FreeNAS 9.1.1-RELEASE
The FreeNAS development team is delighted to announce the general release of FreeNAS 9.1.1. This release offers small, but significant, improvements to FreeNAS 9.1.0! A number of cosmetic issues, UI tracebacks and outright bugs (such as 32 bit plugins not working) have been addressed since 9.1 was released. A few features that were known to be broken, […]
FreeNAS 9.1.0 RC2 available
FreeNAS 9.1.0 RC2 is available on the download page. RC2 is still pre-production software, please use with caution. Plugins available in a properly configured repo may now be installed in one step, which will configure and install a plugin jail if that has not yet been done. Administrators may choose alternate repos. The image size […]
FreeNAS 9.1.0 RC1 Available
Alfred has announced that FreeNAS-9.1.0 Release Candidate 1 is available for download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-9.1.0/ Release Notes for FreeNAS 9.1.0-RC1 This is the first release candidate for FreeNAS 9.1.0. We have passed a great alpha and rolling beta cycle with many bug fixes and regressions fixed. At this point, only bug fixes and regressions will be […]
FreeNAS 9.1.0 BETA images available
The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 9.1.0-BETA images. Images can be downloaded from www.freenas.org/downloads. The plugin jail is now included in the install image and does not need to be downloaded separately. Plugins should be available soon. FreeNAS 9.1.0-BETA has many major improvements: 1) Version 9.1.0-STABLE of FreeBSD […]
TrueNAS is Verified as Citrix Ready
The TrueNAS Unified Storage Appliance is Trusted to Enhance Citrix Virtualization Solutions iXsystems® is proud to announce that the TrueNAS™ Unified Storage Appliance has been verified as Citrix Ready®. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third party...
Which FreeNAS?
Lessons from a year in the trenches with BSD’s killer app. I will confess that the TCP/IP stack is truly BSD’s killer app, giving us the Internet as we know it but that’s pretty old news and it’s no longer the de facto standard. Other contenders for this status are OpenBSD’s OpenSSH and Packet […]
What’s New in FreeNAS 8.x
This article highlights some of the new features which have been added to FreeNAS 8.x since July, 2012. These include the Plugins Jail, ZFSv28, and GELI encryption. Since its initial release in May, 2011, the newly designed FreeNAS 8.x series has added many features that make this open source storage operating system an attractive option […]
The Interview with Alfred Perlstein, VP of Software Engineering at iXsystems
Alfred has been working on the FreeBSD kernel for the past 13 years. His areas of interest have been file systems, multi-processor support, performance, and stability of FreeBSD. He has alternated between CTO/VP roles at companies like OkCupid to kernel developer positions at Apple and Juniper Networks. His current role is FreeNAS project manager […]
Handmade NAS
What you will learn… FreeBSD setup with ZFS as root filesystem Basic file sharing with smb, afp and ftp server Use these as building blocks for a full fledge NAS What you should know… FreeBSD installation Network configuration Port installation & configuration Introduction In the past, the term NAS (Network Attached Storage) was used […]
From Reading to Real Life
When I’ve heard that the next issue of BSD Magazine will be dedicated to FreeNAS, the idea came to my mind. I thought that we need a demo! NetOpenServices (www.netopenservices.com) gave me the opportunity to do it. Opportunity not only in terms of hosting but also in terms of security. I’m aware that giving out […]