FreeNAS

The FreeNAS Team is pleased to announce the release of information pertaining to the secret history of the FreeNAS Project and the FreeNAS Mini at FreeNAS.org/mini. We now welcome the community to submit plans and designs for their own "FreeNAS ... [More] Mini" devices to [email protected]. We hope that this will lead to a new era of truth and understanding in the FreeNAS Community. [Less]

FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA1 can be downloaded from the following location: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/BETA1/ FreeNAS 8.2.0 brought with it the ability to install plugins, this functionality is present in FreeNAS 8.3.0 ... [More] as well. At the moment upgrading the plugin jail to the version included with FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA1 will cause plugins to stop working and will require reinstallation and reconfiguration of all plugins to resume normal operation. Our recommendation at this time is to avoid upgrading working components of the plugin system. ZFS Version 28 includes several features such as the ability to detach a dedicated ZIL device, triple parity RAIDZ, and deduplication. There are numerous caveats to using deduplication, please do some research into the possible caveats of using dedup before enabling it. Upgrading an existing ZFS pool is a one way street, once the upgrade is done it is not possible to use older versions of FreeNAS, nor is it possible to downgrade your pool. This upgrade can be done by running zpool upgrade from the CLI, it is not done automatically via the upgrader, nor is there a way to do the upgrade from the GUI. [Less]