FreeNAS reboots?

[pirateghost]

The funny thing is that the GUI warns you it will reboot and I'm willing to bet the documentation says it as well

 

[cyberjock]

You know, if updating is a problem, then just don't upgrade! I don't always upgrade as soon as its out. I upgrade when I have the opportunity to take the downtime. Like I'm two revisions behind on 1 server I have and one revision behind on another.

As long as you aren't hard pressed for a fix or feature that is added, there is no reason to be upset about the downtime.

Frankly, if you are using FreeNAS for production and are that hard pressed for a fix or feature, there is a solution. Buy High Availability from iXsystems. ;)

 

[LearnLearnLearn]

TrueNAS might be an option for somethings later on.

On a production box, I see no reason to have to update/reboot unless there is a critical bug fix or something. I've got my first box sitting in the server room humming along. I bought another identical box so I can play with redundancy. I'll build another one where I can mess with 'fun' features and functions.

And no, there was no warning of a reboot, it simply rebooted once it was done updating.
Otherwise... er... I'd have said no, to prevent the vms from crashing :)

 

[Bidule0hm]

Actually there's a warning: in the pop-up of the update, before accepting it.

Edit: figure 5.8b (just scroll down a bit) http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_system.html#update

 

[mjws00]

Pirateghost with 375 days uptime then yearly maintenance has it right. Fsck upgrades. Double fsck reboots.

Treat this as FIRMWARE. It's not a user space app. So of course it requires a reboot.

 

[LearnLearnLearn]

That's fine, never noticed it, don't recall seeing anything about a reboot but didn't expect it either so probably didn't look.
Good lesson however and yes, it's basically firmware, got it :)

 

[rogerh]

Although FreeNAS 9.3 offers updates much more frequently than many other projects you absolutely don't have to apply them more frequently than you would in other projects. Indeed, even most security updates will not be important if no outsiders have access to the machine, and you only have to apply other updates if something you want to do is broken. I can't think of anything important to me that didn't work in 9.3 release, I just like updates!

 

[LearnLearnLearn]

Yes, this is what has been determined. I gave FN a try in its early days but I've not used it in its current form so have nothing to compare to.
However, it seems pretty obvious that there isn't much need for updates once something is in production and working fine. I can't count how many
pieces of hardware I've run for years on end without ever updating them unless there was some specific need like compatibility or something.

Love it so far :)