), that boggles the mind. Most cheap USB Flash & SD-Cards have low write endurance and wear out quickly.