8.0.3 RELEASE coming soon

[joeschmuck]

BTW. I posted an official set of 8.0.3-RC3 images up on SF. This should be the last RC.

You made a joke "This should be", Ha Ha. I think this version is ready as-is to be called "Release" and is the best version to date, well with the exception of the trunk builds but those may not be very stable but I like some of the added features.

Question/Comment: Request that when you build the release version that it include the multimedia built in and the users who want it can adjust the files needed to configure and enable, vice having a separate version and call it an unsupported addition. The release notes could address the configuration changes required if you like.

Have a Happy New Year !

 

[gcooper]

You made a joke "This should be", Ha Ha. I think this version is ready as-is to be called "Release" and is the best version to date, well with the exception of the trunk builds but those may not be very stable but I like some of the added features.

Lol. I'm just particular about the NTFS+FUSE thing. I'll leave it up for a couple days and if all is quiet, I'll copy it over to 8.0.3-RELEASE. Have a few other things to look at with FreeNAS after this for the 8.2 RELEASE.

Question/Comment: Request that when you build the release version that it include the multimedia built in and the users who want it can adjust the files needed to configure and enable, vice having a separate version and call it an unsupported addition. The release notes could address the configuration changes required if you like.

I'm going to create another branch, copy over the changes, and brand the image appropriately :).

Have a Happy New Year !

You too :)!

 

[ProtoSD]

Hate to break it to you, but fuse is known to be slow and sometimes buggy (but to be honest, I've run into some nasty panic situations in the past with the FreeBSD NTFS kernel module doing simple things). I'll have to take a look and see whether or not a newer version fixes anything on trunk, but at this point I'm fine with saying it works but there are performance issues, etc and recommend that NTFS volumes only be used for copying off files because it isn't core functionality (that's kind of the purpose behind EXT*, FAT, NTFS support in FreeNAS IMO).

Thanks for the info BTW :).

I agree about NTFS and other filesystem support only being used only to migrate data to your NAS.


Gcooper, did you see the post in the bug reporting thread about the GUI loader/sysctl settings not taking effect?

Thanks for all the effort in this release (and everything else), it seems like it's going to fix a lot of stuff.

Happy New Year also :)

 

[gcooper]

I agree about NTFS and other filesystem support only being used only to migrate data to your NAS.

Gcooper, did you see the post in the bug reporting thread about the GUI loader/sysctl settings not taking effect?

Ack. I didn't. I'll take a look at that.

Thanks for all the effort in this release (and everything else), it seems like it's going to fix a lot of stuff.

Happy New Year also :)

Thanks! You too.

 

[dmt0]

Ok -- the caveat being then that we don't really support or encourage running i386. I'll depend on you and a handful of other folks to be my dedicated i386 testers :).

I'm also going to cap vfs.zfs.arc_max to 256MB on i386 and 1024MB on amd64 (untuned of course), unless anyone has any objections to me doing that.

Bottom line is that for home users this needs to be a robust solution. For people that want to pimp their NASes they can go about tuning their boxes to make them go faster :).

So what's the word on KVA_PAGES=512?
Is it set to that as of RC3? I would definitely love to see that. Sign me up as the dedicated tester :)

BTW Happy New Year to all!

 

[gcooper]

So what's the word on KVA_PAGES=512?
Is it set to that as of RC3? I would definitely love to see that. Sign me up as the dedicated tester :)

It got set to 512 in BETA2.

BTW Happy New Year to all!

You too!

 

[gcooper]

8.0.3-RELEASE and the equivalent multimedia build are being done as I type. The images should be up on SourceForge sometime before 6am PST. I'll update the release notes for the images containing the checksums after I wake up, but feel free to download the .sha256.txt file and install the upgrade if you want to give the release a shot.

Cheers!

 

[joeschmuck]

8.0.3-RELEASE and the equivalent multimedia build are being done as I type. The images should be up on SourceForge sometime before 6am PST. I'll update the release notes for the images containing the checksums after I wake up, but feel free to download the .sha256.txt file and install the upgrade if you want to give the release a shot.

Cheers!

Thanks, I'll grab a copy later on and test in my VM, then on my real machine tonight and report back.

 

[Ismael Duarte]

What is the Multimedia Version? Where can I find some info about?
Thank you for 8.03 release.

 

[joeschmuck]

What is the Multimedia Version? Where can I find some info about?
Thank you for 8.03 release.

The Multimedia version should include MiniDLNA a simple DLNA server which works very well but doesn't have transcoding. It also includes a bit-torrent program Transmission. You will be able to locate this version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.0.3-multimedia/

I haven't tested this version out myself but I suspect they are the same as the one's I build myself so there will be some manual configuration required. On the previous builds this posting will allow you to configure MiniDLNA http://forums.freenas.org/showthrea...-post-09-25-2011&p=11554&viewfull=1#post11554

 

[maarten]

Multimedia version

Will 8.03 multimedia version also come as a x64 version? Or am I just too impatient?

Maarten

 

[Accurus]

Will 8.03 multimedia version also come as a x64 version? Or am I just too impatient?

Maarten

+1 :) I went to go download it this morning and was sad to find that there was no x64 version.

 

[Daisuke]

No files available for download...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.0.3-multimedia/

Looks like 8.0.3 final has been released to users:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.0.3/

The question is: can I upgrade from 8.0.2 to 8.0.3 Multimedia x64 (if available)?

 

[gcooper]

There was an issue with the build this morning on amd64 and I nuked the entire set because the images need to be build from a consistent revision/base (I'm aiming for reproducibility).

I'm also taking the opportunity to produce images that will work sans the hacks that need to be employed in the various guides sprinkled around the forums, so all that users need to do is plugin the paths to volumes/datasets in the needed guides, maybe service names, and go with minimal effort.

I'll document official directions on how to do this with a forum post so that everyone understands with clear directions on how to set everything up before 8.2.0 is released in the next one to two months or so.

 

[Accurus]

Sounds great gcooper!

 

[Daisuke]

There was an issue with the build this morning on amd64 and I nuked the entire set because the images need to be build from a consistent revision/base (I'm aiming for reproducibility).

I'm also taking the opportunity to produce images that will work sans the hacks that need to be employed in the various guides sprinkled around the forums, so all that users need to do is plugin the paths to volumes/datasets in the needed guides, maybe service names, and go with minimal effort.

I'll document official directions on how to do this with a forum post so that everyone understands with clear directions on how to set everything up before 8.2.0 is released in the next one to two months or so.

Garrett, I will try Joe's build for now. When do you plan to get the official Multimedia release out?

 

[Raymond Matos]

Seems like DDNS is broken in 8.0.3 release vs 8.0.3 RC3. Using zoneedit, it tries to connect to dyndns.com.

Here is the dmesg log

http://pastebin.com/LAiUcFW1

 

[gcooper]

Garrett, I will try Joe's build for now. When do you plan to get the official Multimedia release out?

Early tomorrow morning PST.

 

[gcooper]

Seems like DDNS is broken in 8.0.3 release vs 8.0.3 RC3. Using zoneedit, it tries to connect to dyndns.com.

Here is the dmesg log

http://pastebin.com/LAiUcFW1

I'm really confused because I didn't change anything between 8.0.3-RC3 and -RELEASE in this area, and the build system is now completely sanitized from the host system (minus some whackiness that was being done via multimedia/xvid that I had to fix for the multimedia images, but that was a different story), and the build machine used both times (build.ixsystems.com) has remained the same minus an OS upgrade.

Someone else pointed out that there was a potential issue with the i386 binary (are you running x86 or x64?), but are you sure that your login details are ok (the error message above hints in the log blurb hints that it's unable to authenticate..), and can you login and verify that everything works with the free dynamic DNS provider? Also, did you reboot the box between when you last configured it and now? Please check /usr/local/etc/inadyn.conf to ensure that the details are sane.

I'd like to know your config details minus your username/password please :).

 

[gcooper]

I'm really confused because I didn't change anything between 8.0.3-RC3 and -RELEASE in this area, and the build system is now completely sanitized from the host system (minus some whackiness that was being done via multimedia/xvid that I had to fix for the multimedia images, but that was a different story), and the build machine used both times (build.ixsystems.com) has remained the same minus an OS upgrade.

Someone else pointed out that there was a potential issue with the i386 binary (are you running x86 or x64?), but are you sure that your login details are ok (the error message above hints in the log blurb hints that it's unable to authenticate..), and can you login and verify that everything works with the free dynamic DNS provider? Also, did you reboot the box between when you last configured it and now? Please check /usr/local/etc/inadyn.conf to ensure that the details are sane.

I'd like to know your config details minus your username/password please :).

Wait. I think I just overlooked a key piece of information: is your dynamic DNS provider zonedit and it's trying to access dyndns.com instead?