On 11/8/2013 2:40 PM, Jim Wise wrote: > It’s worth noting that FreeNAS does more or less exactly this, using a USB drive with a more-or-less read-only OS image to serve some number of spinning or flash disks. yeah, but whats on that USB stick is mostly a single file thats loaded into a ramdrive, and a single XML file thats updated when you make configuration changes, which typically isn't very often... -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast