You can run an older version if it hits your priorities better. You can tweak FreeNAS so that it doesn't write to your pool and spin up your drives. You can have ZFS on a more aggressive power managing platform. The only thing you can't have is the current vanilla FreeNAS GUI to let you do it. Heck you can even fork the code and put it in the GUI.
Personally I think this is a minor side effect for functional gains. Not an intentional direction. I see no significant hurdle to allowing logging to RAM as it used to, and finding a way to deal with Samba 4... The code exists already as it is how it used to work. But I'd need it pretty bad to code it myself.
Even in terms of the target larger storage market. Cold storage is becoming a real big deal. Stuff gets spun down and archived until we need it... no more keeping 100 drives spinning for no reason. So at some point they may have a 'reason' to reconsider power efficiency... but right now it seems there are more important issues.
I'd love to have the functionality in FreeNas for a "cold storage" pool. I've got lots of archive data sets that I power down manually. Automated would rock. Admittedly most of the time waiting for a drive to spin-up pisses me off. I also think that spin-up is when crap goes sideways. So I'm not their guy. But if I had 100 disks in a pool and needed to access them a few times a year quickly.... awesome.
Personally I think this is a minor side effect for functional gains. Not an intentional direction. I see no significant hurdle to allowing logging to RAM as it used to, and finding a way to deal with Samba 4... The code exists already as it is how it used to work. But I'd need it pretty bad to code it myself.
Even in terms of the target larger storage market. Cold storage is becoming a real big deal. Stuff gets spun down and archived until we need it... no more keeping 100 drives spinning for no reason. So at some point they may have a 'reason' to reconsider power efficiency... but right now it seems there are more important issues.
I'd love to have the functionality in FreeNas for a "cold storage" pool. I've got lots of archive data sets that I power down manually. Automated would rock. Admittedly most of the time waiting for a drive to spin-up pisses me off. I also think that spin-up is when crap goes sideways. So I'm not their guy. But if I had 100 disks in a pool and needed to access them a few times a year quickly.... awesome.