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Hi all, There is a BarCamp at Nantes (in France) friday (the 8th june), and I will be present. If you want to speak about managing an open source project (in french), you’re welcome!

Currently i’m thinking about how to replace the current services php init code by using FreeBSD’s init system. This will make it easier to start/stop/restart services the Unix way.

  I’ve just added a new method for installing FreeNAS: It’s a real ‘install’ method that no more use the RAM drive.   For preparing these change, I’ve begin to rename the platform name:   Here are the new platform names:   FreeNAS-i386-liveCD: For the CD-ROM release (using a RAM drive)  FreeNAS-i386-embedded: For the classical […]

After recoding most the FreeNAS build scripts now we are able to add original FreeBSD patches into our ports. Due this i’ve added the Samba patches in the hope of increasing its performance. My current results are between 8.5 and 9.1 MB/s on a 100MBit network connection. Maybe my switch is a bottleneck, so i […]

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.