Hi Tom,
Please create a forum post and include the exact steps you took. If possible, please include any screenshots!
http://www.truenas.com/community
No. Because TrueNAS uses snapshots that are a point in time to replicate, and because the replicated data is not r/w without mounting it as such this is not possible. You are looking for an array with synchronous replication. Even then how that failover works is highly dependent on the upper layers.
]]>Double check that your paths are not overlapping and if the issue continues, please consider a forum post with a description of the paths in each share.
]]>Proxmox will indeed support TrueNAS and this forum post will provide you some tips: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/freenas-on-proxmox-whats-the-current-state-of-play.84287/
]]>Do you mean “root directory”? Are sub-directories working for you?
]]>On TrueNAS CORE 12, both options are in System: General
Note the checkbox: [ ] Web Interface HTTP -> HTTPS Redirect
Andy,
If you are using a hardware RAID controller, no, FreeNAS, nor any other virtual machine will see the individual disks or know if one has failed. The optimal configuration if you only have a hardware RAID controller is to make a RAID 0 “array” of each disk, and pass those over to FreeNAS. You will not see SMART data, but you will have proper block-level access and a failure will be correctly detected.
iSCSI HA is on the table, but may not be included on initial release. Right now focus is on multi-channel SMB and of course native glusterfs client access (the most optimal method). The official gluster docs even recommend this method for iSCSI if you are curious:
https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator-Guide/GlusterFS-iSCSI/#running-the-iscsi-target-on-the-gluster-client
Right now the majority of API work to support gluster is already merged into the TrueNAS SCALE nightly images. Most of the GUI work is taking place inside of TrueCommand, and is shaping up nicely. Cluster creation is already supported, and we’re fleshing out other aspects of it. I’ll be doing a forum post on the status, as well as some screenshots in the coming weeks.
Hi Daniel,
We have updated the blog so please go see the note next to the link!
That’s just a minor cosmetic bug that will be updated once the Enterprise train is up!
]]>Thank you for your support, Radu!
]]>Several weeks later and the jira link still isn’t working.
]]>Thanks for the guide and thanks to Falk for showing the simplified steps with TrueNAS 12.
But is it normal that the wg IP is “taking over” and you cannot reach the TrueNAS device with the IP belonging to the NIC?
Mini models are rated for 7W and below drives. At 7.6W for the IronWolf Pro 16TB, you may have issues.
]]>Have you tried a manual update? That should work around it.
]]>This is a popular request and while this is not planned for the initial release, you could submit a feature request.
]]>First be sure that you are accessing a dataset below the top level of the pool, rather than the pool directly. You should be able to drag and drop files between any two folders on that dataset but if you are dragging between datasets, they are treated like two separate file systems and the files will be copied, rather than moved. Does that answer your question?
]]>Try adding both users to a Group and assigning permission to read and/or write to that dataset to the Group.
]]>We suggest that you create a dataset below the top level of the pool and copy your files to it. This will give you full permissions control and not conflict with the system dataset or Plugin datasets. You may need to copy and delete the files in steps if you pool does not have the available space to copy everything at once. Doing so will also allow you to snapshot and replicate that dataset independently of the others.
]]>Matt,
If your hardware RAID card does not support HBA mode, you can generally create a single disk stripe of each disk, and be sure to disable any write caches. Many cards will mask SMART data from the disks but this will give ZFS full control of them. If this is not an option, a dedicated HBA as simple as the LSI SAS9211-8i or better, plus cables, is the best way to go. A zpool on independent disks is portable between FreeNAS/TrueNAS systems, and even other operating systems that support ZFS. On the other hand, many RAID cards are very particular about tying the specific card and its firmware version to the configured disks.
Hi Simon,
We need more information to assist you. Can you create a forum post and include as many details as possible?
http://www.truenas.com/community
Hi Aaron,
It is difficult to help with this on here. Can you create a forum post? You can create it here: http://www.truenas.com/community
Please include some more details and some screenshots.
We have updated the release notes link and we will be updating the jira link soon.
]]>No, they are separate products!
]]>TrueNAS CORE is proven for production use while the key upcoming features of TrueNAS SCALE are Linux containers and scale-out, rather than up storage. The main page provides a comparison of the key features: https://www.truenas.com/
]]>Yes, Intel / Nvidia passthrough to containers is working well and the GUI elements are being finalized.
]]>We see your ticket and it has been addressed. Please try the latest version of 12.0.
]]>This generally indicates that your installation is corrupt or the boot media is failing. Consider a fresh installation to a new device and uploading your configuration file.
]]>This generally indicates that your installation is corrupt or the boot media is failing. Consider a fresh installation to a new device and uploading your configuration file.
]]>Is your use case for your NAS to sleep at night? Many motherboards have a “daily schedule” and you should be able to shutdown and have the BIOS wake it on a schedule, or use Wake on LAN (WOL). If sleep is the only solution, please share your use case to this ticket: https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-106687
]]>Did you apply permissions recursively to the dataset?
]]>ClamAV is likely not running as root. Try running ps -aux to see running processes and their users. You can also run ps -aux | grep clam to clean up the output some.
]]>We suggest you try using SMB home shares to achieve this.
]]>VDEV expansion is making progress and will hopefully land in the coming months!
]]>It’s probably easier to just add multiple ACL’s for each user. For this to work the system that accesses these needs to be able to look up group membership.
]]>Hi Sam,
Yes, we do! Please email sales@ixsystems.com with your inquiry!
So – can changes be updated to dropbox if I edit files thru SMB share on TrueNas server?
Or is it the case mentioned in comment in this thread by:
Sirui on December 1, 2019 at 3:54 am
Hi,
Do you have partners in the Philippines?
cheers
It’s difficult to pinpoint what the issue may be. Could you create a forums post here? Please include as many details as you can.
http://www.truenas.com/community
It is quite challenging to pinpoint what the exact issue is. Could you create a post on our forums site and include as many details as possible?
http://www.truenas.com/community
It is ready for production use! Check out the bottom of the release notes. https://www.truenas.com/docs/hub/intro/release-notes/tn12_0u1/#known-issues
]]>It is ready for production use! Check out the bottom of the release notes. https://www.truenas.com/docs/hub/intro/release-notes/tn12_0u1/#known-issues
]]>Have you tried upgrading to TrueNAS CORE?
]]>This is a great question for the forums! You can get input from other community users.
http://www.truenas.com/community
So, is the known issue just cosmetic (fake warning) or true/valid?
ie. Is this ready for production or not?
Still unclear if TrueNAS 12.0 Update U1 is ready for production despite the warning or not.
Would you please advice? Thanks
Installation fails to reach the “Console Setup” screen, with the system rebooting.
Is there a method that I can use to view the install log on the usb installer ??
We’ll ask the Dev Team!
]]>This is our documentation on FreeNAS, it mirrors TrueNAS. Check this out for more information on the boot menu: https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/11.3-U5/install.html
]]>This is a known issue and is being addressed! https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-108580
]]>TrueNAS 12.0-U1 has been released!
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/truenas-12-0-u1/
It’s cause it is now under a single unified image!
]]>The UI should offer you the STABLE version now. Are you still only seeing the nightlies?
]]>WD Red Plus drives are CMR-type and are fine for NAS. It is the less-expensive WD Red drives that are SMR (Shingle Magnetic Recording), and that have extremely long (i.e. unreliable) resilvering times.
]]>Thank you for your support and for voting for us! It means a lot! Go TrueNAS!
]]>The vCenter plugin is only available for TrueNAS Enterprise. Here is an overview video on it: https://youtu.be/PBh07FbEmNw
]]>Hi Andrew,
Yes, we have partners in Europe who can assist you. Please email our Sales Team at sales@ixsystems.com with your inquiry!
Adding additional drives to a RAIDZ vdev has been investigated for a long time. I do not believe any of the ZFS developers at iXsystems or elsewhere are pursuing this as a current high priority. To answer your question in a realistic way (rather than simply hopeful) I’d say “Much later, possibly never”.
]]>it doesn’t tell you how to install the plugin?
]]>I had the same problem too. Just give the cloud credential a name and the “Verify Credential” button will light up allowing you to continue
]]>Hi Aditya,
We’re having a bit of trouble understanding your question. Do you mind restating your question?
Hi Sylvain,
Please email our Sales Team with your inquiry! They can provide you a no-pressure quote and answer any questions you have.
Email is Sales@ixsystems.com
Yes, it will be a feature!
It is also a feature in TrueNAS CORE 12.0
Please file a ticket for this here! jira.ixsystems.com
]]>So CORE does not have it in the UI. The TrueNAS Enterprise license is required to expose it on the UI.
]]>You can try setting the backing dataset to read-only.
I suggest searching through our forums and if you can’t find anything on this, try posting this question for more input from community members!
http://www.ixsystems.com/community
No, you don’t need to add both. You are correct, all users with the group specified in the auxiliary group list will receive those permissions.
]]>TrueNAS does not support active-active replication at this time but a frequent snapshot and replication schedule between 5 and 15 minutes gives most users the RPO they desire without the chance of a problem being sent to two systems simultaneously.
]]>Will TrueNAS scale?
]]>This may indicate something went wrong with the Plex Media Server installation. Assuming you installed via plugin, try restarting the plugin. If that does not work, try reinstalling the plugin entirely and watch out for any errors.
]]>This is not quite ready for prime time. Please check out this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/freenas/comments/erluap/how_to_enable_wireguard_on_freenas_113/
]]>You will need to add an @Everyone ACL to the dataset you are sharing for this to work.
]]>SMB sharing to macOS is very popular with the one limitation that Spotlight is not fully supported.
]]>You’re welcome! Glad we could help out!
]]>Can you try removing it by going to System > Certificates?
]]>Yes, we have partners in Europe! Please email our Sales Team at sales@ixsystems.com with your inquiry.
]]>Stay tuned for the RELEASE version!
]]>Thank you for your support, Robert! That means a lot to us and is appreciated greatly. We’re so glad that FreeNAS has been able to aid you in the creative sector.
Again, thank you very much for your support. Keep calm and TrueNAS on!
You’re welcome! Glad we can help!
You can always refer to our user guide as well: https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/
First, I’d make sure you’re on 11.3-U4.1. There were two fixes regarding Google Drive and Team Drive ID’s specifically. If it’s still not showing up in the UI, try specifying the folder path manually instead of using the dropdown.
]]>We’re sorry you’re having so much trouble. Have you watched this video from Lawrence Systems (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDs0DLj7J9w) or this official one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCfX4sqDmzs)?
]]>Keep the owner user as desired. If there is not one already, add an owner@ and group@ ACL with your desired permissions. Add an explicit entry for a user set as the ID 972 in the ACL manager. It may coexist with all your other ACL’s. Hope that helps!
]]>Thank you for your support, Jarred.
Your support means a lot to us and we thank you for sticking with us for a long time! We can’t wait for you to try out the Release version of TrueNAS CORE. The safety of your data means everything to us so we appreciate the ongoing support.
Yes, nothing is removed. NVDIMMs will work in CORE. However, in the enterprise version, we manage them and make HA possible.
]]>Hi Saleh,
Our VP of Engineering, Kris Moore, explains the process here: https://youtu.be/U8XpvOmEADA
Hope it helps to clarify some things.
Hi Aloysius,
That’s a great suggestion. Please create a suggestion ticket here for our Engineering Team: jira.ixsystems.com
Hi Guilherme,
That’s a great suggestion. Please create a suggestion ticket here for the Engineering Team: jira.ixsystems.com
What exactly does this mean? We can still use the current workaround, but just won’t see it in the UI?
]]>I would also like to know the answer for this question, please don’t ignore it.
Will TrueNAS Core support a SLOG on NVDIMM storage like Intels Optane DCPMM?
I am also wondering this very same question.
Please don’t ignore it.
Will TrueNAS Core be able to use a SLOG on NVDIMM such as Intels Optane DCPMM?
Hello,
Can we have a separate web portal for users where they can check the files they have uploaded?
It will be the same like we access through the explorer but here the user will be logging into the web brower, Enter the desired login credentials and have access only to his area?
We need more information to assist you. Can you post this question onto the forums? https://www.ixsystems.com/community/forums/truenas-general.115/
Please include any other details.
Try asking this question on our forums! You’ll get more eyes on it from the FreeNAS Community.
http://www.ixsystems.com/community
Hi Damian,
This is a good question for the forums. Please post your question here: http://www.ixsystems.com/community
This isn’t quite ready yet. Check out this thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/freenas/comments/erluap/how_to_enable_wireguard_on_freenas_113/
]]>Hi Fancesco,
We’re having trouble translating your message so it’s quite difficult to understand the questions… Can you try posting your question onto our forums here? https://www.ixsystems.com/community/forums/italian-italiano.30/
Hi Joon
I’ve read the blog but no where in article explaining how development process will work.
From article
“There will be two different editions: TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise. Without any license keys, TrueNAS CORE provides all the same, unrestricted FreeNAS functionality you know and love, while the source code will still be Open Source and forever free to use. TrueNAS Enterprise will enable an extended feature set using a license key on supported platforms. This move elevates FreeNAS to the enterprise-grade quality levels of TrueNAS to further cement its position as the world’s #1 Open Storage OS”
Note the checkbox “Enable Two-Factor Auth for SSH” in the 2FA configuration page. Enabling that should provide you OTP over SSH. If not, please open a ticket (jira.ixsystems.com) to report it.
]]>Hi Ric,
Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLG-Dth6VHY
You can update from FreeNAS to TrueNAS CORE via the web UI.
Thank you for your support! We can’t wait for you to try out the new features.
This never really got answered 🙂 NVME and dual port SAS are both listed under enterprise only – my zeusram and NVME M.2 drives haven’t stopped working, but it would be nice to know they won’t in future!
]]>It’s beta software. Bugs aren’t a disaster. They are the reason for beta testing.
]]>Author of the blog post here.
Plex creates the plex user automatically during package installation. What version of Plex are you running and have you manually specified another user? Check via running “cat /etc/rc.conf” in the jail. With Plex running, inside the jail run “ps -awx -l” and look for the Plex proccesses. The UID number will be displayed next to it. Take note of that number and use it in place of “972” in the ACL creation wizard as depicted in the blog post. Make sure to apply recursively.
Hi there Rafael,
Yes, TrueNAS SCALE is the Linux variant. Are you asking if you could upgrade from FreeNAS 11.3 straight to TrueNAS SCALE?
Thank you for your support! Stay tuned for the RELEASE version!
]]>Thank you for your feedback and we’re sorry to hear that and understand how frustrating that is. TrueNAS CORE is in its BETA phase so we’re still working out all of the details. If you have time, can you send us more information? You can send it to joon@ixsystems.com. It would help us out!
You can also file bug tickets if you come across any bugs here: jira.ixsystems.com
No, it’ll be the same as FreeNAS. There are no size/disk limitation to TrueNAS CORE or TrueNAS SCALE.
]]>FiberChannel is a feature for TrueNAS Enterprise only in the UI.
]]>It is possible to run CORE on SCALE or SCALE on CORE but since they both want native access to disks, not much sense in doing that.
]]>Thank you for your support! We’ll release more information about TrueNAS SCALE as time goes on.
]]>We understand where you’re coming from. However, the decision process for this logo was a long journey and we put a lot of thought into it. In time, we hope you can see that it’s a good logo.
]]>“TrueNAS Open Storage” (the top logo) is the umbrella brand for all of the different editions (CORE, Enterprise, SCALE)
]]>You’re probably referring to TrueNAS Open Storage. It’s the term we use for our TrueNAS product line so TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise fall under it (literally, check the graphic~).
]]>It was our abstract take on the shark logos.
]]>No FreeNAS features will change or be taken away. Only new features will be added to TrueNAS CORE.
]]>No, TrueNAS CORE does not support GPU passthrough.
]]>Thank you for your support, Kenneth!
]]>Thank you for your support. Trust us when we say that we spent a ton of time thinking about and discussing the new logos. Hopefully, this blog gives the community a glimpse of our thought process.
]]>1. Representing “scale out” storage
2. Only once they hire Gavin Belson as CEO 😉
3. Not obsolete! It’s what’s called a “throwback” in sports terminology. It gives you more street cred as someone who was a fan long before they went big time!
You can find all of the features for TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise here: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-core-features/
]]>Thank you for your support! Glad it helped you out.
]]>Will TrueNas Core support vfio gpu passthrough for hardware acceleration in VM’s?
]]>You can check out all the features that are coming to TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise here: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-core-features/
]]>It sounds like you’re trying to put a suggestion in. If so, please fill out a ticket here: https://jira.ixsystems.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa
]]>Hi Jitendra,
This is a good question for the Sales Team. Please reach out to sales@ixsystems.com with your inquiry.
Thank you for your support!
]]>Thank you for your support, Tayfun. Go #OpenSource!
]]>Uh, emm. actually i do not have a question. just found out, that the blog post my be outdated or is not working like described and provided the fix already.
So, no Question, just a hint for future readers. And maybe we have a chance to update the blog post?
Enterprise only features column, Data Acceleration row in the feature matrix above!
https://gyazo.com/ea7811c53628b08363c354da60c5d2af
Thank you for your support, Gary. Go Open Source!
]]>Hi Saleh,
We have a blog explaining what the unification will mean for FreeNAS and TrueNAS.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/
Please file a ticket here: jira.ixsystems.com!
Might be a permissions issue on Dropbox’s end. You can submit a thread on their forums as well.
No, there’s no reason that shouldn’t be supported after the upgrade.
]]>Joshua, check out this thread: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/ssd-for-caching-question.49060/
Also, how much RAM is in your system?
Thank you for your support, Mark! Feel free to send us some photos of your builds (info@ixsystems.com) and include build photos in the subject line.
Here’s our most recent blog about the features in TrueNAS CORE: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-core-features/
Wait, so we are removing features now? I also use this feature in freenas.
]]>We list the features available for TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise here: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-core-features/
]]>Check out what features will be available for TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-core-features/
Check out what features will be available with TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-core-features/
Check out what features will be available with TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-core-features/
Vinicius,
Check out the TrueNAS CORE Features blog to see what features will be available in CORE and Enterprise.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-core-features/
In our TrueNAS CORE Features blog, we have a matrix that breaks down what features will be available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-core-features/
No problem!
]]>Simon, there’s no reason that it shouldn’t be supported after the upgrade. Can you let us know which section caused the confusion?
]]>Simon, please stay tuned for more information on TrueNAS CORE. We’ve submitted your question to the Engineering Team in the meantime.
]]>Francky, please try searching it up on our forums. The answer might be there already.
http://www.ixsystems.com/community
Please stay tuned for more information. We’ll release more information as time goes on.
]]>That’s great! Glad you found this guide useful.
]]>If the word is blue, then it is a new feature. For example, “2Factor” is a new feature (it’s under “Jails, Plugins, VMs”).
]]>All new writes go to the in-RAM Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC) which has a sophisticated retention policy. So yes, that client should read from RAM shortly after writing. The SLOG is technically a log in the database sense because its writes are guaranteed to be on persistent storage, but the effect is that of a flash-memory based cache.
]]>Stay tuned for more information on TrueNAS Enterprise. We’ll be releasing more information as times goes on.
]]>Sure, but I have been tinkering with things a bit and the 972 user vanished? Everything permission-wise is still behaving as it did 5 days ago.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AumWINbJDlGvgY8VpCtc5mRZVcf-Ww?e=nVX0yZ
Could you post a screen shot of your ACL management screen?
]]>That is not yet a supported feature but we suggest you request it via a support ticket. You could move the files based on age to an excluded folder to achieve the result you want.
Submit Feature Request Here
Hi, Phonix. I did some tests with VMware RDM mapping and FreeNAS awhile back and it did cause data corruption under heavy load (although this was with older hardware and an older version of VMware). Also anytime a drive would fail it was a pain to re-create the RDM mapping to replace the drive. It’s much simpler to give FreeNAS direct access to disks.
]]>Thank you for your support and kind words! We appreciate it. It’s fantastic to see our products being such a benefit to you. Go Open Source! Stay tuned for TrueNAS Open Storage!
]]>Please try posting this question on the FreeNAS Community forums.
http://www.ixsystems.com/community
No cards are supported.
]]>Elcio,
Please try posting this on the forums. http://www.ixsystems.com/community
At the moment, it can be installed and ran on FreeBSD but there is no port for it. There is a rc.d script for it on the SickChill GitHub though. We see far more people run Sonarr (there’s a plugin) that fulfills much of the same functions.
]]>“Although the motherboard has a PCIe slot, it is disabled by the CPU/chipset to maximize SATA device connectivity.”
So, no 10Gbps card?
Yes, you can definitely use an iSCSI target provided by FreeNAS for use as a VMware RDM device. Just make sure the disks come up in Storage > Devices, then on a VM click add hard disk, click raw disk, and select one of the iSCSI disks.
]]>I meant VMware RDM – raw device mapping
]]>Thank you for your support! That’s great news!
]]>What version of FreeNAS are you trying to install?
]]>Thank you for your support, Jeffrey. We understand your concern and we are big on our commitment to keeping it open source and available for the community. Please stay tuned for more information on TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise.
]]>Thank you for your suggestion. Please stay tuned for more information on TrueNAS Open Storage.
]]>Thank you for your support, Markus! Stay tuned for more information about TrueNAS CORE!
]]>Hello,
We are having trouble translating your question. Can you try typing your question in English? You can also try posting it here: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/forums/chinese-%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87.60/
Stay tuned for more information on version 12.0.
]]>Please stay tuned for more information on TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise.
]]>Please stay tuned for more information on TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise.
]]>Can’t I make the same monolithic argument about network manager (in implementation) and systemd (in principle)?
]]>Thank you for your support! We’re excited to roll this out!
]]>Thanks for your support!
]]>Have you checked out our GitHub page? https://github.com/freenas/freenas/pulls
Here’s some more information on how you can lend a helping hand: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/plugins-development/
Please try posting your question on the forums. http://www.ixsystems.com/community
If the problem still persists, please file a bug ticket. http://www.jira.ixsystems.com
Please stay tuned for more information on TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise!
]]>Thank you for your support, Alessio!
]]>Yes, of course. Stay tuned for more information on TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise in the coming months!
]]>Please stay tuned for more information. We’ll release more information in the coming months.
]]>Stay tuned for more information. We’ll release the information as time goes on!
]]>ah, thanks 🙂
]]>Check out this Reddit posting! May have the answer you’re looking for! https://www.reddit.com/r/freenas/comments/fdx8rj/freenas_and_truenas_are_unifying/
]]>Yes, we’ll be releasing more information about TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise as time goes on.
]]>Unfortunately, no. We only sell TrueNAS as a complete storage appliance with both the software and hardware. We cannot sell the TrueNAS OS separately. Please contact our Sales Team for more information.
Email: sales@ixsystems.com
We’ll keep that in mind for future releases! Thank you for your support!
]]>Totally Agree!
]]>Might want to try adding the remote DNS as a second DNS in network manager on Linux or editing the /etc/resolv.conf file with another nameserver.
]]>We don’t recommend keeping your media or any other data in the root pool, given that it home to iocage itself and the .system dataset. Moving your media to a dedicated dataset should solve the problem.
]]>It’s so satisfying when an issue resolves itself!
]]>I’ve just checked again and the Edit ACL option is now there! I had only just updated to FreeNAS-11.3-RELEASE and it appears that a period of time was required for the web interface to update.
]]>The link is updated! Please try it now and let us know if it works for you.
]]>Andrew,
This is a great question for the forums. Try posting it on there to get your question more exposure.
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/forums/networking.22/
Move your dataset off the root? Set a mount point to the original path if you are worried about breaking paths you have set in Plex.
]]>Unfortunately, no. This is a tutorial on how to set up Wireguard, not ZeroTier.
Please try posting your question on the forums! http://www.ixsystems.com/community
I would rather it NOT become GPL as the GPL is a restrictive license. Leave it as BSD or even Apache.
]]>Can you fill out a bug ticket? Are you on the most recent update of FreeNAS (11.3-RELEASE)? https://jira.ixsystems.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa
]]>Isaiah,
iptables is for Linux. FreeNAS is a FreeBSD based system so that command won’t work.
Might be worth a comment in https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-104985?jql=text%20~%20%22minio%22
]]>Please help to confirm you are using a valid Gmail address with permissions open allowing for apps to be added to your account. On the browser side, also verifying it is an up-to-date (Chrome, Firefox) version and isn’t preventing pop-ups may also be necessary – the login will open in a pop-up window.
]]>Thank you for your support!
]]>Thank you for your support, Sa1eh!
]]>Here’s a thread you can check out: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/step-by-step-to-install-openvpn-inside-a-jail-in-freenas-11-1-u1.61681/
]]>I have updated to 11.3 stable and this issue with MINIO SSL is still present. Where can I raise a bug regarding this so that it can get looked at?
]]>While we investigate, will 8.0.4-p3 do? http://www.getfr.org/pub/iso/freeNAS/8.0.4-p3/
]]>Good question. We’re investigating.
]]>Thanks for letting me know, I was thinking that I am doing something wrong.
No I not raised the bug but I have found a previous mention of it in the bug tracker but must have been for a previous release.
Thank you for your support!
]]>Thanks for your support!
]]>There must be a bug in 11.3RC2 as i cannot set the cert either. Have you raised in their bug tracker?
]]>Stay tuned!
]]>Feel free to lobby the developers! The better it works on FreeBSD, the easier it is to package as a Plugin.
]]>Yes, I am using it in Virtual Machine (Win10). It would be a nice performance boost if I could put it in Jail like a plugin.
]]>Agreed. In the end I had to move away from the way I was previously using Dropbox, which ultimately is a good thing from a data security perspective. I now use Nextcloud for access to my files as needed, which has replaced most of the Dropbox functionality (so far) and solely use Dropbox as an offsite backup my encrypted data .
]]>Head to the shell, use the ‘top’ command to see which process rclone is running as and kill it using the kill command followed by the process number. E.g. ‘kill ‘
]]>JRiver stated in 2003 that they did not support FreeBSD and thus FreeNAS, and this does not appear to have changed. Are you using it on FreeBSD?
]]>Yes, the time start and time end are referring to the time your system starts and ends taking the snapshots. You can set the frequency to your liking. So if you only need to create a snapshot once a week, set it to that timeframe.
]]>However, being able to kill the service after it is running without having to reboot would be nice. In figuring out the right way I wanted to backup folders in DB I changed my mind a couple of times. Would be nice to kill the current running task without being an shell expert.
]]>@jemmi We’re sorry to hear about that, can you please open a ticket in jira.ixsystems.com with the debug log.
Thanks.
Can you let us know what’s wrong with it? It’s working fine on our end.
]]>Please send an email to sales@ixsystems.com!
]]>Hey,
There were no tools used, just theoretical numbers calculated!
Installing UniFi Controller on a FreeBSD jail is pretty simple, even if there’s no plugin for it. All you have to do is create a bare jail, access it either through its console or ssh, and install the net-mgmt/unify5 package. You might have to look into enabling the default FreeBSD package repository for that, I don’t recall off the top of my head, but other than that you’re literally just a single ‘pkg install’ command away. I created my UniFi Controller jail like some good months ago and it’s been running like a breeze ever since.
On the other hand, you might get an outdated unify5 package, for which the only solution I found was to create my own poudriere builder in a Bhyve VM, update the port there and build it, and have the jail fetch the resulting packages from it. I’ve sent my updates to the unify5 port to its maintainer to have my changes trickle into the default FreeBSD pkg repo, but unfortunately he hasn’t responded.
9000.
Check this doc for more info: https://docs.min.io/
Pull would grab files from your Dropbox to your FreeNAS, if you are trying to move files off the FreeNAS to Dropbox you would need to set as Push.
]]>Hmm, it should be grabbing the 11.2 version of the plugin. If the issue persists after updating the OS to 11.2-U6, create a report at bugs.ixsystems.com.
]]>BETA1 is due out next week. ETA for RELEASE is early January.
]]>Any idea when 11.3 stable will be released? A ballpark date.
]]>Yes, Collections is a new feature coming in 11.3:
Click Browse a Collection to toggle the plugins list between iXsystems plugins, which receive updates every few weeks, and Community plugins.
Instructions are in the New Plugins for Testing section of https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/february-plugin-updates-and-new-plugins-for-testing/.
]]>Thanks for your support!
]]>It’s already in the Index for 11.3-BETA1.
]]>Hi Jose,
Please submit a TrueCommand ticket on jira.ixsystems.com. Please be sure to include more information about your issue. Try to include screenshots and anything else that would help our engineers quickly assist you.
SMART disk check results are already included in the stats that TC monitors and will generate alerts as needed.
]]>OpenVPN is installed in TC but will require manual configuration.
]]>It is currently broken on 11.2 so we removed it from the Index.
]]>Hello, the main storage server connects to multiple JBOD disk array cabinets. Do you have to use HBA card? Or can it be connected through a 100G network card?
]]>Also great advice, thanks for the comment!
]]>I dont know what it was. My stuff is all statically assigned. I stopped being able to ping the jail after the update, couldnt restart the jail, went to reboot the box and both my lagg interfaces were gone. Rebooted a few more times and they came back….who knows
]]>That sounds like a DHCP error.
]]>I am also getting an error after the upgrade in my plex media server log I see this
Aug 30, 2019 17:53:07.688 [0x80ba16000] DEBUG – HttpServer: Listening on IPv6 as well as IPv4.
Aug 30, 2019 17:53:07.688 [0x80ba16000] ERROR – HttpServer: Error binding acceptor: Can’t assign requested address
Aug 30, 2019 17:53:07.688 [0x80ba16000] ERROR – HttpServer: Error opening acceptor on IPv6, falling back to IPv4: Can’t assign requested address
Aug 30, 2019 17:53:07.688 [0x80ba16000] ERROR – HttpServer: Error binding acceptor: Can’t assign requested address
Aug 30, 2019 17:53:07.688 [0x80ba16000] ERROR – Error: Unable to set up server: listen: Can’t assign requested address (N5boost10wrapexceptINS_6system12system_errorEEE)
We can’t reproduce this in our testing environment. Please create a report at bugs.ixsystems.com so we can investigate.
]]>The Sync option should be the one your looking for. Syncs any changes – new files or deleted files between the two places.
]]>Yeah, sabnzbd seems to not be getting any love anymore. For me I just created a standard jail running freebsd and then connected to the console using the command line (iocage console ) and installed sabnzbd directory from the freebsd repository using the pkg utility. Even the one in the repository is not the most current but it works and gets around not having it listed as a “plugin”.
]]>Tony, what I’ve been doing forever is to use jexec to get into the jail, stop the plexmediaserver service, run pkg upgrade, and then start the service again.
]]>Look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rLLsoW7Fbo
I’m successfully updating with this method.
That plugin hasn’t been added to the available list as it is still in Call for Testing status. Instructions for testing can be found at https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/february-plugin-updates-and-new-plugins-for-testing/.
]]>Please create a report at bugs.ixsystems.com so we can determine what in your configuration is causing the update to fail for you.
]]>Hi Jason, As I wrote that unfortunately does not work. I get an authentication error. I tried it twice with different registration credentials. Any idea why?
]]>The DS-Operator requires Java Web Start, which is no longer included in Java11. Install openjdk8 and the icedtea plugin
]]>Thanks, and it’s too bad they don’t have an appliance. Shouldn’t be too hard, though, to install it in a Linux VM.
]]>Thanks! Here’s the ticket I created:
https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-102322
There hasn’t been a ticket yet so we can investigate. If you make one, please post the issue number here.
]]>Is there any resolution to this? I am having the same issue.
]]>Hi
If you don’t mind to open a ticket with some logs, because according to the change-log this issue was fixed in version 2.5.5
Thanks!
]]>Please create a ticket at bugs.ixsystems.com and we’ll take a look at what is failing with your configuration.
]]>I cant see anything special in the log files. It just says that the update successfully finished.
I cant get a connection to the Plex Server in the Browser and anywhere else. When I try to ping the IP Adress it runs into a time limit error.
I updated from 1.15.3.858 and I am using the Plex Pass Channel.
It updates whatever was running in the jail. For example, I tested today for both a Plex instance and a Plexpass instance. If this remains an issue for you, please create a report at bugs.ixsystems.com so we can investigate what is happening with your particular configuration.
]]>Anything in /var/log/messages when you try? Does it successfully start? What sort of error do you get when you try to connect? Which Plex version did you update from?
]]>We have an open ticket: https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-100330. Still waiting on resources to make it ourselves or a community contribution to test.
]]>That helped me getting the update done but now I cant connect to my Plex Server anymore…
]]>That typically indicates that an update (possibly an incomplete one) already occurred. If you go into Storage -> Snapshot Tasks you should see a snapshot with the words “plex” and “update” in the name. Delete that snapshot and try the update again.
]]>When you register in Asigra by right click on the plugin, you will receive by e-mail link to download DS Client and documentation in iso format. So you have to mount this iso to read documentation and install the client. I do not see in iso prepackaged appliance.
]]>“Broken by design” doesn’t mean that the brokenness is deliberate (which would indeed be absurd to suggest without some pretty strong evidence), just that fundamental design decisions result in an irredeemably broken product. Two examples of this in btrfs deal with parity RAID: (1) parity isn’t checksummed, and (2) there’s a write hole.
]]>…and how often/quickly are plugins updated? If a plugin’s main port has dependencies that receive critical updates, will the plugin be updated too?
]]>Agree with that! It is possible using the command line to create multiple instances. Since they could close when the terminal is closed, we wouldn’t recommend, but for testing purposes, in FreeNAS 11.2 you can use ‘export MINIO_ACCESS_KEY=’ ‘export MINIO_SECRET_KEY=’ then ‘minio server http://:9000/dataset‘. This is unsupported at the moment, but perfectly usable if you need to set up a few more test groups. These groups should stay in the FreeNAS even if they get closed, but again this isn’t the supported way of doing things, so do NOT recommend putting any critical data in an instance just running from command line.
]]>ZFS on Linux and ZFS on Freenas both support feature flags, the problem has been that various new flags have rolled out from different vendors at different times and it’s taken a long time to reach parity between ZoL, Illumos and FreeBSD and it’s vary easy to create a pool on one system that can’t be imported on a system that doesn’t yet support the flags used by the pool. Of course you can always make a pool as an ‘older’ version but it requires effort and care. FreeBSD and ZoL can still import old Solaris 10 zpools, as long as they weren’t upgraded to a newer Oracle ZFS version post openzfs split for example.
The general goal now from what I understand is to unify the BSD and ZoL codebase into a singular unit reducing the problem and adding tools to make it easier to create portable pools.
THis is exactly what I think, so bye-bye Asigra plugin.
]]>I did that, but it’s not working and i don’t know whats going wrong. But i will look further in to it..
]]>If you have the skills you can build your own jail potentially. For example there isnt a Jackett plug-in, but there is a Freebsd package for it. I create a jail and just did a pkg install jackett along with some other configuration to get one going.
]]>You need to create this …. with register option
]]>I believe this issue has been addressed in the latest update of the plugin. I’d suggest running a plugin update and giving it another try. I would also recommend you set a static address for your plugin or a DHCP reservation.
]]>It looks like your plugin install got messed up somehow and it’s still pointing to our internal test servers. I’d suggest uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin (which has now been updated with some bug fixes).
]]>The plugin should be fully functional now! You will want to set a static IP address in the plugin’s configuration or configure a DHCP reservation on your router for best results.
]]>Everything should be working now! You’ll need to either use a static IP address or set a DHCP reservation on your router for best results.
]]>You’ll have to register the plugin with Asigra to get a login information. You can do this by clicking the ‘Register’ button on the plugin’s configuration menu (the three dots on the plugin page).
]]>You’ll have to register the plugin with Asigra to get a login information. You can do this by clicking the ‘Register’ button on the plugin’s configuration menu (the three dots on the plugin page).
]]>The plugin will set all up storage for the DS-System database and application during the install process. You’ll also want to share some space with the plugin for the backup data. Once you’re in DS-Operator, you can point it to this shared directory in the plugin’s jail.
]]>Thank you for your support, Gary!
]]>Hi, I tried my solution in a new Asigra Jail and now like you the /usr/local/www/asigra folder is empty. They must have changed the Plugin since my first try but now the messed up another part of the plugin.
Like they say third time’s the charm.
Hello,
I’m freenas newbie user (and freebsd too) , it will be very helpfull if you could explain your method , point by point.
I’m linux user and i’m little disappointed by shell option of freenas.
I know how to access but i can’t find DSOP.jnlp or /usr/local/www/asigra .
Thanks
I am getting the same error
]]>I have the same issue: 404 Not Found
nginx/1.16.0
This may be related to a known issue posted above. Make sure to check out the static IP workaround and see if that helps to fix your issue.
]]>Thank you for letting us know about the issue. We’ve passed on your feedback to the development team. In the meantime, make sure to check out the static IP workaround posted above.
]]>Thank you for letting us know about the issue. We’ve given your feedback to the development team.
]]>Can you provide me the link, please?
]]>I had the same issue using chrome… I move to edge and works!!!
]]>You can now submit tickets and feature requests at jira.ixsystems.com! We migrated our ticketing system from Redmine to Jira.
If it’s your first time signing in, you’ll have to reset your password!
Can we get a bit more information? What browser are you using?
]]>You can label the S3 object storage target as the
Here is a link from the Minio forum: https://docs.min.io/docs/how-to-use-aws-sdk-for-java-with-minio-server.html
Hope this helps!
May need to check the version. Using 11.1U5 and beyond works and the config will work at the Minio web portal log in.
]]>Seems what happened on mine is I have the plexpass version of plex and the plugin updated to the non-plexpass version and broke everything. Its like its a new system and nothing is configured.
]]>Clearly somebody doesn’t know what open-source is. Patent issues could be fixed by filing with OIN. Code base has changed enough (over 50%) that I’m pretty sure they could have their own patent now. That or somehow convince evil Oracle to put the patent for ZFS currently under CDDL license under OIN. But Oracle won’t because that isn’t the type company they are. Microsoft did for everything and no one saw that coming so who knows? But Oracle continues to be a beast that needs to be put down.
]]>FreeNAS doesn’t do any ZFS development. FreeBSD might have some feature flags that aren’t yet upstream. Both FeeeBSD and ZoL submit code upstream to OpenZFS.
Recently the FreeBSD guys announced they will be rebasing their efforts treating ZoL as upstream because that’s where the majority of ZFS development is these days.
CDDL provides patent protections that evaporate if the license starts to change. All the code that’s been replaced has been replaced with CDDL code. The project won’t switch licenses.
]]>You’ve got no clue what yo are talking about, do you…..
]]>I updated PMS_Updater and used it. I’ll try the official methods when the next Plex update comes out.
]]>Thank you for the clarification! It looks like this was the fix for that, which is coming with U2: https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/67510.
]]>If you install the Plex plugin (regular or -plexpass) it creates a jail called “Plex”. The update json file in the jail is not called plex, it is called plexmediaserver or plexmediaserver-plexpass.
Running “iocage update plex” doesn’t work for this reason. If you rename the jail to either plexmediaserver or plexmediaserver-plexpass, depending on which you installed, it does.
It’s possible this was modified in 11.2U1 – hard to say from the bug notes – but there certainly seem to be a large subset of users with this problem if the forum posts are any indication.
Were you able to resolve this? I cannot reproduce this error when I run “iocage update plex”.
]]>We’re open to suggestions on how to improve the Release Notes as they are meant to be a comprehensive but succint messaging for end-users so they know what to expect in a release and how changes impact them.
]]>We’re figuring out the best way to handle that for 11.3: warn the user before they update that they should make sure that custom configs are backed up? Provide a boot environment of the previous release and tell the user how to mount it to grab their customizations? We’re open to ideas.
In the meantime, yes your customizations will be overwritten. Backing them up or manually updating your own jail are good options to manage this for now.
Highly unlikely, unless someone criminally releases the code.
Stop stealing other’s work, create your own file system.
Command not found because jail-cli, needs to be done from freenas-cli outside the jail. Probably while jail stopped though I didn’t verify.
Command-line update failed for me while jail was named plex, because the json name didn’t match. Change to plexmediaserver-plexpass (or the name matching the json for the plugin that you have installed), and CLI update works. Probably UI update at that point too, though again I didn’t test.
More detailed writeup in forum
Please submit a feature request in the FreeNAS bug tracking system and provide your exact models of motherboard and NVDIMM module.
]]>Thanks for the support, Martin! Glad everything worked out.
Here are some resources you can utilize.
forums.freenas.org
The FreeNAS Consortium on Facebook
Hi Deefourteen,
It had some technical issues but it will return! Maybe even before the year is over!
Hi Tino,
We recommend emailing our Sales team and asking them your question. Sounds like our TrueNAS X-Series seems like a good fit for you.
Our Sales Team email: Sales@ixsystems.com
Sascha, we recommend filing a ticket for this. Please list as many details as possible. https://redmine.ixsystems.com/projects/freenas/issues
]]>You can’t span a ZFS pool across multiple systems. If you want to build a large ZFS system, add additional HBAs (host bus adapters) and bus expanders to your system.
]]>While true that some USB thumb drives are better than others, generally, they are all pretty bad.
Part of the problem is that there are many knockoff units (addressed in the article) but another factor involved in the author’s frustration is that many people choose to purchase the cheapest drive they can find when selecting the boot device for their storage.
Obviously, you didn’t fall into that trap, but it happens to other people all to frequently. The blog post is trying to inform people, so they can make better choices.
I totally agree with scott@sremick.net
]]>if you go on amazon and search for LSI 9201-16i the comments state that this card does very well with freenas and zfs
]]>Michael,
We understand your frustration but we would need more information before we suggest anything.
Recommend posting this question onto the forums before you do a fresh install. You might be able to get some valuable input from the FreeNAS Community.
No, we recommend SATA drives. WD Red, specifically.
]]>We recommend posting this on the FreeNAS forums. Input from other community members may help you.
]]>Please post this question on the FreeNAS forums!
]]>This seems like a good question for the FreeNAS forums!
forums.freenas.org
Thanks for reading!
Thank you for your support! Go redundancy!
Sean won you over!
]]>Yes, i realize i am posting to an old article, but i have to ask, Did you even read the article at all?
The article:
I have moved OpenZFS-formatted multi-terabyte USB drives from my FreeNAS system to a Raspberry Pi 3 running FreeBSD and run my backup routine without issue
Your post:
Worse even on small single-board computers, like those ARM devices that are so popular nowadays. (E.g. Raspberry PI.) Those would make very nice NAS solutions
Do let me know how my 16GB ram server has mounted 53TB of storage and still functions as a small app server.
According to your post, woudlnt this machine need at least 53gb of ram for ZFS?
Fantastic.
]]>Click on the “white paper” link up above or go here: https://static.ixsystems.co/uploads/2018/10/ZFS_Storage_Pool_Layout_White_Paper_WEB.pdf
]]>Thank you for the support.
]]>Corrected!
]]>This week!
]]>Yes, you really do need 2 SSDs.
]]>Yes, the fundamental best and worst practices have never changed.
]]>The source code is at github.com/freenas/freenas, versions are built from src from that point in time.
]]>Not at this time, but there are plans to add support in the future
]]>These apply to ZFS in general. They are not specific to a FreeNAS version, or even to FreeBSD. The same applies to ZFS on Illumos, Linux, and any other OSs with a ZFS implementation.
]]>Take a look at this discussion thread. You can list any specs you’re considering to build your FreeNAS system and the community will give you some feedback.
Start by looking through this thread and search “plex” in the search bar. It should get you started! Hope this helps. https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?forums/will-it-freenas-freenas-build-discussion.70/
Yes, please visit http://www.freenas.org for more information.
]]>Please check the FreeNAS forums. forums.freenas.org
]]>Please check the FreeNAS forums! forums.freenas.org
]]>Can i use this free nas software as a back up storage device so that usera can automatically back up their file?
]]>will work for LSI MegaRAID SAS9361-8I ?
]]>Was not, my dude
]]>Just wanted to pass on my personal experience. Performance bogged down so bad running Plex under FreeNas that I ended up putting up a VM on my Xenserver host to run Plex. Mounted the FreeNas storage for the media and then it worked fine. Again, just my personal experience
]]>In what context are you asking this question about? In general?
]]>Unfortunately, no
]]>You’re welcome!
]]>Glad to help out when we can!
]]>Glad we can help!
]]>ZFS is as important to the equation as the VM:
“ZFS is really not doing anything special beyond what it usually does – provide 100% confidence in data reliability” should be”
should be:
ZFS is really not doing anything special beyond what it usually does – provide 100% confidence in data reliability and SNAPSHOTS
They key being that crypto locker attacks work at the file systems level and not on the block level (which is how ZFS stores its snapshots)
Both FreeBSD and Linux ZFS implementations originate from and share majority code of OpenZFS which is part of illumos. Both develop they own features hidden behind feature flags but work on integrating them in reference illumos implementation.
]]>I’m no ZFS expert. But as I understand it any incompatibility has to do with available versions. FreeBSD tends to use a more recent version of ZFS which can have features that are incompatible with the Linux version.
That said as long as the the applications make the same calls to ZFS same the incompatibilities are not visible.
No they do not. It is an entirely different development branch, however, they try to remain comparable with freeBSD’s openzfs. To my knoledge, FreeNAS does not add anything to OpenZFS.
Im curious why ZOL (“ZFS on Linux”) was left out of this explanation when the purpose of the article is to differentiate between the different ‘common’ ZFS branches. ZFS on Linux is plenty popular to add to the discussion and is also fully supported on Ubuntu Linux (though it can be installed on any popular distribution such as CentOS, Debian, Arch).
In short, Ive used ZOL for a very long time and have only recently switched to FreeBSD (not FreeNAS) full time and I am noticing zero difference (my configuration is not that complex). They both just work.
I run pfblocker NG (Geo IP fensing), IPSec tunnel and Openvpn on my pfsense appliance to access my NAS remotely
]]>Nope, i have a DELL SRV with NONE dell HDD and no issues with red lights flashing 😉
]]>Thank you for your support! We believe in you, John!
]]>We agree. This is an important topic and we will discuss how to best address it.
]]>Christmas is here, guess the deal didn’t make it back?
]]>Check if you have setup to periodically scan the libraries rather than scan when changes to the files.
]]>a really really nice new gui!!!
greate work!
but one question 🙂
where can I find the overwiev of my drives?
BR
Bernd
Didn’t find any good deals on them which is why it wasn’t a part of our list!
]]>Please check out the forums regarding this as some users have done this.
]]>You can, but it is not recommended as you will be limited to the smallest disk size. See http://doc.freenas.org/11/storage.html#manual-setup
]]>Christmas is right around the corner!
]]>Thank you for your support! Please file any bugs you encounter!
]]>Go here and enter your information to sign up for the newletter: http://www.freenas.org/download/
For the documentation, here are the release notes: http://download.freenas.org/11/latest/ and https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-1-release/
Please tell me more about the limits of ZFS. As far as I’m aware, as long as you’re not using de-duplication, the memory requirements for ZFS are pretty tame: maybe 1 GB. It wouldn’t be able to cache much, but it doesn’t need to cache much on a desktop, no moreso than any OS needs to cache lots of disk I/O.
Async writes would simply mean the last second or two of writes didn’t get saved, which isn’t usually the end of the world. A sudden power loss will accomplish the same thing whether or not your application *believed* that it finished writing your videogame save just before the power went out. But I think you could run it with all sync writes if you really wanted to.
Bhyve is the main piece of our VMs. Jails are provided through IOcage in 11.1. Docker emulation of some type is supported but not recommended for intensive things like Plex transcoding due to poor performance.
]]>There are no plans to add this at this time.
]]>I know it can be done manually in the terminal.
]]>We understand your concern. However, automated QA has been extremely helpful with a myriad of issues. It’s even allowed us to fix issues before they became a problem.
]]>That was a great conference!
]]>Hi Anil,
Try clearing the browser cache, history, and then cookies.
Thank you for your support!
]]>Thanks for the support! The FreeNAS Forums is a good resource for beginners and experienced users of FreeNAS.
]]>Let us know if we can help!
]]>FreeNAS 11 is based on FreeBSD 11.0.
]]>Thanks for the support!
]]>Thanks for the support, Fernando!
]]>We suggest posting this question on the FreeNAS forums.
]]>We are still working on improving the GUI. Please bear with us for now. Improvements to the GUI are coming.
]]>Thanks for the support, Jeff!
]]>The SLOG is never read from unless there is a failure (power or crash). The purpose of a SLOG is to keep the IO transactions in non-volatile space until the transactions have been committed to the pool’s dataset. When the transactions are committed to disk they are read from the transaction group (TXG) stored in RAM. So, essentially, the SLOG is just a backup device in the event that the TXG is lost due to power failure or crash. Looking at the Disk IO in the reporting section of FreeNAS will illustrate that your SLOG device is only being written to.
Mirroring the SLOG would only prevent your SLOG vdev from being accessible if one of the SLOG devices fail. In the event that the SLOG completely fails (single drive or both in a mirror), the ZIL will be written out to the pool, rather than the no longer accessible SLOG device. You will not see any performance improvement from a mirrored SLOG under normal conditions.
A SLOG device can be striped though. This will increase performance. However, with each additional drive, you increase the chance of the SLOG failing over time. Your choices would be to add a stripe of mirrored SLOGs or to invest in a fast NVMe and replace SSDs. It depends on budget and drive bay availability.
Thank you Milton! Let us know if we can help!
]]>dell server?? now days don’t they blink red if you use a non DELL HDD?? and dell ones cost like X2-X3 more then an non DELL one.
]]>“Wouldn’t a mirror only improve a read from disk that never really happens?”
The cached data is written out to the pool in a certain intervale, meaning it needs to be read from the SLOG when it’s written out to the pool…
No, the CDDL and GPL really are incompatible and cannot be used together in a single work (ex: the Linux kernel). There is a pretty good discussion about it here,
https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2094/are-cddl-and-gpl-really-incompatible
However, you are also right that the Linux kernel developers are not too enthusiastic about merging it into the main tree to begin with. This has not so much to do with licensing as with the the monolithic nature of the filesystem. ZFS takes over huge swaths of the VFS layer and the md raid layer in addition to providing the block layer filesystem. It does some of its own memory management, and even provides its own ACL implementation and some network services like NFS and SMB. So yeah, it’s a monolith. Breaking all of these pieces up into smaller bits that use as much native code as possible is a big task that the ZoL group has been working hard at, but it is still pretty far away from being palatable to Linus and the other kernel developers.
That said, I’ve used ZoL extensively and it is quite easy and robust. While it would definitely be nice for it to be available in the mainline kernel, it is not such a huge barrier to overcome if you want to implement ZFS on a Linux system.
Hey Frank! We are often bringing important fixes and improvements into FreeNAS long before it hits a “release” of FreeBSD. I hope that answers your question.
]]>So far bhyve does not allow GPU passthrough. We are hoping that this will be a feature added soon, but this is dependent on bhyve.
]]>Great! Let us know if we can help.
]]>Thank you!
]]>Thanks for your question Eric. Setting Plex up to see mounted drives follows the same process as exposing any other dataset. Have you had a chance to review our documentation on mounting datasets? If you’re still having trouble please consider filing a bug on bugs.freenas.org so that we can look into the issue a little more closely.
]]>“… you all are one and the same.” I didn’t know and couldn’t imagined, TrueNAS and FreeNAS were from the same company, really.
I have implemented FreeNAS in many companies where data is not, believe me, “fungible” with excellent outcomes both in TCO as well as in perfomance and I’m sure I’m not the only one out there.
That wouldn’t break the upgrade but it would definitely impact performance. If upgrading from v10, refer to https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/faq-migrating-from-freenas-corral-to-freenas-9-10-11.36/
]]>Thank you for your support, Jon!
]]>If I have performed this update without problems
]]>Select the 11-STABLE train in http://doc.freenas.org/11/system.html#update
]]>Thank you for your support!
]]>After 11.1!
]]>Unfortunately, not happening…
]]>Thank you for your support!
]]>😀
]]>Thank you and ENJOY!
]]>Depends on the hardware and usage whether or not it will benefit from slog, best to make a forum post describing setup!
]]>Follow the instructions in https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/faq-migrating-from-freenas-corral-to-freenas-9-10-11.36/
]]>Select the 11-STABLE train in http://doc.freenas.org/11/system.html#update
]]>I have the same question as well
]]>Yes, just change the train.
]]>Thank you for your support!
]]>Have fun!
]]>Thank you for your support!
]]>Thank you, Darren!
]]>Thanks for the support!
]]>You’re welcome!
]]>Thank you for your support!
]]>Atom has been garbage since its release, IMO. It’s so doggy, even for a netbook–let alone a server! I say stick with real processors that were designed and purpose built for servers: Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron, nothing else. That’s just my 2 cents.
]]>This is something you should never attempt outside of just for fun. This will destroy your drive in under a week. Not to mention this is a non supported configuration.
]]>Yes!
]]>Many of our users have used the LSI 9211 card with great success!
]]>A lot of our users prefer the Western Digital RED NAS drives. Give them a try!
]]>Double check and make sure you aren’t missing any guest additions.
]]>This would be a better question for the forums. It would be really hard to respond to so much technical detail here. Give the forums a try!
]]>Sorry you’re having trouble! If you will open a ticket on our bug tracker we will be glad to help you get FreeNAS running on your system!
]]>All you have to do to get to the GUI is take the IP address you’re given after installation and put it into a web browser on any computer that is on the same network. Hope this helps!
]]>I’d highly recommend checking out our forums! There are a lot of people that may be able to pitch in and help answer your question.
]]>I suspect the virtualisation solutions of ESX and BSD jails to be plenty efficient for nesting, unless you’re talking about performance intensive tasks running in your jails. Either way, I’d suggest taking the path of least resistance initially. Optimise performance when you have performance problems, never before.
]]>I have actually installed Plex Server on other computers in my home and mapped the drives to the FreeNAS box. This works very well also. I was using this method before the Plex Plugin was available since I needed a workaround.
]]>Jabey-
I didnt mention it in the article and just now saw the blog but yes, we did drop a couple hundred bucks into the bin for FreeNAS and have since purchased an IXsystems rig. I didnt even think about the value of pointing out supporting OSS with donations. Rather, I was simply showing that the big box shops have nothing on FreeNAS’ performance and value. Great suggestions and yes, if you use OSS and love it, DONATE!
This guy knows little about raid! his opinion VS reality somewhat differ. GOOD comeback on his comment about hardware raid. thats a misconception. ever heard of bit-rot? i work in the field and have saw it and this is server with hardware raid! ZFS hopefully will prevent this
]]>I’ve found the CentOS docker to be a bit flaky – you could do a
docker pull ubuntu
docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash
Not sure that will get you to where you want to go – but I have decent docker experience and something is ‘not’ right with the CentOS:Latest currently.
Thanks for your comment, Collin. We’ve looked into things and updated that section to better explain how multiple SLOG devices can improve performance and guard against performance degradation.
]]>I think that’s exactly the kind of scenario in which you could lose the whole zpool. I think ZFS is quite sensitive to small amounts of corruption in metadata – you may be lucky and lose only a file or two, but it’s possible that the whole file system goes.
]]>In any case I could not loose the entire zpool, right ? I meant……
]]>Michael,
thanks for the reply. I see the point which can be critical for bank transactions which can loose crucial information during power loss if some data remains in the raid cache while the ZIL has not be committed to the pool.
In our case, we use freenas to store astrophysical scientific data which can be reproduce. Then the only risk I take, by using a raid controller with cache, in case of power loss and/or system panic, is to loose the latest data from the raid cache which have not been committed ? In any case I could lost the entire zpool, right ? (This is important to know)
Thanks in advance
Jean-Charles,
The problem with an on-card write cache is that it reports to the OS that the incoming data has been written to disk while in fact it has only been written to cache. While a battery backup unit (BBU) and even the on-disk super capacitors exist to “guarantee” that the data makes it to persistent storage in the case of a power loss or system panic, these “guarantees” have not proven adequately reliable. The proper solution with ZFS is to add a separate log device or SLOG. Note the recent freenas.org blog post on this topic and this is considered a standard practice for NFS.
I have the exact same problem, even though linux.ko is loaded and a manually installed linux jail is running correctly!
]]>With regards to failures, RaidZ1, 2 and 3 or RAID-10 equivalents of stripped mirrors are straight forward in how many drives can fail before the pool fails. A RaidZ1 pool can survive one drive failing etc. With regards to performance, there are many older FAQ posts and other mentions of “optimal” numbers of drives for any given RaidZ configuration and fortunately this is largely and obsolete concern. Matt Ahrens has provided a very thoughtful article on the matter: http://blog.delphix.com/matt/2014/06/06/zfs-stripe-width/
]]>Once configured, a USB boot module is effectively a live boot device with the option of either “factory defaults” or your own configuration. This has proven adequite for most demo needs.
]]>See: https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/5520 (Configuration issue)
]]>This represents a high-end system. Give it a go but do try to meet the minimum 8GB RAM requirement.
]]>The article represents a high-end configuration. The plugin functionality and Mini have not gone anywhere.
]]>Note that the FreeNAS operating system resides on a separate device from the storage pool and that the pool is portable between installations and even ZFS-compatible operating systems. So yes, your data should be safe and yes, you should be able to upgrade from FreeNAS 9.1.1 to later 9.* versions.
]]>Correct. Performance desegregation is the concern and ZFS does not handle resource exhaustion well. A 95%+ full pool will also grind performance to a halt.
]]>It would be the same with any other file system and this is a risk. Do consider using ECC RAM.
]]>The drivers are included but your mileage may vary.
]]>The article describes a pretty high-end system and many users use repurposed hardware. Do consider the FreeNAS Mini for something in between.
]]>The article describes a pretty high-end system. The FreeNAS Mini is a 10th the price and is available on Amazon.
]]>Note that the Administrative user changed from “admin” to “root”.
]]>Note that the Administrative user changed from “admin” to “root”.
]]>ZFS is quite memory-intensive compared to other file systems but as a trade off provides far more integrity safeguards than most file systems.
]]>That is adequate RAM for FreeNAS and the RAM usage by the jails will be determined entirely what software you run in them.
]]>Unfortunately, yes, and it takes a pretty advanced user to notice this. Kudos!
]]>Yes. Comments are moderated to keep SPAM down. Sorry about the delay.
]]>What chipsets are giving you trouble?
]]>The administrative user has changed from “admin” to “root”.
]]>You can direct the output to a serial port: Settings: Advanced: Serial Port…
]]>Give it a try.
]]>Look for “No thank you, send me to the Download page please.”
]]>Directamente en un equipo dedicado.
]]>We hear you!
]]>It is in pkg: pkg install docker-freebsd on FreeBSD HEAD
]]>Here and now, you will want to use FreeBSD HEAD for Docker.
]]>Do make sure the linux compatibility kernel module is loaded.
]]>Because the CryptoLocker attacks are constantly evolving and do not require administrative privileges, there is no guaranteed means of preventing such attacks but there are there is a proven remedy. This remedy extends beyond VM snapshots to file shares and given how many CryptoLocker-style attacks go after backups such as those on DropBox, this is still one of the best options available.
]]>FreeNAS 10 does not contain Docker support at this time. FreeBSD would be where you want to experiment with it.
]]>FreeNAS is still considered a bare-metal OS with virtualization only being suggested for testing and demonstrations. However, “Yes, You Can Virtualize FreeNAS” and your mileage may vary. Do feel free to share your findings on XenServer.
]]>Many people test FreeNAS under VMware and you should have no problems with this as long as you take the article’s advice into consideration.
]]>Feel free to contact sales@ixsystems.com and the Michael Lucas and Allan Jude webinar describes quite a few other benefits.
]]>You never want to use a RAID card with FreeNAS unless explicitly in JBOD mode. If referring to passing through a HBA, your VM host may support the individual passing of drives through but “virtual” disks are not recommended for production use. They are quite useful for testing and demonstrations.
]]>FreeNAS 9.2.1 had reasonable Hyper-V support but one is generally discouraged from virtualizing FreeNAS. What issues are you experiencing under Hyper-V?
]]>This is strictly a traditional NAS use but one could host a database in a plugin jail. Note that one of our October #MissionComplete best stories mentions how they are hosting their web site under FreeNAS.
]]>While hardware RAID isn’t evil, it bybasses many of the features found in ZFS that can help you avoid costly drive-recovery services. We’d like to response to your listed benefits as well:
1. I can blink failed drives light – cant do it on my nas zfs box
TrueNAS offers cabinet management out of the box and while there is not an official way with FreeNAS, one can use various HBA blink features just as you would with a RAID HBA (they’re related) and in a pinch do a ‘dd’ read from the drive.
2. I can pull out a drive live then push it back in, nothing bad happens. Its all automated.
Most non-home FreeNAS systems are hot-swappable. If you are talking about rebuilding, a ZFS system will only rebuild the actual data on disk, rather than the full disk in the case of a hardware RAID card. The hardware RAID card has no insights into what file system or data you have on the disk.
3. Battery backed up cache with auto sensing of low battery, will turn off cache if battery fails.
That is good if all RAID cards include the feature but we have seen such caches provide corrupt data that cannot be attributed to on-disk corruption. This probably rare, but we have seen it.
4. Speed – they are fast.
We have seen the same HBA perform around 5% slower with RAID firmware vs. HBA “target” firmware presumably because of the added RAID calculations. This may not apply to all cards but we have seen it in the field.
5. Auto email and also buzzer if a drive fails.
FreeNAS provides this via the GUI and e-mail. Various scripts exist to use a sound device but they are not incorporated into FreeNAS at this time. Any such buzzer would be card-specific.
6. Probably many more things I can’t think of.
We’d love to hear any more information you can provide.
7. Less reliable drives (SATA) vs SAS.
Most HBAs are compatible with both. Do use SAS drives if your budget permits it.
8. Probably many more things I can’t think of.
We’d love to hear any more information you can provide.
The drives don’t care. The manufacturers are concerned about two things if too many drives are used together, temperature and vibration. A good enclosure can mitigate temperature. Some can mitigate vibration. If you plan on using more than 8 drives, consider both.
]]>HAST isn’t HAST without CARP, so I think this is implied. It’s not really weird that there’s no mention; mentioning it would be redundant/unnecessary details.
To be HAST the failover needs to happen automatically and the only way to support is with CARP. (Maybe iSCSI is smart enough to have multiple IPs, but CIFS and NFS clients assume the server is an IP, so if the primary server goes down the secondary has to steal the IP… CARP’s the best way to do that).
One could install Virtualbox in a FreeNAS-Jail to run FreeBSD for Docker?
]]>FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD. I don’t see a reason why this would not be possible.
]]>The Docker post was actually in reference to FreeBSD, but posted on the FreeNAS web site. FreeNAS would be a possible file store in this scenario, not a host.
]]>Hi Nick,
How exactly did you configure Clover to boot FREENAS? I can’t seem to force Clover to see it, and the documentation for Clover is rather light.
TIA,
Seth
Short answer: They don’t!
]]>You can still use UFS as a filesystem on some external device, just not as your “main file store” because FreeNAS is trying to provide for *reliable* file storage, and UFS provides no redundancy or self-healing features. You can also, for that matter, format a single drive as a ZFS filesystem if you simply wish to copy files over as a last-ditch DR strategy – that’s easy to do from the UI even. Just create another pool on your external drive, replicate your data from a snapshot over to it, then detach it. Done! You don’t need UFS.
]]>Not sure what you mean by “caching” in your question. FreeNAS certainly supports ARC and L2ARC caches as well as a write cache (ZIL) device, and all of these are well-documented features of ZFS.
]]>I would advise you to upgrade the RAM and USB drive to 8GB before updating.
]]>Our FreeNAS Mini ships with WD Red drives, and it’s not something that we disable.
]]>The RAID setup happens using the volume manager after you perform the FreeNAS install.
]]>That’s the FreeNAS Mini.
]]>Whether upgrading, or performing a fresh install and importing the old configuration, the end result is the same: the filesystem will be ZFS root.
]]>The workaround wasn’t usable as my issue is picky BIOS. I have gone through all possible configurations and found no solution there.
However, with Clover Bootloader, it turned out to be a simple UEFI boot extension. Some users booting from USB may not like having a second USB boot device, but in simple fact, it works and works well. This should work for all systems that refuse to boot from the new GPT/ZFS boot format.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/
It seems odd that a motherboard that recent would insist on MBR booting, but ASUS has indeed been an inconsistent motherboard manufacturer when it comes to implementing — and sticking to — standards.
If you’re experiencing a mountroot problem, here is a workaround from the forum that might help: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/workaround-semi-fix-for-mountroot-issues-with-9-3.26071/
If that doesn’t work, I’d look to toggling BIOS settings related to USB booting, if available.
The “direct extraction” method of installing FreeNAS is no longer available since FreeNAS now takes advantage of the full capacity of the install media with ZFS. One of the reasons FreeNAS uses ZFS for the boot volume is to support “clones” of the boot volume itself as a failsafe in the case of a misconfiguration or bad upgrade. As a result, FreeNAS now requires scripts to be run at install time, which is not possible with the direct extraction method.
If you don’t have a CD drive available, the ISO image can now be directly copied to another USB drive (not the one for boot) and booted to provide the same installer experience as the CD installer. This is the recommended install method when a CD drive is not available.
Here is a link to the documentation regarding the install for 9.3:
http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_install.html
And, the release notes contain a clearer discussion of the boot and install features:
http://download.freenas.org/9.3/STABLE/201412301712/ReleaseNotes
I smell a new FAQ item coming…
If it worked with previous versions of FreeNAS, then it will also work with FreeNAS 9.3. Of course, I’d recommend using it in “JBOD” (pass-through) mode to take full advantage of ZFS by letting FreeNAS handle the RAID.
]]>8GB is recommended. Fundamentally, some ZFS features (like prefetch) will even be disabled with less than 6GB of RAM. In some cases you might be ok with 4GB, and in others 8GB could even be far too little. For example, if it’s a use case like “Bob” describes above with a single 1TB drive, you could be fine, but at the end of the day, we recommend 8GB because it’s the minimum that we test and can therefore stand behind. Using less than 8GB is an “at your own risk” adventure and not recommended or supported. We plan on releasing a blog regarding this topic soon. Stay tuned!
]]>Unofficially: I’d think you’d be ok in this scenario.
Officially: this isn’t something we have tested.
I have 10 GB RAM and lot’s of jails. How can I be sure that this amount of RAM is sufficient?
]]>and if I have only 4 GB ? it’s a problem?
]]>It is, indeed.
]]>Yes, the recommended minimum is 8GB RAM.
]]>You can change it to only check your disks every 12 or 24 hours. It’s checking for new files, updating the info on your current files, and seeing if you’ve moved or removed any files.
]]>All the SHA sums are on the FreeNAS download page, in the area below the main two downloads. http://www.freenas.org/download/
Click “Click here for Legacy and 32-bit Downloads”.
thanx oappi
]]>Actually it’s probably because Plex scans your media periodically looking for changes, and this is optional and adjustable. If you want it to be manual refresh you can set it this way, at least on the Linux version.
It’s also possible to change the time interval.
thats because Plex tracks the movies you have and your viewing habits. i dont even mess with Plex
]]>Merry Xmas Freenas team.
bit sad that infiniband support was not added yet again as personally i don’t care any of the features listed here. Rest might be interesting in the future, but was looking forward to infiniband support as it has been promised “for next release” so long.
@Taimat
if you have consumer router and you have not added holes to allow traffic from internet to freenas (from routers settings) then no-one should be able to gain access to your freenas outside unless your freenas contacts them first (for example to ask time from ntp). If you don’t want freenas to gain internet access at all, then block internet/outside traffic to your freenas from your router. In short if you don’t have good reason don’t turn your freenas into second router, let your router do its job. Naturally i assume you don’t have vpn server (or similar) in your trusted network.
Those are for my 8.X plugins. Below link are my 9.X plugins
http://forums.freenas.org/threads/freenas-9-plugins-sab-sb-cp-hp-maraschino-htpc-mylar-ll-gamez.16200/
Only the server is ported to FreeBSD/FreeNAS. It seems kinda useless to me to have the client side ported to FreeNAS because you probably want to view your media from other devices like SmartTV/Tablets/Phone/HTPC etc instead of from your server.
]]>We don’t hate, we appreciate!
Cheers!
Thanks Kevin, this was my first time trying Plex out, and I must admit I am feeling a little like Slowpoke right now, lol
]]>Nice! I was wondering what to do with my RPi, now I know what I’ll be doing in some uneventful weekend in the near to late future 😉
]]>Can you link me to documentation about this, I am unfamiliar with the term. Thanks!
]]>Here’s what I did:
If you’d like more details, check out this video: http://youtu.be/-WF0r36cxO0
]]>check the freenasforums for how to install ajaxplorer.
it has all what you need/require.
i need the minidlna plugin, but i cant find any plugin, where are they?
]]>FreeNAS 9.1 is using the open source “ZFS 5000” which is not compatible with ZFS on Solaris and almost certainly never will be. Open-source ZFS forked at ZFS 28, the last version from OpenSolaris, which is of course not compatible with later Oracle ZFS versions. ZFS 5000 represents the introduction of Feature Flags, which allow the implementation of ZFS features without a monolithic version which must be adhered to. FreeNAS ZFS has LZ4 compression for example, which may or may not be supported by other “ZFS 5000” implementations.
]]>It seems that the new plugin jail supports PBI’s from PCBSD http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Using_Jails_to_Install_Additional_Software
You can try install the VirtualBox PBI from PCBSD.
ESXi 5.x eliminates the 2TB disk limits. Running free version ESXi 5.0 with a RAID 5 array of 8 2TB drives on one server and two RAID 5 arrarys of 4 2TB drives on another.
]]>I’m looking for a SATA-Controller to passthrough my HD’s. Which one do you use?
]]>You may also consider OpenMediaVault since it runs under Debian and provides a pretty solid alternative to FreeNAS. The guy with the ESXi server had a good suggestion too.
]]>will the presentation notes from the seminar be available online after EuroBSDCon?
Thanks.
]]>Michael
]]>Does this include TimeMachine compatibility as well or only general AFP share access ?
Adi
]]>I hit the wall by attaching a 2TB ext2fs drive. I didn’t know that here’s a bug in the ext2fs support for drives > 1TB. Maybe FreeNAS should refuse mounting the >1TB filesystem to save the others from being shocked when half of the data are not accesible? Or at least display some scary warning until the bug is fixed? Nevertheless, in the end I reformatted the drive to UFS anyway to gain the fsck on-the-fly which is important especially for such big partitions.
The only think I’m missing is control of the case fans plugged to the motherboard. I can set up their speeds in BIOS but it’d be much more comfortable to be able do it in the Web UI. Or even having them configured to change their speed depending on the state of temperature sensors.
I still find the FreeNAS 7 line the optimal OS to run a home NAS. Thank you very much and keep up the good work!
— Ferda
]]>I hit the wall by attaching a 2TB ext2fs drive. I didn’t know that here’s a bug in the ext2fs support for drives > 1TB. Maybe FreeNAS should refuse mounting the >1TB filesystem to save the others from being shocked when half of the data are not accesible? Or at least display some scary warning until the bug is fixed? Nevertheless, in the end I reformatted the drive to UFS anyway to gain the fsck on-the-fly which is important especially for such big partitions.
The only think I’m missing is control of the case fans plugged to the motherboard. I can set up their speeds in BIOS but it’d be much more comfortable to be able do it in the Web UI. Or even having them configured to change their speed depending on the state of temperature sensors.
I still find the FreeNAS 7 line the optimal OS to run a home NAS. Thank you very much and keep up the good work!
— Ferda
]]>Just for the record, we found this independently and I have fixed it for both FreeBSD and NetBSD (FreeBSD r213044). It would be great if we see some more vocal voice saying “Hey you broke X”, which really helps us to fix bugs earlier.
]]>Through the GUI, apparently, you don’t get write access to ZRAID volums as default (WHY? I don’t know, but it’s a retarded design point or a bug….). Now way to do this though the GUI at this level of alpha code either (the GUI doesn’t really work in IE8 either, but Firefox is just an install away…)
But to get back to the fix…
Install PuTTY, SSH into the box (after turning on ssh in the Services menu), then chmod 777 /mnt/Big, went and deleted all the shares, and recreated them, and made sure the check the ‘inherit permissions’ checkbox, and BINGO, all is well, and running along.
Too bad it took this kind of effort for a newbie to get something like this working for what SHOULD be a turnkey operation.
]]>Just installed 5778, and configed with 4 drives in a raidz as (/mnt/big), then defined a dataset of ‘pix’ as /mnt/big/pix, then shared the /mnt/big/pix through cifs as ‘Pictures’.
I can see it, I can map to it, but I can’t write it (and since I haven’t been able to write, I don’t know if I can read…..
]]>I’m so glad I violated the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” rule and upgraded.
]]>is it possible provide supporting to DLNA protocol? It would be great and useful!
Regards,
Andrea
]]>Cheers and keep the good work up!
Jonas
]]>I’d recommend to create some kind of fullscreen window to first terminal with additional system information. IIRC then stable version of FreeNAS did that already.
Samba with FreeBSD ACL support would be great addition for enhanced access management.
Recycle Bin is great- I use it for years already and it helped me out couple of times.
I hope I can help you guys resolve bugs like I did in PC-BSD 😉
]]>I’ve created IMG, VDI, and VMDK files for testing. Enjoy!
IMG (disk image): http://tigris.thruhere.net/dl/freenas_r5277_img.tar.bz2
VDI (VirtualBox): http://tigris.thruhere.net/dl/freenas_r5277_vdi.tar.bz2
VMDK (VMware/VirtualBox): http://tigris.thruhere.net/dl/freenas_r5277_vmdk.tar.bz2
Will the new version of FreeNAS/FreeBSD 8.1 support Realtek RTL8111C on board gigabit NICs?
I’m using this board for my FreeNAS:
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_9832
But… I can’t turn on jumbo frames due to a driver limitation. Jumbo frames works on Linux and Windows so I know it’s not a hardware limitation. I can’t find a definitive answer on RTL8111C and FreeBSD8.1.
]]>Thanks,
Fred
Thanks, Gary
]]>J’ai cree un systeme de sauvegarde et je voudrai payer des royalties pour l’utilisation commerciale.
comment se rencontre-t-on ?
I have using FreeNAS (ZFS file system) storage unfortunately it was power off. some data lost after the boot. if any possible recover my data.
]]>http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_why
http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
The website corenas.org is not related to anyone on the FreeNAS or OpenMediaVault team (the owner of corenas.org had registered the domain name some days before Volker did it).
“Why not use the work PFSense has done in forking the monowall gui?”
It’s an interesting idea (I’m testing it), but I will let ixSystems to decide.
]]>Before, it was only the sourceforge website that was live
]]>J’aimerais vous contacter pour discuter d’un autre projet base sur FreeNAS.
]]>I’ve mentioned this on my blog, http://www.datastorageserver.net: http://www.datastorageserver.net/2009/06/23/sourceforge-announces-finalists-of-4th-annual-community-choice/
Hopefully FreeNAS reaches the final.
]]>http://frugaltech.blogspot.com/2009/03/setup-samba-shares-with-freenas-5.html
Thanks!
]]>I’m Guillaume from LinuxCD.org.
I inform you FreeNAS is available in our webstore here : http://www.linuxcd.org/view_distro.php?id_distro=316
I hope you can add a link to your site to announce this information – If you have a donation link, we can put it on our website too.
We have added FreeNAS here too : http://www.mirrorlinux.com/mirrors.php?id_distro=316
Best regards,
Guillaume
LinuxCD.org
MirrorLinux.com
I’m having difficulties with 0.69b in combination with a nVidia on-board LAN. Keeps shouting watchdog timeouts and Tx descriptor errors. Anyone?
]]>I’m abd a lot more are waiting to see ZFS on FreeNAS!!!
Tank you!!!
]]>Alani Kuye
Phantm Data Systems Inc.
I don’t have much in the way of systems programming experience, but I am a competent Spanish/English translator. I would love to donate some time to help update the Spanish portion of your website/wiki. Whom do I contact?
]]>http://tec-updates.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-low-cost-nas-with-1-tb-storage.html
]]>My apology I have to restate statistics using the FreeNAS Graph screen. after adjustments
A. Dedicated Server
FreeNAS 0.684b. Monitoring Network using FreeNAS WebGUI Graph option. 100Mbps. Disabled kernel tuning GUI option and manually adjust.
B. Client test (no special tuning) using large files 100MB-300MB
1. FC7-Test GNOME. Nautilus Drag and drop. Samba around 2. FC7-Test console FTP. 97-99Mbp
3. Windows 2000-SP4 mapped drive. explorer drag and drop 52+Mbps. XCOPY 52+Mbps (Samba)
4. Linux console SMBCLIENT 80+Mbps. console stat states 9000+ Kb/s (Samba)
I will try further to see if I can improve without client tuning on Windows environments. However, I have no idea why the GNOME Nautilus desktop drag and drop stat is rather low.
ST
]]>My apology I have to restate statistics using the FreeNAS Graph screen. after adjustments
A. Dedicated Server
FreeNAS 0.684b. Monitoring Network using FreeNAS WebGUI Graph option. 100Mbps. Disabled kernel tuning GUI option and manually adjust.
B. Client test (no special tuning) using large files 100MB-300MB
1. FC7-Test GNOME. Nautilus Drag and drop. Samba around 2. FC7-Test console FTP. 97-99Mbp
3. Windows 2000-SP4 mapped drive. explorer drag and drop 52+Mbps. XCOPY 52+Mbps (Samba)
4. Linux console SMBCLIENT 80+Mbps. console stat states 9000+ Kb/s (Samba)
I will try further to see if I can improve without client tuning on Windows environments. However, I have no idea why the GNOME Nautilus desktop drag and drop stat is rather low.
ST
]]>You can check on the code (system.inc):
, look for this function:
function system_tuning()
And here is an example of use:
/sbin/sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536
You can check on the code (system.inc):
, look for this function:
function system_tuning()
And here is an example of use:
/sbin/sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536
This is related to tuning and improvement to Samba under FreeNAS.
I have a working 2 disks FreeNAS 0.684b setup.
Under FreeNAS default setting, 100Mbit Ethernet. WinXP-SP2 client. FTP transfer is up to 99% line speed. SMB transfer is 60-70% line speed
I enabled WebGui Kernel tuning option and have manually adjusted/added FreeNAS SMB parameters to reach up to 70-89% of 100Mbit link.
I am unable to go further because I think I need to adjust individual kernel parameters to go further. . I could not find the file FreeNAS uses to change kernel tuning parameters. Is it possible to let me know where and how I can modify the kernel parameters individually inside the console during runtime so that I can test the changes. Thanks.
]]>/mnt> ls -alh
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 3 root wheel 512B Mar 27 14:37 .
drwx–x–x 18 root wheel 512B Mar 27 14:19 ..
drwxrwxrwx 5 root wheel 512B Mar 27 17:03 Data
/var> ls -alh
total 10
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512B Mar 27 16:56 etc
…
If i change /mnt/Data to 755, i’m not able to delete the swap_file anymore.
The bad thing that i’m not able to do anything anymore 🙁
]]>Is anything of a plugin interface started? I might play with that a bit, if not. I’ve started trying to get jetdirect printing working (via p910nd). I’ve not yet had sucess, but I’ve got some ideas remaining.
]]>I’ve found the same problem under NetBSD here:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2004/07/08/0008.html
I’ve send an email to the author of this new gzip tools about this problem.
]]>Here is what I did:
I believe that the problem came from ‘dd’ tools, then I try to use the 0.683b CDROM (that use an old ‘dd’ tools)
for installing my image (previously copied from the 0.684b on the ad1s1 drive).
And from a SSH access to this ‘boot from 0.683b CDROM’
# mkdir /mnt/toto
# mount /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/toto/
# cd /mnt/toto/
# /usr/bin/gunzip -S “” -c FreeNAS-generic-pc.gz | dd of=/dev/ad0 bs=512
45056+0 records in
45056+0 records out
23068672 bytes transferred in 35.672522 secs (646679 bytes/sec)
=> No more error message “Invalid argument”… It’s seem good
Then I check the newly installed drive:
# mkdir /mnt/test
# mount /dev/ad0a /mnt/test/
# ls -alh /mnt/test/
total 15293
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512B Mar 18 16:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512B Mar 19 10:30 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 root operator 512B Mar 18 16:11 .snap
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512B Mar 18 16:11 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512B Mar 18 16:11 conf
-rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 15M Mar 18 16:11 mfsroot.gz
=> no error message “bad descriptor” here… It’s seem very good
then I’ve try to check for difference between the 0.683b and the working 0.684b release:
On the 0.683b:
# sysctl kern.version
kern.version: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Jan 13 20:03:15 CET 2007
root@vm.freenas.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/FREENAS
# ls -al /bin/dd
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18768 Jan 13 18:08 /bin/dd
# ls -al /usr/bin/gunzip
-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 46716 Jan 13 18:08 /usr/bin/gunzip
And on the 0.684b:
# sysctl kern.version
kern.version: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #6: Sun Mar 18 13:27:38 UTC 2007
root@dev.freenas.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREENAS
# ls -al /bin/dd
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18768 Mar 18 11:44 /bin/dd
# ls -al /usr/bin/gunzip
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Mar 18 13:04 /usr/bin/gunzip -> /usr/bin/gzip
# ls -al /usr/bin/gzip
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 26748 Mar 18 11:49 /usr/bin/gzip
Ho ho…. gunzip where replaced by gzip!
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