I don’t expect it to work from the TrueNAS UI, but do you mean to say that I would not be able to mount an exFAT fileystem from the terminal either? I’m not terminal averse.
Sorry? Not sure what to make of this…
Read the rest of the paragraph.
The exFAT file system may or may not work with TrueNAS. And that may change version to version of TrueNAS. In essence, since exFAT is not a supported feature, the developers may leave it in the state base Debian has it, or purposefully remove it.
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To test it out I formatted a USB stick as exFAT and was able to mount it in TrueNAS:
truenas_admin@truenas[/]$ sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/external -o uid=950,gid=950,umask=000
I could try to add something to /etc/fstab but I won’t assume that it would survive a system update. That’s where I have more to learn about TrueNAS.
I don’t know if it would survive a reboot even, but I’ll test that tomorrow. I have a SMART test running currently on my new disks.
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That makes sense, thanks! I was thinking “Debian is Debian, so why not?”
Great.
Just keep in mind that could change with an update.
Further, copies from ZFS Datasets to exFAT backup disks might not copy all the file attributes properly. That was one reason why FAT disk import was removed. Too much work afterwards to make the files have suitable attributes, (like owner, group, etc…), for Samba shares.
But, if you don’t care about file attributes, just the files and data inside the files, then that might work, for now.
Yes and no.TrueNAS is not a Linux distro based on Debian. It is a curated list of packages from Debian, needed for TrueNAS. Then additional packages are added, like OpenZFS and the TrueNAS software. In fact, in order prevent NAS functionality breakage, TrueNAS CE / SCALE has package management disabled by default. And some of the OS file systems mounted R/O. So not standard Debian.
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