Making changes to Windows (CIFS) shares taking a long time?

[finsfree]

I'm still in the evaluation period of FREENAS.

So, I have created a volume then shared that volume using Windows (CIFS) share. Next, I created Datasets within that volume. NO BIG DEAL...Basic!

However, anytime I make changes to those Dataset shares it takes a really long time for the changes to take affect (like a day). For instance, as soon as I created those Datasets, I couldn't copy anything to them even with full access to Owner, Group & Other.

The only thing I can thing of is that the FREENAS is slow to make changes because I'm not using the recommended RAM (4GB instead of 8GB). Is this really my issue?

 

[krikboh]

8 GB is required not recommended. That could definitely be the cause of your slowdowns and could result in loss of data. If you are short on RAM I suspect the rest of your system may be lacking also and causing bad behavior. What are your full specs?


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[zambanini]

tell us more about your setup. hw spec, clients, cifs settings...

 

[finsfree]

It's an old Dell Dimension 9100 Click Here

The owners manual states that it only supports a maximum of 4GB of RAM. Guess I'm out of luck....

 

[krikboh]

Yeah not an appropriate system for FreeNAS. You would do better with a Linux distro.


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[zambanini]

lol, a pc from 2005. do yourself a favour. next time starting a project: start reading the manuals. freenas is no project to recycle your old hardware. we are talking about >8gb ecc ram, a sas hba, a modern cpu and enough time to educate yourself regarding zfs.

 

[gpsguy]

You might try NAS4free (www.nas4free.org).

More than likely, you discovered FreeNAS after reading about it online. FreeNAS 0.7 became NAS4free and iXsystems bought the name and developed newer versions (8.x & 9.x) that require significantly more resources than the old project.

It's an old Dell Dimension 9100 ...

The owners manual states that it only supports a maximum of 4GB of RAM. Guess I'm out of luck....