Low Power Home NAS

[Ames]

Time Machine is working here under 9.2.1.2...

Code:

# uname -v ; ls -aln
FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p3 #0 r262572+825d682: Sat Mar  1 10:02:19 PST 2014    root@build.ixsystems.com:/home/jkh/checkout/freenas/os-base/amd64/tank/home/jkh/checkout/freenas/FreeBSD/src/sys/FREENAS.amd64
total 2097
drwxr-xr-x  3 10002  10002    8 Mar 23 16:39 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 10002  10002    6 Mar 23 16:39 ../
-rwxr-xr-x  1 10002  10002  499 Mar  2 15:05 Info.bckup*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 10002  10002  499 Mar  2 15:05 Info.plist*
drwxr-xr-x  2 10002  10002  6751 Mar 21 19:34 bands/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 10002  10002  445 Mar 23 16:39 com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.bckup*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 10002  10002  445 Mar 23 16:39 com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 10002  10002    0 Mar  2 15:05 token*

Well from what I've read there were TWO distinctly different versions of 9.2.1.2 both having the SAME version due to some bad decision making. I happened to have the BROKEN version also named 9.2.1.2. (don't know whether it's the latter or earlier version from a REROLL *DOUBLE-FACEPALM*). That is some poor software release management. I've since upgraded to 9.2.1.3 and TimeMachine works, Reporting system stats also seemed to be fixed as well. I read up on the GUI upgrade fail from 9.2.1.2 to 9.2.1.3 by others, and ran the extra step of pulling a script to /tmp called "fixh.sh" and executing it before the upgrade to 9.2.1.3. I did my due diligence in reading so that I wasn't victim to the opposite practice of "best practice".

 

[jgreco]

I'll side with "9.2.1.2 reroll is stupid." At the point where you have a sub-sub-sub point numbering system, the reroll obviously ought to have been numbered 9.2.1.3 and the new one 9.2.1.4. Actually I'm not a fan of going even that deep with point numbering; I'd be fine with 9.2.4.

 

[Ames]

I've starting rsyncing the contents of my non-ECC freenas 8.3.1 to the TS140 on freenas 9.2.1.3 w/ 4 x Seagate 4Tb in RAIDZ2.
System load avg was around 2 with power consumption at ~65W, the mini-tower is pretty much silent.
I'll be a happy camper when this is done (:

From: Freenas8.3.1-RAIDZ1 (READ)
[root@freenas] /mnt/vol1# zpool iostat 60
capacity operations bandwidth
pool alloc free read write read write
---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
vol1 4.90T 5.98T 13 7 1.32M 204K
vol1 4.90T 5.98T 293 80 35.1M 624K
vol1 4.90T 5.98T 289 82 34.6M 633K
vol1 4.90T 5.98T 290 76 35.0M 579K
To: Freenas9.2.1.3-RAIDZ2 (WRITE)
[root@freenas9] /mnt/vol1/net# zpool iostat 60
capacity operations bandwidth
pool alloc free read write read write
---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
vol1 437G 14.1T 0 100 12.7K 6.90M
vol1 443G 14.1T 2 733 10.1K 68.8M
vol1 445G 14.1T 1 725 7.33K 64.1M