vdev design- IOPS questions
New to the forums and I'm building a new personal use system, and looking for insight on how to design my new system vdev/pool to work best for my needs of photo/video editing. My current resources are...
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Not able to set permissions on Top Level Dataset as of U2
After I updated to U2, I noticed that i can no longer set permissions for top level (or single level) datasets within a Pool and I cannot seem to figure out why. Did something change or am I missing...
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SMB v1 doesn't seem to work after upgrading to U2
I know this has been discussed over and over That said, I am not able to get it working. In U1, I was able to set the system tunable and everything worked. When I upgraded to U2, this no longer worked....
View Article[How-To] Set up Time Machine for multiple machines with OSX Server-Style Quotas
Normally, when you setup Time Machine (TM) you must use a Quota of some sort, or Time Machine will allocate all of the space on your FreeNAS server. The traditional approach is to use a dataset quota,...
View Article11.3 U2.1 Cannot access SMB shares
I have been banging my head against a wall for 3 days now and I hoping someone on here will be able to help. I have a new install of FreeNAS 11.3U2.1 that is connected to a Windows domain. All appears...
View ArticleNextcloud and OnlyOffice Integration
Basil Hendroff submitted a new resource: Nextcloud and OnlyOffice Integration - A collection of notes on how to integrate OnlyOffice with NextCloud. This is a collection of notes on how to get...
View ArticleTrueNAS 12.0 Features
We (iXsystems) posted a blog on the upcoming TrueNAS 12.0 (CORE and Enterprise) features at https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-core-features/ The feature summary text is below: The features in...
View ArticleAlternative to OpenVPN: SoftEther VPN
I tried to install OpenVPN and I found the process long and complicated and at the end, I had issues. I searched on the forum for an alternative like hamachi, neorouter and found nothing useful. I was...
View ArticleFreenas build to move from Synology DS916+
I've had a DS916+ now for three years. Two weeks ago it decided to bomb out on me - 4 disks disconnected from the bus at the same time (according to the OS logs), BTRFS crapped out, all data lost....
View ArticleReported space discrepency
After a little but of help as to what to do here please! Ended up replicating my 2-day old proof of concept NAS to a new machine after a drive failure on the machine everything was being copied from,...
View Articleboot pool DEGRADED even after replacement
I am still quite new to FreeNAS - but I think I am doing ok in general. My FreeNAS setup is running since a few weeks - but I have experienced a strange behavior of my boot pool that I don't...
View ArticleLACP ... friend or foe?
Too many LACP discussions lately. Here's what you need to know. 1) Link aggregation groups are an interesting way to boost network throughput. They're typically managed by a protocol called Link...
View ArticleRaid on the Boot Drive
Hi Folks Totally new to FreeNAS so please feel free to .... Had a read through the what you need 2016 build document, and things have certainly moved on since there. So on my first build foray I have a...
View ArticleDual Xeon 10Gb - All purpose office NAS
Hi there. Building a storage server for a new build office. The main purposes are: - Users' files centralised storage - Video surveillance storage - Asterisk calls records storage - Storage for DB...
View ArticleAfter replacing a disk and resilvering pool is still in degraded status and...
Hi, In recent weeks two (/dev/ada3 & /dev/ada5) of my eight drives started to report more and more bad sectors and errors so I've decided to replace them. I followed official instructions for...
View ArticleActive Directory Services "missing"?
Hi Team, I'm building a new Freenas system on a SuperMicro 12 bay SAS2 HBA setup. After finally getting past some issues with memory it is now installed, seeing all disks and ready to start...
View ArticleList of SSDs with Power Loss Protection
I tried searching and did not find... so I propose to build a list of all SSDs (PCI-E or M.2 NVME and SATA) that have Power Loss Protection. Inspired by this and this. For my build I am going to buy a...
View ArticleGitlab plugin subforum request
Now that Gitlab is an official plugin in 11.3, it'd help to have a place to aggregate discussion relevant to that topic. Probably the most common question will be: Should I keep the repositories in the...
View ArticleLong distance replication over VPN running 400Kbps
I have replication running over a VPN from one strong FreeNAS box, site A, to another strong FreeNAS box, site B (1000 miles away). I have more than 50Mbps at each end. The VPN processing can and does...
View ArticleDocker Options & FreeNAS
Hello, I am evaluating several FOSS NAS solutions for home surveillance, file storage, and containerization (specifically, Docker). Although my desire for native docker support is a priority for my...
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