TrueNAS Core 12.0 Nightly Snapshots Available

[Kris Moore]

FreeNAS (And now TrueNAS CORE) Fans,

As mentioned in last weeks merge announcement, we had planned on very quickly making TrueNAS CORE 12.0 snapshot images available. I'm pleased to inform that the images have just gone live. Brave testers and developer-types can now upgrade from 11.3 by changing trains to "TrueNAS-12.0-Nightlies" in the upgrade UI, or install fresh from ISO images available below.

*CAUTION* These are nightly snapshots, not releases. Not for production use, danger, here be dragons, etc.

Nightly ISO:
http://download.freenas.org/12.0/MASTER/latest/x64/

 

[ornias]

Maybe add a nice popup in the UI for nightlies?

Let people enter:
"I Understand I Might Destroy EVERYTHING"

Even worse: Make it so it's an image and they can't cheat with ctrl-c ctrl-v...
Am I that evil? yes... Lawfully evil.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Vade retro, Satanas! :)

 

[Kris Moore]

Lol, that would be a good idea. We do have the big "NOT for PRODUCTION use" scary warning right below the train though.

 

[ornias]

Lol, that would be a good idea. We do have the big "NOT for PRODUCTION use" scary warning right below the train though.

I think we all know of someone who thought... "Well, this isn't REALLY production..." before... well... "fun" happened...

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

We gave developers a PoC to toy with and two weeks later we could not switch it off because it was productive ...

But more on-topic: W00t!

Code:

    NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
    zfs                                             ONLINE       0     0     0
      mirror-0                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/c660ff77-63b2-11ea-9403-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/c681b7e4-63b2-11ea-9403-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0
      mirror-1                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/c653cf7b-63b2-11ea-9403-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/c66ede73-63b2-11ea-9403-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0
    special   
      mirror-2                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/f06cd1fc-28b8-11ea-a346-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/f06a0980-28b8-11ea-a346-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0

And the special_small_blocks works per dataset! How cool is that? ;)

Update itself went without a hitch, mDNS announcements seem to be broken. Great work, folks!

Patrick

 

[anodos]

We gave developers a PoC to toy with and two weeks later we could not switch it off because it was productive ...

As they say "Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution"

But more on-topic: W00t!

Code:

    NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
    zfs                                             ONLINE       0     0     0
      mirror-0                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/c660ff77-63b2-11ea-9403-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/c681b7e4-63b2-11ea-9403-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0
      mirror-1                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/c653cf7b-63b2-11ea-9403-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/c66ede73-63b2-11ea-9403-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0
    special
      mirror-2                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/f06cd1fc-28b8-11ea-a346-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0
        gptid/f06a0980-28b8-11ea-a346-0cc47afa3c72  ONLINE       0     0     0

And the special_small_blocks works per dataset! How cool is that? ;)

Update itself went without a hitch, mDNS announcements seem to be broken. Great work, folks!

Patrick

For mdns run command midclt call service.restart mdns.

 

[anodos]

Samba is running 4.12.0 with quite a few experimental changes. One of them is that it's using FreeBSD's POSIX AIO, which can be tuned via the relevant sysctls. A few other SMB changes:
- Share (not just filesystem) ACLs are also now exposed in the webui
- The NetBIOS name server is disabled by default (can be re-enabled under Network -> Global Configuration).
- There is GUI support for trusted domains in active directory (more comprehensive idmap editor).
- Everything related to libzfs is currently in a state of flux (expect random breakages for the time being).
- SMB shares now default to SA-based xattrs.

 

[ornias]

And the special_small_blocks works per dataset! How cool is that? ;)

Special Allocation Classes are like a storages nerd's "special" dream...
So many things will change with ZFS... Besides performance, like being finally able to use deduplication without breaking the bank.
I think Team-IX is very happy with this for the lower-end of TrueNAS systems for some customers :)

 

[turment]

Are we expected to do a inplace upgrade or reinstall completely from zero to have OpenZFS 2.0 and all other new features?

 

[Kris Moore]

Are we expected to do a inplace upgrade or reinstall completely from zero to have OpenZFS 2.0 and all other new features?

Normal upgrade is all you have to do. Once you are running 12 you will need to also do the zpool upgrade to enable those new features.

 

[turment]

Normal upgrade is all you have to do. Once you are running 12 you will need to also do the zpool upgrade to enable those new features.

Thanks, I will use the nightly on the backup server of the backup server to understand all the news in the mean time. ;)

 

[turment]

Normal upgrade is all you have to do. Once you are running 12 you will need to also do the zpool upgrade to enable those new features.

Facing major network problems: Unable to connect to url https://update-master.ixsystems.com/TrueNAS/trains.txt: Automatic update check failed. Please check system network settings. SMB and SSH gone to hell too.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

For mdns run command midclt call service.restart mdns.

That prints "False" and exits, discovery by Bonjour on my Mac still not working. Not a big deal for a development snapshot.

 

[Kris Moore]

Facing major network problems: Unable to connect to url https://update-master.ixsystems.com/TrueNAS/trains.txt: Automatic update check failed. Please check system network settings. SMB and SSH gone to hell too.

Is the network up? Can you "# ping google.com" on the box?

 

[turment]

Is the network up? Can you "# ping google.com" on the box?

Yep. I dunno why I get those errors. I checked up DNS, gateway, etc and still have them. Moreover SMB shares are unusable. Much better I rollback and wait some months to give it a try.

 

[Kris Moore]

No worries. If you can send us a debug before you do that would be great, just so we can look at what may have happened in this instance. (And see if we can fix it for others)

 

[turment]

If you can send us a debug before you do that would be great,

I would have done but it did not reboot anymore. :( Perhaps a clean install instead of an upgrade would be luckier?

 

[ornias]

I would have done but it did not reboot anymore. :( Perhaps a clean install instead of an upgrade would be luckier?

It shouldn't point to "https://update-master.ixsystems.com/TrueNAS/trains.txt" at all I think, as that file doesn't contain the nightly train...

 

[turment]

It shouldn't point to "https://update-master.ixsystems.com/TrueNAS/trains.txt" at all I think, as that file doesn't contain the nightly train...

At least, even if not booting anymore, there is one bug I could report :)