02
May
2011
FreeNAS™ 8 - Released.
James T. Nixon III Monday, 02 May 2011
An Overview on FreeNAS™ 8
The release of FreeNAS™ 8 includes major architectural optimizations, a django-driven user interface, and ZFS - lending us some useful features like thin provisioning, periodic snapshots, LDAP and Active Directory authorization along with the most popular platform sharing protocols.
FreeNAS™ 8 retains enterprise-class services while eliminating some "Home User" functionality such as iTunes/DAAP, Bit Torrent, and UPnP. These features will make it back as third-party plugins at a later date.
You may have noticed changes to FreeNAS.org :)
Comments (67)
Excellent work! Any idea when we can expect an update to FreeBSD 9 (and data de-deduplication support)?
YAY!!
Great UI!!Great design !!!
Wait for long time!!Thanks
I said "YAY!" As in congratulations, this is good news. Thanks for deleting my post.
Your post was awaiting moderation approval ;-), sorry for the delay!
I want back UPnP ç_ç
Congrat...,
i will try as soon as possible.
Now i'm still using Freenas 7.2 and there is no problem with it until now...
Congratulations everybody, thank you Dev Team :-)
Congratulations! I can't wait to replace our OpenFiler appliances :-)
Absolutely a big thanks for the continuation of FreeNAS and the switch to Django as framework. FreeNAS will enlarge the choice of ZFS-based storage OS with ease of management :-) Yay!
Where is RSYNC !!!???? :O
I'm testing this release since the RC5, Rsync has disapeared from the GUI, and the scheduled snapshot feature seems not to work properly... As I can see, the final release has the same trouble. I hope it will be fixed quickly. However, in my mind, Freenas stays a really easy and robust storage system.
Awesome website-design!
any ideas to make it works under hyper-v with scsi adapter ?
No more upnp :(
Outstanding! Love the periodic snapshots feature.
Will be possible to upgrade from 0.72?
Upgrades from 0.7 are not supported:
"the system has no way to import configuration settings from 0.7 versions of FreeNAS, nor is there any sort of volume importer yet that will preserve data on existing volumes."
Does this mean we now have a working iSCSI stack?? If so that's great news as I can begin testing it against the likes of DSS and OF (had to stop testing due to broken iSCSI previously).
I need to know if Freenas support AD authentication with Windows 2008 Server please? Can't get it working, is it supported in the new version?
Sorry, FreeNAS 8 only works with 2k or 2k3. :(
Bah! How do you not support the present industry standard!?
Congrats on the release. I didn't see RSYNC in the features, is that due for a plug-in follow-on?
:) RSYNC and some other "missing" features will be added in the (hopefully) near future. Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you think!
I have tested the RCs and panicked when I could not locate rsync. I cannot upgrade without it. Even if I can set it up manually, it would be a royal mess. Please hurry ;-)
I was hoping rsynch would be integrated in the final release. Without it I simply can't deploy it, it's one of the main features!
So I vote also for a "please hurry!"
Congratulation for the RELEASE milestone.
Keep up with the good work and....
Thanks
How to install 3DM2 used to control the RAID controller card?
Got it, wait for a long.
I've been waiting for this day, for soooooooooooo long. Thank you to the outstanding job the development team did on brining FreeNAS to GA.
Thanks!!!!
Error error error! Its not released is RC6...
No. It's not RC6 it is FreeNAS 8, Release! ;-)
@FreeNASTeam or is Alex talking about the fact that there are issues with this release?
Hrm, what kind of issues is he having? (if you had to guess)
Great Job
Great job!
going to install and play around tonight!
I'd love to test it for you, but without UPnP / fuppes, it doesn't meet my primary objective. If I had a spare box around, I'd be more than happy to test it as is. Do you have an estimate on when UPnP will be supported?
I want to upgrade so bad, but UPNP and RSYNC are 2 features I need...
I dont see transmission listed either. oh and Thanks for the new release, I can't wait for some features to be added back :) and I like the new web site... very sweet... good job guys!
Really impressed with this, but sadly I can't move production until encryption is implemented, as this is an absolute requirement. I understand geli encryption is coming soon in zfs v31 when it's ready; any guess on when this is coming would be greatly appreciated. I truly appreciate you folks taking up the mantle of a great product -- thanks for all your efforts and keep up the good work!
woow....
glad to hear that..going to install
Where is Transmission ?:(
Anyone else hitting "Sorry an error occurred messages" when trying to view the services switchpanel?
I get that message when trying to view storage. No idea how to fix it.
proftp still not working
Need UPS support and multimedia features as soon as possible. However great job! Congratulation
I press the "service" and try to setup service on/off, but got error that it can't show anything!
Same as my issue above - glad I'm not the only one, I'm hoping a reinstall fixes it but don't want to be doing that once I've got data on there!
i need RYSNC !!!!
thats some great news
Great Job! Nice Web-Frontend! But i'm missing upnp & rsync :-(
Great job guys and gals! I am upgrading as we speak. I am wondering if the issue of relocating the tmp/log files has been fixed (from the USB boot device to a physical disk). My RC5 (all through first 8 beta) crash every 2-3 days with a panic:kmem error. I tried relocating the temp files to one of the physical disks but it reverts back in seconds.
uptime of 5 hours mine crashed with a panic:kmem_malloc(131072): kmem_map too small. guess time to check forums :)
Already did. Nothing out there specific to Freenas. This is an inherited problem from 0.7. The loader.conf has to be changed with few new values, however, the entire boot directory is set to read only and nobody (not even root) can change that.
Exactly the same error I get.
One more major issue for me:
My NFS shares for VMware datastores is extremely slow. I can only get 3-4 MBps throughput rate, no matter all the tweaking on VMware site. My CIFS shares, on the other site, can go above 55MBps, which is kind of unexpected. Is there any tweaking on the NFS shares to improve performance. Unfortunately my only unix machines to test performance are my vmware hosts (ESX 4.1) so I am not sure if it is strictly NFS, though my ESX hosts are optimized for NFS.
I got totally screwed with the update from RC4 to R: Because of hitting "new installation", all settings have been removed. No problem with that - stupid key typing.
BUT: I wasn't able to get the ZFS-Pools back again, I lost the whole 10TB-Backup. I can't understand this. Every Linux-Raid can be system-independent detected by mdadm, at least after telling which devices are to be together. No such possibility in Freenas. If I define the disks manually -> all data will be lost during init.
I'd had to recopy (manually, no RSYNC WUI...) so I went back to a simple UbuntuServer with mdadm. Copying and syncing 10TB over LAN takes more than one day.
You should seriosly consider some other security measures for ZFZ-Pools
Forgot: No import was possible! It only "detected" one of three pools, even though one "pool" consisted only of one full device. The detected pool wasn't able to get imported.
Man, I was quite unlucky. I leave Freenas because such a problem is simply not allowed for any release in a production environment.
No scrub schefuling, no system log web-view... No HDD web-smart control...
No more rsync, transmission, upnp ...
What do you guys wan't the future of freenas to be ???
A file server for enterprise lazy admins ???
I'm so sad ;-(
Regards,
Laurent
agree
Would advise against trying to update to 8 until they get a working upgrade path. You cannot import ZFS pools.
Have spent 3 hours messing with 8, now I've gotta reinstall 7
Lots of hard work. thanks dev team.
What's the chances of getting backup exec client integrated ? We all know it's not SUPPORTED on openbsd and I just had to shell out a couple thousand for POS Overland snap 410's that have the client integrated so I can hang a tape drive off it. I would have much more preffered donating to your project and helping to support such a GREAT project.
Great job guys (and gals if any)!! Keep up the great work. The product is looking better and better with each release. Thanks do much for providing a free solution. More often you hear complaints about "adding this or that feature" or "where is this missing feature" :) Seriously. Great job!!
Is there any documentation on how plugins would interface with the new version?
Nice Job. Congratulations for all freenas team. =).
Everyone knows about the samba and he's license (GPLv3). The guys from apple is working on a substitute to the samba that improves compatibility with new windows (vista, seven and upcoming). Have some chance that this software be opensource and come to FreeNAS ?. Would very nice have a more powered replacement that match with actual standards.
Again, nice work freenas team!.
Don't know, what I should think about this evolution. I always thought, opensource is software from users for users. Now I can read: "FreeNAS 8 retains enterprise-class services while eliminating some "Home User" functionality such as iTunes/DAAP, Bit Torrent, and UPnP. These features will make it back as third-party plugins at a later date."
So, where is freenas going? Made public with a large count of home users, now following the great money while cutting off home-user-functionalities? I really worry about that...