References

The TrueNAS References section includes additional information on various topics helpful for a TrueNAS user.

• Copyrights and Trademarks: Provides a list of copyrights and trademarks, and related logos registered as trademarks of iXsystems, dba TrueNAS.
  
  
• ACL Primer: Provides general information on POSIX and NFSv4 access control lists (ACLs) in TrueNAS systems and when to use them.
  
  
• Concepts and Terminology: Provides a glossary of terms and definitions used in TrueNAS and general network attached storage (NAS) software.
  
  
• Bits or Bytes?: Provides information on the computerized storage measurements, bits and bytes, and how these apply in TrueNAS products.
  
  
• Controller or Node?: Defines nodes and controllers, and explains how these apply to TrueNAS storage arrays and clusters.
  
  
• Understanding IPv6: Provides information general information on IPv6 and implementation guidance.
  
  
• IPMI: Provides TrueNAS connecting modes for remote management (IPMI) features, and configuration and general use information for remote management.
  
  
• L2ARC: Provides information on L2ARC, caches drives, and persistent L2ARC implementations in TrueNAS.
  
  
• Performance:

  This section contains performance testing results and other publications from the TrueNAS Performance team.

  • Interconnect Maximum Effective Data Rates: Tables of maximum effective data rates, in a single data flow direction, for various data interconnect protocols.
    
    
  • SMB Directory List Times: Performance data tables when listing large files counts over SMB.
    
    
  
  
  
• Interconnect Maximum Effective Data Rates: Tables of maximum effective data rates, in a single data flow direction, for various data interconnect protocols.
  
  
• SMB Directory List Times: Performance data tables when listing large files counts over SMB.
  
  
• SLOG Devices: Provides general information on ZFS intent logs (ZIL) and separate intent logs (SLOG), their use cases and implementation in TrueNAS.
  
  
• Server Message Block (SMB): Provides general information on SMB protocol and shares, shadow copies and Time Machine implementation in TrueNAS.
  
  
• Thin Provisioning: Provides general information on thin provisioning and zvol creation, their uses cases and implementation in TrueNAS.
  
  
• ZFS Deduplication: Provides general information on ZFS deduplication in TrueNAS, hardware recommendations, and useful deduplication CLI commands.
  
  
• ZFS Primer: Background information about the Zettabyte File System (ZFS).
  
  
• ZFS dRAID Primer: Background and general information about the dRAID storage solution included in OpenZFS version 2.1.0.
  
  
• ZFS ZIL and SLOG: Provides clarification on ZFS, ZIL, and SLOG concepts.
  
  
• ZFS Capacity Calculator: Calculator to determine usable ZFS capacity and other ZFS pool metrics, and to compare storage pool layouts.
  
  
• ZFS Capacity Graph: Capacity graph to visualize and compare different RAID layouts.
  
  
• RAIDZ Extension Calculator: Use this calculator to estimate the storage capacity efficiency of an extended ZFS RAIDZ VDEV. RAIDZ expansion adds disks to an existing RAIDZ VDEV.
  
  

If you are searching for additional information on a topic and are unable to find it, you can try searching the TrueNAS Community Forum.