Roadmap for E-cores and Wifi support?

[consideringTrueNAS]

Hi, I read from some old threads that E cores as well as Wifi were not supported. How is the situation for this year?
What will happen if I don't disable E-cores and install/run TrueNAS? I have not decided whether to use Core or Scale.

 

[danb35]

I don't expect there's any interest at all with the devs in supporting WiFi. It's a server, use a wired connection.

 

[consideringTrueNAS]

The router provided by the ISP is located in a different room as my computer room. Usually I just connect my desktop PC, printer and other devides to the LAN and the internet via Wifi. If I build a TrueNAS system and try to avoid having a long wire running across two rooms, what options do I have?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Place the NAS next to the router. Or get a cheap WiFi bridge with an Ethernet port. E.g. a used Apple Airport Express from eBay. Great small devices.

 

[Whattteva]

WiFi likely will never be supported.
You can repurpose an old router (if you have one lying around) and configure it as a wireless ethernet bridge. Most decent ones will likely support it. If it doesn't, research if it's possible to reflash the firmware into DD-WRT or OpenWRT so it can support WiFi bridging mode.

 

[danb35]

Place the NAS next to the router.

Yeah, this, pretty much. Or the router next to the NAS.

 

[Arwen]

Seems no one answered about the E-Cores. Today, they should be supported reasonably well. And each update that includes a kernel update, will probably get better.

 

[mav@]

FreeBSD CPU scheduler indeed doesn't differentiate the cores, it looks only on hyper-threading, caches and memory topology, assuming all cores are equal otherwise. So some amount of inefficiency is possible due to putting a load on less suitable CPU. But since not many workloads on NAS require heavy computations like SSE or AVX, I'd expect the difference to not be dramatic.