Installing Linux software on FreeNAS and granting it access to ZFS pool?

[victorhooi]

Hi,

I'd like to install diskover - which is a file system indexer/crawler with a very neat web frontend.

(There is an open ticket to add it to FreeNAS here - but it seems to be in development hell/hiatus unfortunately).

Diskover requires Linux - so my question is, what's the easiest way to install Linux software on FreeNAS 11.x, and grant it access to the ZFS pool on FreeNAS, with acceptable performance?

Cheers,
Victor

 

[Stux]

Easiest?

How about practical?

Install Linux vm in bhyve, share via nfs

 

[victorhooi]

Yup, I can look into bhyve.

Out of curiosity, why NFS?

I'll be sharing the ZFS pool via SMB for MacOS clients.

Is there any advantage of NFS in this context over SMB?

Cheers,
Victor

 

[Stux]

Yup, I can look into bhyve.

Out of curiosity, why NFS?

I'll be sharing the ZFS pool via SMB for MacOS clients.

Is there any advantage of NFS in this context over SMB?

Cheers,
Victor

It’s more like sharing a Linux disk mount

 

[danb35]

Diskover requires Linux

Does it? Yes, its github page says it does, but it appears to be Python code, which runs just fine under FreeBSD. All of the specified dependencies also appear to be available under FreeBSD. Have you tried just installing it in a jail?

 

[garm]

I would be surprised if this was not running on FreeBSD. I might just try installing it in a jail this weekend.