8.2.0 progress report

[ProtoSD]

Will Nginx be implemented in 8.2? Looking forward to the release.

Hi Floren, it's been implemented in 8.2. Grab the Beta and take a look.

 

[William Grzybowski]

I think what he meant is using nginx to serve up files, not the use for the freenas interface

The release of 8.2 will bring at most 5 plugins IMHO (currently 3 I think, I don't know if there will be time to do more)...
We hope people will start making their own plugins but we have to give some time so things stabilize, I'm sure there is still a lot to improve/fix, but thats a good start...

 

[Daisuke]

Thanks Will. I was interested in both Nginx scenarios, glad the first step is done.
Will sabnzbd make it as official plugin? I hope so. :)

 

[nikro]

If folks noticed, the bits and pieces for 8.2.0-BETA1 have been committed to SF, but haven't been officially announced. I see on the forums that some folks have installed the -BETA1 image, but there are items that need to be worked on that we're monkeying around with before coming up with an official announcement (the FreeBSD project has a similar procedure). I'm going through the GUI and poking at things so I can route items over to some of the iX devs and we can improve things for a proper -BETA1 release (there are one or two critical items that I think could be fixed in order to prevent accidental 'paths of pain').

Sorry for any confusion this may have caused, but I just wanted to make this clear somewhere and I seem to get really good feedback on the forums from the user community.

I'll see if either Josh or I can start an "8.2.0 coming soon" post so progress can be tracked for the new release.

Thanks for your patience -- we (the FreeNAS 8 dev team) really appreciate it :).

Hello,

I had this prob on 8.2.0 beta1: GEOM: da0s1: geometry does not match label (16h,63s !=255h,63s)
Now I upgraded to 8.2.0 beta2, my NAS is working again but I lost all my volumes and settings.
All my Photos since 199x were on this NAS, what can I do to restore my stuff.

Thanks a lot for your help

 

[snax]

Hello,

I had this prob on 8.2.0 beta1: GEOM: da0s1: geometry does not match label (16h,63s !=255h,63s)
Now I upgraded to 8.2.0 beta2, my NAS is working again but I lost all my volumes and settings.
All my Photos since 199x were on this NAS, what can I do to restore my stuff.

Thanks a lot for your help

Try this:
1. Enable SSH and login to your NAS.
2. Look in /data for a file called "freenas-v1.db.bak." Note the file date.
3. Use SCP to copy this file to somewhere safe (i.e. other than your NAS)
4. Reinstall the version of FreeNAS that you had installed during the date of the above file (assuming it is prior to your using the betas).
5. Make a copy of the downloaded freenas-v1.db.bak to freenas-v1.db
6. Login to the web gui and:
a) Click System -> Settings -> General
b) Click Upload Config
c) Browse to the freenas-v1.db file and click Update.

AND STOP USING BETA SOFTWARE WITH YOUR IMPORTANT DATA

 

[nikro]

Try this:
1. Enable SSH and login to your NAS.
2. Look in /data for a file called "freenas-v1.db.bak." Note the file date.
3. Use SCP to copy this file to somewhere safe (i.e. other than your NAS)
4. Reinstall the version of FreeNAS that you had installed during the date of the above file (assuming it is prior to your using the betas).
5. Make a copy of the downloaded freenas-v1.db.bak to freenas-v1.db
6. Login to the web gui and:
a) Click System -> Settings -> General
b) Click Upload Config
c) Browse to the freenas-v1.db file and click Update.

AND STOP USING BETA SOFTWARE WITH YOUR IMPORTANT DATA

Thanks a lot for your help somebody else told me to click on auto import volumes and it worked.
Anyway I will follow your advice and use only released versions!

 

[x-cimo]

After FreeBSD 8.3 is released. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.3R/schedule.html shows it scheduled for the end of March. Seeing that it's already in RC1, that shouldn't be too off the mark.

I think 8.3 has been released, any idea how long before we see a release of freenas with up2date zfs version?

 

[ProtoSD]

If you look back several posts, or maybe it was another announcement, they said sometime in late May, or maybe early June since there have been some bumps with 8.2.

 

[ljw1]

I just checked the progress documentation and the dates in it are completely wrong. Is there any further updates as to when the next beta is coming out. With the plugin system completely borked it doesn't really allow us to test out the next stage of functionality to get it back up to freenas v7 levels.

 

[William Grzybowski]

Completely borked? What is wrong?

Did you fill support tickets to get them fixed?

 

[ljw1]

In the plugins forum there are issues that are being addressed in the next beta but there is no eta as far as I can find. Specifically I was referring to one of the developers saying to wait until the plugin system was fixed before even looking at it.

No I have not logged any support tickets as I was waiting until the plugin system was vaguely stable.

I must sound impatient to you, that is not my intention. The intention was to find out approximate timelines as I am planning my next nas migration and was wondering on time frames.