Category: FreeNAS

The former name of TrueNAS CORE, FreeNAS was the original iXsystems solution for cost-effective ZFS storage.

FreeNAS 0.685b released

After a long time and hard work we’ve released a new beta version of FreeNAS. It includes many new features and hopefully less bugs than the previous version. You can have a look on the changes here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=151951&release_id=523100

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Convertion to sysvinit nearly completed

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 […]

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IPv6

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 […]

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BarCamp at Nantes (FR)

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!

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New experimental installation mode

  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 […]

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Samba/CIFS performance initiative

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 […]

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Last day in Ottawa for BSDCan 2007

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 […]

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Preparing BSDCan2007

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 […]

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