Starting with 9.3

[Antonia Spurialis]

Sorry if this is the wrong place - but It seems like a valid question that will help others and perhaps a valid place now this forum is soon to be finished with as people upgrade.

I have been using FreeNAS-9.2.1.8-RELEASE-x86 (e625626) on limited hardware
2Gb built-in flash boot drive, 2Gb EEC RAM, Xeon 1.6
So have opted for UFS - 2xMirrored 500Gb
& limited to 32bit OS

Should/Can I upgrade to 9.3? there only seems one unspecified download iso
is that 64bit? -no 32 available?
Does it still support UFS?
Although 8Gb recommended min, bearing in mind small drives should I risk 2Gb RAM and go ZFS?
I note the new recommended boot space of 8Gb, but have fixed flash at 2Gb - could the area now required for updates etc be directed onto a hard disk partition?

A small observation I hope is being addressed. The Plugin default page is 'Available' - which begins an internet search rather than the more likely requirement of 'Installed'

 

[dlavigne]

That hardware won't run 9.3. See http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_intro.html#what-s-new-in-9-3 for more details.

 

[Antonia Spurialis]

That hardware won't run 9.3. See http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_intro.html#what-s-new-in-9-3 for more details.

Thanks very much for pointing me to the documentation which answers those questions. Is there a statement to the significant number of frugals which must be now left as previous version holders, that clarifies if they may receive some sort of consideration in the future?

 

[dlavigne]

That hardware was vaguely enough to run previous versions of FreeNAS. There are other open source NAS solutions available...