You know FreeBSD is in Beta and not formal release plus it's free. You don't have to use it. Many people have informed you that your system is likely the cause of your problems and I think you need to move to UDF if you will be running 2GB RAM.
FreeBSD in beta? Where? www.freebsd.org clearly states "Production Release 8.2".
That old system is dead. However, for none of the reasons the posters suggested. I still don't know the reason but it was strictly within the mobo. Anyhow this is academic now. I did fork out a pretty penny for a brand new mobo/cpu/ram which *should* (emphasis on should) ran ZFS OK.
As for ZFS, there is nothing wrong with it, it was designed for the administrator level computer user, not the typical home user so the interface is purely command line like the old DOS days.
Not really, I refer you to the horse's mouth i.e. Sun where it was marketed as the ultimate FS that will serve anything from desktop to datacentre. Just check the post above. Don't want to repeat the link.
I thing the developers are doing a great job and eventually they will have a nice final product but until then it's Beta.
Ah! The light comes on! No, the "product" is not in beta. It has been released. And, it is a *product*. It is not an Open Source / Best Effort code anymore. Two standards completely different. It is *supposed* emphasis on *supposed* to be a commercial product. As a commercial product I expect and demand a much higher standard of quality. If you check the composition of the FreeNAS project you will notice that there are 16 people (presumably full time) in the project.
They even have a so-called Test Engineer.
Now, in a pure Open Source project, it being a community endeavor, I would be more than happy to take a completely different point of view. Why? simple, people are not trying to make a buck out of it. Consequently, is caveat emptor. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
However, this is most definitively not the case with FN8. FN8 was *specifically* created as a commercial product, for profit. Otherwise they would have used FN7.
I can tell you the following facts from 20 years worth of experience in the IT Quality Field (if you must know, I am also a Certified Software Quality Engineer among other degrees) if that helps you:
1 - This "product" has not been tested. I don't know what the Test Engineer is doing but it is not testing. If this person would have been in my team, it would have been fired long time ago. Critical functions and parameters were *not*, I repeat *not* tested.
2 - The documentation is poor to unacceptable. How do I know this? Because I have written more IT manuals and SOPs that I care to remember.
3 - The "official" support is non-existent. Not even for the people that are killing themselves and burning untold hours and $$$ to ensure that *they* get a better product. This is what's called and "externality" in economic terms (look it up). In other words, we are doing the work for them and they are not forking a cent.
I saw your trouble ticket 524 which slammed the developers for a unacceptable product.
Yes, I slammed them because it is the right thing to do. Again, it is a *product* not a hobby-open-source-diy thingy. In hindsight I am doing them a favor. Do you actually thing that any IT organization will touch a product like FN8 in its current state? None that I know of. They need to shape up and shape up quickly. Frankly, with 16 people in the team I can't even fathom what is that they are doing with their time.
I *wish* I had 16 people in any of the projects I am working on. That would be *really* nice. And, again, if you must know, the projects I work on are life-critical. If the software fails, people can die. So, you see, you can't get more critical than that.
After reading several of your postings I see you as a bitchy spoiled kid with nothing nice to say to anyone. My words of advice is if you really feel that way, move on to WHS 2011, it's a nice new product and I'm sure it works great, then you can contact MS when something doesn't work to your satisfaction.
Again, you are completely missing the point. I bring forward valid arguments, arguments that are basic, critical and well supported. Sure, perhaps my language is not as terse and politically correct as others, well, though! English is my fourth language and I gave up on getting it completely right long time ago.
And with regards to WHS I dislike MS products since I got burned too many times in the past. However, I now also dislike FN8 since it has been greatly oversold. Maybe 8.3 will be OK, maybe not.
Lastly, and for the record, I will cross-post this message in other forum since it is likely it will be nuked. This is, of course, beyond my control but a record should stay.