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jpaetzel
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I uploaded the FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA2 images to sourceforge yesterday morning without much fanfare.
Things went fairly well in the first beta and I'm shooting for 8.3.1-R by the end of the month, so here's another BETA to give things a spin.
At this point things are looking to be in good shape, I'm calling this a BETA because I'm very conservative, and because encryption can go wrong in such grand fashion. I'd rather this image wasn't used for critical or production use. Make sure to have backups!
That being said we have no reports of anyone losing data because of bugs in the encryption code, nor have we had any issues with it in our internal testing. (4 months give or take)
Images can be downloaded here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA2/
Release notes are at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA2/README/download
Enhancements
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1. Add a feature to initialize disks with random data.
2. Add the iconv option to rsync.
Bugfixes
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1. Fix a bug that was preventing multiple destination address for
SMART from working.
2. Create an empty /var/db/pkg to silence warnings from the SNMP
service.
3. Fix a bug that was preventing the default scrubs from running.
ZFS scrubs are very I/O intensive, and this update will fix many instances
where the default monthly scrub wasn't running. It's recommended to check
the scrub schedule and be aware of it's impact on FreeNAS.
4. Disable the ZFS encryption option when extending a volume. The system will
automatically match the encrrption state of the existing pool.
5. Commit changes to ataidle immediately rather than requiring a reboot.
6. Fix a bug that prevented creation of RAIDZ volumes.
7. Fix a bug that prevented stopping the CIFS service.
Things went fairly well in the first beta and I'm shooting for 8.3.1-R by the end of the month, so here's another BETA to give things a spin.
At this point things are looking to be in good shape, I'm calling this a BETA because I'm very conservative, and because encryption can go wrong in such grand fashion. I'd rather this image wasn't used for critical or production use. Make sure to have backups!
That being said we have no reports of anyone losing data because of bugs in the encryption code, nor have we had any issues with it in our internal testing. (4 months give or take)
Images can be downloaded here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA2/
Release notes are at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA2/README/download
Enhancements
========================
1. Add a feature to initialize disks with random data.
2. Add the iconv option to rsync.
Bugfixes
========================
1. Fix a bug that was preventing multiple destination address for
SMART from working.
2. Create an empty /var/db/pkg to silence warnings from the SNMP
service.
3. Fix a bug that was preventing the default scrubs from running.
ZFS scrubs are very I/O intensive, and this update will fix many instances
where the default monthly scrub wasn't running. It's recommended to check
the scrub schedule and be aware of it's impact on FreeNAS.
4. Disable the ZFS encryption option when extending a volume. The system will
automatically match the encrrption state of the existing pool.
5. Commit changes to ataidle immediately rather than requiring a reboot.
6. Fix a bug that prevented creation of RAIDZ volumes.
7. Fix a bug that prevented stopping the CIFS service.