Category: FreeNAS

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 […]

I have added a new feature to use a USB stick to save the configuration when booting FreeNAS from CD. Alternatively a floppy disk can be used also.

I’ve disabled the openssh-portable package again because of ssh login failures. The original sshd shipped with FreeBSD6.2 is used instead, but this one has no HPN patch.