It was my first BSD conference, and it was very interesting. This conference permit to meet lot’s of people from the *BSD world: – Pawel Jakub Dawidek (The GEOM guru) presented his actual work for porting ZFS under FreeBSD 7.0 and it was an incredible demonstration!!! (I never see ZFS in action before). Pawel confirm […]

There is a long time that I didn’t post here…. Hopefully Volker is very active on the FreeNAS code and on this blog 🙂       I’m preparing my travel to Ottawa for BSDCan2007. I will try to put some photos and day-to-day comments about this event and conferences.   I will present this […]

Today i’ve added a loader bootmenu. I think this is a nice feature for error diagnostics. It is also possible to disable ACPI with a finger tip, do some advanced diagnostics on the loader prompt, enabling debugging, …

Currently i’m doing much code reviews which hopefully results in better and stable code. Through this reviews i’ve found a lot of errors which have been fixed immediately. Also i want to concentrate my development for the next time to improve the FreeNAS PHP engine (the scripts behind the WebGUI :-)), there is much to […]

Yesterday i’ve upgraded the NTFS support, now we are using fusefs-ntfs v1.417 and fusefs-libs v2.6.3. There is only one problem in the WebGUI that we will hopefully fix soon.

Yesterday i’ve added a nice bootsplash to make the booting process a little bit nicer 🙂 I’ve choosen a low resolution (640×480) to make sure it will be displayed on nearly every display and to keep the mem cosumption as low as possible. Also Olivier and i thinking about how to integrate plugins and additional […]

  I’ve found two little bugs just before release it, but it’s not very important bug:   When pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del, the rc.shutdown script doesn’t work (http://pastebin.ca/417482)  The French accent are not correctly displayed: I’ve have the character ‘e in the place of è and ^o in the place of ô.        I’ve added […]

Dan just found a bug on the ‘rev 688’ of FreeNAS: Here are some command enter by a simple user (not root, not in the wheel group): > mount /dev/md0 on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/raid5/BigDiskp1 on /mnt/big_share (ufs, local, soft-updates, acls) /dev/ad0s1 on /cf (ufs, local, read-only) > ls -alh […]

I’ve found the problem with openssh-portable : It seem that openssh-portable haven’t the same default value as the FreeBSD sshd implementation. It needs the line “PasswordAuthentication yes” on the sshd_config file. And I’ve added some messages about umouting drive that are used by swap file or iSCSI target and other little fix and prevent to […]

Yesterday I did a big mistake: I’ve upgrade my NAS server with a non-tested release of FreeNAS. And this release had a big bug that prevent me to start it again 🙁 The process for recovery my system is quite simple: 1. Boot from a working FreeNAS CDROM 2. Mount the partition where is installed […]