NASLite Network Attached Storage

I built a new Atom based machine specifically to run M2, and it's been great so far. The only caveat is that the Realtek 8111E gigabit chipset the motherboard uses doesn't seem to be supported; a problem easily fixed by throwing a Netgear 311 card in there and defeating the onboard NIC in BIOS.

I've set up disk mirroring so disk-2 is a mirror of disk-1, and at 00 hours UTC, it does it's thing exactly as expected. I don't want anyone writing to Disk-2 by accident or purposefully however, so if I do not export Disk-2, will the mirror still take place as scheduled? I was unable to determine this from the documentation, and don't really want to force the issue as an exercise in abstract knowledge acquisition either.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Jim

OK, answering my own question to some degree here. I guess I am to accustomed to thinking mirror non-raid disk on linux = dd, whereas M2 is clearly using rsync. So indeed the drive must be mounted by the OS for this to occur.

But that brings up another question; for naslite, are "exported" and "mounted" equivalent terms? That is -- does M2 always mount the drive for it's own internal purposes, or only when exported?

A disk should be mounted for export in order for NASLite to use it as a mirror Target. All filesystem level operations require that.