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Re: FreeNAS is a cool FreebSD based NAS solution!
by Jason on Saturday March 31, @04:46PM
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It's amazing how quickly things change. I posted yesterday and there's already a new version of FreeNAS available for download. It's been updated from 0.68 to version 0.684b.
The new features listed on the freenas.org website are...
Added disk encryption with geli
Added an iSCSI-Target
Added swap file feature
Added powerd/cpufreq system power control utility
NTFS: Replaced ntfs FreeBSD module with ntfs-3g (R/W)
Added growfs tools (usable from the CLI only)
Added EXT2 filesystem creation support
Added an edoption for upgrading FreeNAS from CDROM
Multilanguage: Update languages files and add Japanese and Russian
Force only one UFS type: EFI GPT Partition with Softupdates, and permit to select percent of free disk space to kept (between 8 and 1)
I download the 0.684b.IMG file, used for upgrading an existing system, and the .ISO file used for installing a new system.
I upgraded my running system via the WebGUI firmware update feature with the.IMG file, which took only a minute or two, and it went without a hitch. After the update my system rebooted and came right back up displaying the new version in the WebGUI. I also noticed the FreeBSD version was updated to 6.2-RELEASE.
I decided to try a couple features. The first was UpNP (universal plug and play). I turned it on via the WebGUI and shortly after it appeared in the WindowsXP local network as FreeNAS:1. "Cool I thought", so went ahead and clicked on it. Unfortunately, my browser opened to http://192.168.1.250:49152/web/ushare.html and gave me a 404 Not Found error message. I fiddled with it for a few miniutes but never got any further.
Next, I scheduled an automatic shutdown (another handy feature). Since this NAS will be used so infrequently there's no sense in leaving it running 24/7. The schedule feature was easy to use and it worked great. I scheduled it to shutdown everyday at midnight. This way we can turn it on (it's headless), copy some files to it, and it will automatically shutdown at night (handy).
When I have a chance I'll try the new iSCSI target feature. I've been itching to play with it so it should be soon.
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