I am sure that this has been discussed before, but I seem to not be able to find it

[etorix]

I have to waste an entire drive just for booting?

This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. With the advent of TrueNAS Scale, we seem to be getting a large number of people from the Linux community who are not quite grasping what TrueNAS is. TrueNAS is not a “Linux distro” and it is not designed to try to meet your arbitrarily spec’d use cases. TrueNAS is an appliance firmware for storage, which happens to be built on top of FreeB…