Right at the moment we had some problems with systems running >= 2GB RAM. It is not possible to boot FreeNAS on this systems. To solve the problem the current workaround is to reduce RAM to 1GB. I will keep an eye on this problem. ZFS integration has been done in 0.7, so it is […]

Vault Networks choose to sponsorize the FreeNAS community by offering a big hosted server. I’m installing VMware server on it

The migration to FreeBSD 7.0 was more easy that planned. I’ve still one problem to solve with the circular log rotating patch, but it’s works… Now I’m working on migrating the internal configuration of disk/geom volume: I will use the idea of Volker for storing real disk and geom drive. Here is the actual state: […]

I’m back 🙂 And start to works on FreeNAS 0.7 release that wil include bigs changes: 1. Migrate to FreeBSD 7.0 (yes… with ZFS) 2. Full review of the Web Interface, especialy rewrite the disk management/mount point process for pemetting real share configuration (with pemission and quotas support).

FreeNAS is mentioned in on of the biggest german computer magazines. Have a look here.

Have a look here.

Today i found a video workshop in a german PC magazin. Have a look here: Video 1 Video 2

The boot code currently used in FreeNAS has been nearly completely converted into shell scripts. This has been done to use the FreeBSD sysvinit system and to make FreeNAS working more like FreeBSD. This enables us to provide the ability to use the FreeBSD package system without any big code changes. Because of the FreeNAS […]

Internet IPv6 migration seem very slow (in US and Europe), then here is my little contribution to this big task: By continuing to improve the upgrade process of the new ‘full’ release, I’ve start on adding IPv6. The actuall FreeBSD kernel used in FreeNAS support allready IPv6, the only change is to permit to configure […]