FreeNAS-8.0.1-BETA4

[tmacka88]

Fast Write Slow Read

Just upgraded to 8.0.1 beta 4, and found that my write speed has improved by about 7MB/s. I got 51.5MB/s for a 3254MB file. When i tried reading the file I was only getting around 8-10MB/s. For the same file I used to get 56.1MB/s.

Any ideas or is it just cause its still Beta??

 

[ProtoSD]

See if this section of the FAQ helps:

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/FAQs#My_network_transfer_speeds_are_very_slow.2C_what_is_wrong.3F

 

[tmacka88]

Did a clean install on beta 4. All went ok except for when I tried adding an apple share. I had my volume setup and user account but when i chose an appleshare it would not show me a path to my volume. Also i just put in /mnt/Volumes1 into the field as volume1 was the name of my storage, but then wouldn't let me set it. it was asking for in red that I needed to fill out other fields such as Read only access, write only access, share password etc. there were others but i can't remember them.

Is there anyway of fixing this issue or is it a beta4 bug?

Thanks

 

[Likvid]

Same thing with CIFS shares, mounted volumes are not browsable when setting up the share, if you manually try to add the volume the system will not save it.

 

[tmacka88]

hey mate i fixed my by deleting freenas off the usb by reformatting it to FAT 32 or what ever then reinstalled beta 4 now it seems to work for me. Not sure why

 

[joelrondeau]

Can anybody help me add a url.alias to lighthttpd so I can share out a directory to my ROKU and stream my .MKV video files via Roksbox? I've tried, but Django complains that it is not a valid URL.

I have just successfully gotten freenas (8.0.3 p1) to serve up my m4v files to my Roksbox. I noticed that the freenas UI lets you access the media directory pretty freely, so I created a symbolic link to my movie files there. Here's what I did:
SSH into freenas machine. Logon as root.
mount -wu /
cd /etc/local/lighttpd

edit lighttpd to add the necessary mime type(s). In my case .m4v as "video/mpeg"

cd /usr/local/www/freenasUI/media

create a symbolic link to your media. In my case it was the following line:
ln -s /mnt/d0/movies/M4V movies
mount -ru /

exit out of freenas.

Roksbox settings:
Set media root folder to "media"
Set video folder path to "movies"
I use an xml file to keep all the movies. For each movie in the xml file, the path starts with media/movies/

And it just works. Hopefully it still will after the next reboot.

Update: It actually didn't work after the next reboot. However, once I got that sorted out I made a HOWTO page.
http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?5761-HOWTO-Get-Roksbox-working-with-FreeNAS-8