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FreeNAS 0.69.1 erschienen

FreeNAS ist ein freier NAS (Network-Attached Storage) Server mit folgenden Eigenschaften: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI, S.M.A.R.T., lokale Benutzeranmeldung, Software RAID (Level 0,1,5), Administration über eine Weboberfläche.

FreeNAS benötigt weniger als 32MB Speicherplatz nach der Installation auf Compact Flash Karte, Festplatte oder USB Speicherstick. Die kleinstmögliche FreeBSD-Distribution, das Webinterface, die PHP Scripte und Dokumentationen basieren auf M0n0wall.

Majors changes:

    * Upgrade Samba to 3.0.34.
    * Upgrade ProFTPD to 1.3.2.
    * Upgrade mDNSResponder to 1.08.6.
    * Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.22.
    * Upgrade cdialog to 1.1.20080819.
    * Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.4.
    * Upgrade nut to 2.4.1.
    * Upgrade transmission to 1.51.
    * Upgrade fusefs-ntfs/ntfs-3g to 2009.2.1.
    * Upgrade 3Ware serial ATA RAID controller driver to 9.5.1.
    * Upgrade bash to 4.0.10.


Minors changes:

    * Add 'SSL/TLS only' on 'Services|FTP' page to allow TLS/SSL connections only.

    * Add 'Reverse DNS lookup' on 'Services|FTP' page. This and the 'Ident protocol' option are disabled per default because they may slow down or break the user login to the FTP server in some situations.
    * Add 'Authentication' checkbox on 'Services|BitTorrent' page to enable/disable authentication for TransmissionBT WebGUI.
    * Add checkbox to enable WOL on 'Network|Interfaces|LAN' and 'Interfaces|Optionalx' pages. Please note that WOL only works for nfe, nve, sis, vr, xl.
    * Add traceroute6 command (FR 2531610).
    * Add *.iso support to Fuppes UPnP (FR 2521047).
    * Move 'm2ts' video file extension to 'default' section (BR 2643180).
    * Add 'Remote monitoring' to 'Services|UPS' to allow adding remote monitors that monitor the local installed UPS in slave mode.
    * Use WebGUI administrator password for the NUT user 'root'.
    * Add ability to mount UDF ISO images.
    * Disable download feature in Quixplorer because there are misc. (PHP and system) limitations that makes this feature senseless.
    * Prevent generation of core dump files (BR 2662404). Can be enabled via 'System|Advanced|sysctl.conf'.
    * Add ability to enable/disable sysctl variables in 'System|Advanced|sysctl.conf'.
    * Add XMLRPC services that are available via http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xmlrpc.php, e.g. system.getInfo.
    * Add ability to configure ProFTPD module mod_ban via WebGUI (FR 2546338).
    * Add device I/O statistics to 'Status|Disks' page (FR 2704919).
    * Replace msntp with FreeBSD's ntpdate.
    * Allow setting TransmissionBT WebGUI user name (FR 2745563).
    * Allow to set the following TransmissionBT settings via WebGUI: peer port, port forwarding, pex, encryption mode and max. upload/download bandwidth (FR 2765940).


Bug fixes:

    * Set correct friendly name in fuppes.cfg for Xbox 360. The correct friendly name will be generated automatically (e.g. 'xxxx : 1').
    * Set correct shutdown property in upsmon.conf (BR 2521141).
    * Starting FTP service fails when using DHCP on LAN interface (BR 2519951).
    * FPSyncDir patch correction (BR 2546107).
    * UPS service improvements. Display NUT messages in syslog and send emails when using shutdown mode 'UPS reaches low battery' (BR 2549047).
    * Change user agent string for PS3 to 'PLAYSTATION 3' in fuppes.cfg (BR 2600554).
    * Formating disks with 'Software RAID' doesn't clear GEOM metadata (BR 2609681).
    * GUI menu separator line too thick in Safari (BR 2652160). Thanks to skabde.
    * Add patch for PHP bug #45996 (libxml2 2.7 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()).
    * Display dialog to set WebGUI port when configuring network settings via console menu (BR 2661938).
    * Fix problem with DAAP & Mac iTunes 8.1 (BR 2701606). Thanks to Alexey Sannikov.
    * Fix false positive bug while detecting disk mount state (BR 2706994). Thanks to desummoner for the patch.

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Majors changes:

    * Add another WOL patch. It is tested for nfe(4) und xl(4). Thanks to Tobias Reber.
    * Add switch in 'System|Advanced' WebGUI to enable the console screensaver (FR 2777301).
    * Upgrade Adaptec SCSI RAID administration tool to 6.10.18359.
    * Add ability to enable or disable rc.conf variables configured via 'System|Advanced|rc.conf'.
    * Add danish WebGUI translation. Thanks to all translators.
    * Add kernel patches to get ARTiGO A2000 hardware working. Thanks to David Davis for the patches.
    * Add ability to use %d (date) and %h (hostname) in email subjects (e.g. Services|UPS) (FR 2796141).


Minors changes:

    * Add 'MaxLoginAttempts' event to FTP ban list rules (FR 2777481).
    * Add 'ClientConnectRate' event to FTP ban list rules.
    * Allow selecting the key length of the cryptographic algorithm used to encrypt a disk (FR 2779692).
    * Add system power control options to 'System|Advanced|rc.conf' (FR 2784889).
    * Show FTP transfer log in 'Diagnostics|Logs|FTP|Transfer' (FR 2785325).
    * Add filechooser button to 'Home directory' editbox in 'Access|Users|Edit' WebGUI (FR 2790909).
    * Sort various lists displayed in the WebGUI using a 'natural order' algorithm (FR 2481934). Thanks to Marion Desnault for the patch.


Bug fixes:

    * It was not possible to configure multiple FTP ban list rules. Thanks to Michael Zoon.
    * Modify Fuppes UPnP configuration to get PS3 with firmware 2.70 working again (BR 2782729).
    * Editing existing config items in WebGUI will display incorrect data (e.g. 'System|Advanced|rc.conf' or 'System|Advanced|sysctl.conf') (BR 2792956).
    * Fix bug in WebGUI which is caused by unhandled special HTML characters used in various languages (BR 2793875).
    * Set Quixplorer user permissions to 'View only' because of security reason because Quixplorer does not respect system user permissions (BR 2798934).
    * Disk temperature not detected correct for SCSI devices (BR 2801565).
    * Fix JPCERT/CC JVN#89791790 (Cross-site scripting vulnerability).

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Majors changes:

    * Add ability to configure the login shell for a user.
    * Upgrade Samba to 3.0.37.
    * Upgrade transmission to 1.72.
    * Local users must join the group 'ftp' to be able to login via FTP if 'Local users only' in 'Services|FTP' is enabled.
    * Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.23.
    * Add a user portal. This allows a local user to login and change it's password. The user must have access permissions to login to the user portal. This can be configured in the user configuration WebGUI. Please note that the administrator needs to apply changes done by the local users because there have to be restarted several services (which is not allowed to be done by a user).
    * Upgrade ProFTPD to 1.3.2a.
    * Upgrade iSCSI initiator to 2.2.3.
    * Upgrade fusefs-ntfs/ntfs-3g to 2009.4.4.
    * Announce AFP shares using Bonjour/ZeroConf (FR 2839592). Thanks to Morton Jonuschat.
    * Add AFP FP_SYNCFORK command support (FR 2836955). Thanks to Morton Jonuschat for the patch.
    * Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.8.
    * Add Adaptec AACRAID 32/64-bit driver to v5.2.0 Build 17517.
    * Upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.14.10.
    * Upgrade fuppes to SVN-0.640.


Minors changes:

    * Set transmission umask to 0002 per default. This can be customize via the 'Services|BitTorrent' WebGUI or the rc.conf variable 'transmission_umask' (FR 2813791).
    * Add ixgbe driver to i386 kernel.
    * Add ixgb driver to AMD64 kernel (BR 2813759).
    * Add support for Blowfish 448 bits encryption (FR 2816028).
    * Add configuration option in 'Services|BitTorrent' to enable/disable usage of distributed hash table (DHT).

    * Add /usr/bin/getopt command (FR 2824548).
    * Add extra options for S.M.A.R.T. in 'Disks|Management|Disk|Edit' (FR 2824730).
    * Add RAID1 balance algorithm 'prefer' (FR 2833989).
    * Add latvian language support. Thanks to the translators.
    * Update Quixplorer russian translation (BR 2841900). Thanks to Alexey Sannikov.
    * Add 'Max. login attempts' to 'Services|FTP' (FR 2844193).
    * Get AFP dbd cnid scheme working (BR 2844900).
    * Set 'dir-listing.encoding = "utf-8"' for the webserver directory listing (FR 2872624).
    * Display volume serial number in 'Disks|Management' (FR 2881880).
    * Now it is possible to configure iSCSI-Targets for export: removable media (static & dynamic size), pass-through devices. Thanks to Vasily Chalykh.


Bug fixes:

    * Prohibit user 'transmission' to login via FTP.
    * ZPool disk space usage isn't displayed correctly (BR 2810584).
    * Improved Unison WebGUI to be able to configure ZFS shares as working directory (BR 2795084).
    * Synchronizing ZFS configuration fails (BR 2814324).
    * Restrict bittorrent administrative WebGUI port to [1024,65535] (BR 2835342).
    * The 'Unmount disk/partition' checkbox on 'Disks|Mount Point|Fsck' was ignored (BR 2860297).

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Der Hauptentwickler von FreeNAS will die kommende Version 0.8 vollständig neu auf Basis von Debian erstellen.

FreeNAS ist eine minimale FreeBSD-Distribution, die NAS (Network-Attached Storage)-Dienste bereitstellt, darunter CIFS, FTP und NFS. Als BSD-lizenzierte Distribution ermöglicht sie auch die Verwendung des Dateisystems ZFS. Sie kann von Compact Flash oder CD-ROM gebootet und betrieben werden und besitzt eine vollständige webbasierte Konfigurationsoberfläche.

Während die aktuelle Version von FreeNAS allmählich recht ausgereift ist und lediglich noch Dokumentation missen lässt, sieht der Hauptentwickler des Projekts einige Mängel im aktuellen System. Er begründet dies in der Diskussion damit, dass er Feature-Wünsche der Benutzer mit FreeBSD nicht erfüllen könne. Nur eine Neuimplementation könne das Problem beheben. Diese vollständige Neuimplementation entsteht derzeit als CoreNAS. Die Beschreibung von CoreNAS ist rudimentär: Ein NAS, das auf Debian beruht. Es ist ein temporäres Projekt, das zu FreeNAS 0.8 werden soll.

Der Entwickler sieht eine Reihe von Vorteilen in dem Wechsel. Das textbasierte und das grafische Installationsprogramm können gut angepasst werden, was die bekannten Probleme mit den bisherigen Installations-Skripten beseitigen soll. Wake-On-LAN (WOL) würde funktionieren. Ferner bietet Linux ein funktionierendes Hardware-Sensor-Framework (lmsensors), das in FreeNAS bisher schmerzlich vermisst wird. Die Geschwindigkeit von Samba soll besser sein, und es können Hochverfügbarkeits-Funktionen und NFSv4 verwirklicht werden. Updates des Systems wären einfach zu machen, und die Treiberunterstützung wäre generell besser. Ein Nachteil wäre das Fehlen des Solaris-Dateisystems ZFS, das möglicherweise durch ein FUSE-Dateisystem ersetzt werden könnte. Wahrscheinlicher ist jedoch die Option, btrfs zu verwenden, auch wenn dieses erst 2010 stabil werden dürfte.

Viele Benutzer sind über die bevorstehende Änderung nicht besonders glücklich. Dagegen sollten sich Linux-Anwender mit einem Linux-basierten System wesentlich leichter anfreunden können. Ein Fork des FreeBSD-basierten FreeNAS scheint unnötig, da die bald erscheinende Version 0.7 noch einige Jahre gepflegt werden soll. Dies würde die zahlreichen Benutzer zufrieden stellen, die ZFS als wichtigstes Argument für FreeNAS nennen. Das neue FreeNAS wird dem Autor zufolge veröffentlicht, wenn es fertig ist, ein Zeitplan existiert nicht. Er zeigt sich aber vom Umstieg auf Debian und dem bisherigen Fortschritt begeistert. Er bezeichnet die umfangreiche Debian-Infrastruktur als »verdammt cool« und will sie in vollem Umfang nutzen. Bis zum Ende des Jahres soll ein Prototyp vorliegen.

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Das FreeNAS-Projekt will weiter auf FreeBSD setzen. Das von Volker Theile initiierte Tochter-Projekt OpenNAS wurde in OpenMediaVault umbenannt. Beide Projekte sollen parallel zueinander entwickelt werden.

Der ursprüngliche Begründer von FreeNAS, Olivier Cochard-Labbé, wird in das Projekt wieder einsteigen und weiterhin auf FreeBSD setzen. Eine Version 8.0 mit Unterstützung für das ZFS-Dateisystem soll mit seiner Hilfe erscheinen. Cochard-Labbé teilte in seinem Blog außerdem überraschenderweise mit, das Unternehmen iXsystems werde FreeNAS übernehmen und als Community-Projekt weiterführen. FreeNAS wird für die Version 8.0 komplett umgeschrieben.

Währenddessen wird das, ursprünglich als OpenNAS bekannt gewordene, von Volker Theile ins Leben gerufene, FreeNAS-Teilprojekt in OpenMediaVault umbenannt. Theile hatte geplant, FreeNAS auf Debian zu portieren. Er wird nun parallel an beiden Projekten mitarbeiten. Theile war bis jetzt der einzige aktive Entwickler des Projekts.

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Ein aktuelles Changelog scheint nicht verfügbar zu sein ...

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Upgrade Notes
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 - Before upgrade you must always backup your configuration file, your
   system disk and all your data (if possible).
 - DO NOT use firmware upgrade if your installed FreeNAS revision is lower
   than 0.7(4975). Firmware upgrade from any version < 0.7(4975) is not
   recommended. The safest way to upgrade from any version < 0.7(4975),
   to 0.7.1, is to boot the LiveCD and use the upgrade options.
 - WARNING: If you try to do a firmware upgrade from a version < 0.7(4975),
   the process might fail with Broken Pipe or Mount / Umount related errors.
   Testing shows these symptoms occur frequently. If you encounter any of
   them during an attempted, unrecommended upgrade the only solution is to
   re-install from scratch, this will delete all data on the OS disk.

Downgrade Notes
===============
 - Downgrading from 0.7.1 to any version less than 0.7(5001) is not
   recommended.
 - If you try downgrade to a version < 0.7(5001), the partitions may break
   or be corrupted leaving the system unusable and possibly destroying data
   stored on the OS drive.

Other Notes
===========
 - The addition of new software makes the OS almost 1MB bigger.

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FreeNAS 0.7.2 Sabanda

Sunday, 17 October 2010 build 5462

Majors changes:

    *
      Upgrade to FreeBSD 7.3-p3.
    *
      Upgrade unison to 2.32.52.
    *
      Upgrade bsnmp-ucd to 0.3.2.
    *
      Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.12.
    *
      Upgrade smartmontools to 5.40.
    *
      Upgrade php5 to 5.2.14.
    *
      Upgrade transmission to 2.10.
    *
      Upgrade samba to 3.5.5.
    *
      Increase image size to 72MB, mfsroot to 180MB.
    *
      Increase default install size embedded to 120MB, full to 380MB.
    *
      Increase default swap size to 256MB.
    *
      Ireasnce memory disk for firmware upgrade to 128MB.
    *
      Create 4KB aligned data partition on the boot disk.
    *
      Upgrade arcconf to 6.40.18530.
    *
      Upgrade cdialog to 1.1.20100428.
    *
      Set kern.hz=100 when running on virtual machine and kern.hz>100.
    *
      Add virtual machine guest support (open-vm-tools/vbox-additions).
    *
      Upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.18.36.
    *
      Upgrade bash to 4.1.007.
    *
      Upgrade istgt to 20100707.
    *
      Upgrade msmtp to 1.4.20.
    *
      Upgrade nano to 2.2.4.
    *
      Upgrade gzip to 1.4.
    *
      Upgrade tftp-hpa to 5.0.
    *
      Introduce iSCSI boot/install feature (isboot 0.1.3).
    *
      Upgrade 3ware driver to 9.5.3.
    *
      Upgrade proftpd to 1.3.3b.
    *
      Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.28.

Minors changes:

    *
      Add Czech and Slovak translations.
    *
      Add multiple CPUs usage.
    *
      Add AIO WebGUI for CIFS/SMB service.
    *
      Remove /var/tmp symbolic link.
    *
      Support Advanced Format 4KB sector. (UFS/GPT data partition only)
    *
      Set fsck enable by default at Disks|Mount Point|Add.
    *
      Set kern.geom.debugflags when formating.
    *
      Modify Tuning values.
    *
      Add ability to disable File Manager.
    *
      Make three backups of configuration when writing new one.
    *
      Add amdtemp module. (FR 2992462)
    *
      Add ability to probe on-die digital thermal sensor.
    *
      Enable disk quotas of kernel option.
    *
      Remove a useless partition.
    *
      Add ability to mount 'a' partition on MBR/UFS.
    *
      Add variables to change upload directory of lighttpd.
    *
      Disable fsck on MBR/UFS mount point due to 4KB alignment. You need

re-enable it after upgrading.

    *
      Add wireless firmware modules.
    *
      Add logical block length for iSCSI target.
    *
      Add ability to disable/enable for iSCSI target.
    *
      Add unused extents to the list in iSCSI target edit mode.
    *
      Add kernel module directory (/boot/modules).
    *
      Set Large read/write by default (Services|CIFS/SMB|Settings).
    *
      Add crypto accelerator driver (hifn, safe, ubsec).
    *
      Move upload directory to /var/tmp/ftmp from /ftmp.
    *
      Change iSCSI initial parameter.
    *
      Add new parameter of istgt 20100522.
    *
      Add minimum set of zfskerntune feature.
    *
      Add Hyper-V reboot issue patch.
    *
      Add ZFS pool with 4KB sector support.
    *
      Add ZFS cache and log device support.
    *
      Improve parameters for Samba 3.5.x.
    *
      Improve Active Directory support.

Bug fixes:

    *
      Fix wrong validation when WINS is enabled.
    *
      Fix missing /var/tmp in full installation.
    *
      Fix upload fail when firmware upgrade.
    *
      Fix AIO checkbox is not disabled if samba is disabled.
    *
      Fix fail to update index.php if some value is undefined.
    *
      Fix control of Ctrl+Alt+Del if console menu is disabled (BR 2976816).
    *
      Fix the document link on Services|Rsync|Server|Settings (BR 2997828).
    *
      Fix fail to connect SSH if ActiveDirectory is enabled (BR 2821715, 2898371).
    *
      Fix UPS support for Megatec USB UPSs fails (BR 3079159).

Permanent restrictions:

    *
      It is not possible to format a SoftRAID disk with MSDOS FAT16/32.
    *
      It is not possible to encrypt a disk partition, only complete disks are supported.
    *
      Enable 'polling' on interfaces used by a LAGG interface will make it inoperable.

Known bugs:

    *
      If DHCP for IPv4 is used, the IPv6 statically configured DNS server will be

overriden by the IPv4 DNS server.

NEED TESTING:

    *
      IPv6: auto mode
    *
      All services using IPv6 address (NFS, FTP, etc…)
    *
      Netatalk VFS Samba module (automatically enabled when Netatalk starts) crashes

samba when accessing to share

    *
      Need to write an online-test procedure

Help needed:

    *
      Need help for adding LDAP authentication feature:

Main services can be easily authenticated using PAM-LDAP, but is harder for Samba.


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Release Notes for FreeNAS 8.0 Release Candidate 2
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Release Candidate 2 contains fixes for issues that were encountered in RC1.  It
does not contain the list of new functionality that was scheduled for RC2, but
it contains enough fixes that it was a significant improvement over RC1.

FreeNAS 8 should be installed to a USB stick or Compact Flash device.  It
requires a device of at least 1 GB in size.  In a departure from FreeNAS 0.7
releases, the OS drive can not be used as a component for a volume, nor can
it be partitioned for sharing.

New in this RC:

GUI Firmware upgrades are supported, but do to a bug in the interaction between
FreeBSD, lighttpd, and python they work intermittantly.  There is a work-around
which wasn't implemented in time for RC2.  The procedure involves running
commands from the CLI shell.

# mount -uw /
# echo 'server.network-backend = "writev"' >> \
    /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
# mount -r /
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lighttpd restart

The upgrade procedure takes advantage of nanobsd by writing the OS to the
"inactive" slice.  If you are running off slice 1 the firmawre will be written
to slice 2, and vice versa.  The boot label is automatically updated, but
during the initial boot the slice can be choosen manually, allowing for an
easy reversal of an undesirable upgrade.

To use the GUI upgrade feature, first configure a storage volume.  This is
used for temporary storage space of the image.  The temporary location is
selected from system -> settings -> temporary directory.  Once that is
configured, select the Firmware Update tab.  Browse to the firmware on your
machine and choose it.  Currently there are two firmwares available:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8/FreeNAS-8.0-RC2-i386.xz/download SHA256 ff31a6e69244d264e1f5e2a395e36aa308256ebfce708112ae22adbd2de2e083
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8/FreeNAS-8.0-RC2-amd64.xz/download SHA256 29a131e11e4df9ae1a15d45bbd157ca672acc707d3eb98ae71a56ba175e1093d
Enter the correct SHA256 hash, and upload the firmware.  It will report success
on completion, go ahead and reboot the FreeNAS box at that point and it will
boot off the new firmware.

Upgrading via the install iso is still supported, simply boot off the new ISO
and select your boot device from the menu.  If you are upgrading from a
snapshot older than RC1 this is the only supported upgrade method.

The bugs in the FTP configuration are sorted out.  The GUI will now
generate valid configurations or refuse to save invalid values with an
appropriate error message.

The system now will send email about LSI RAID controller events if the email
service is properly configured.

Configuration bugs in the AFP service have been squashed, although there are
still mixed reports concerning AFP.

Errata:

Volumes created with previous snapshots, betas, or builds from the sourceforge
repo contained a bug in their GPT labeling scheme.  This labelling can result
in reduced performance when the underlying device is a hardware RAID 5 or 6
array. It is recommended that if the underlying storage device is a hardware
RAID controller using RAID 5/6/50/60 that volumes be deleted and recreated.

The iSCSI service can generate broken configs for some scenarios.  These will
get fixed as feedback is received, as the number of initiators and their various
configurations creates a large matrix of possibilities.  The initiators that are
fairly well tested are the MS Software initiator, the VMware ESXi 4.x initiator,
and the FreeBSD initiator.

Link Aggregations, also know as LACP/LAGG/interface bonding, require a reboot
to take effect.  This is not enforced by the GUI or by the CLI.  Furthermore
there is no way to create a Link Aggregation from the CLI, so the initial setup
is at best non-intuitive.  From the CLI you can configure a physical interface
so that the web GUI can be accessed, then from the web GUI a Link Aggregation
can be created, then the physical interface can be deleted, the box rebooted,
and then from the CLI the link aggregation can be selected for configuration.
Once it is configured the box should be rebooted a final time.

Replacing failed drives in arrays isn't possible through the GUI, and due
to the drives being GPT labeled replacing them via the CLI isn't easy either,
nor is the replacement procedure documented at this moment.  While the
documentation will be available very shortly, the real solution will be via
the GUI.

The GUI is still HTTP only.  That will be rectified shortly, but for the
moment accessing the GUI over a hostile network (such as the internet) is
not a good idea.

Some Mac users are reporting substandard CIFS write speeds.  The exact
conditions for this are unknown.

UPGRADES FROM FREENAS 0.7x ARE STILL UNSUPPORTED

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.  Attempting to upgrade from 0.7 will result in the
loss of your configuration, your data, or quite likely, both.

IMPORTING EXISTING STORAGE VOLUMES IS UNSUPPORTED

We will get that working very shortly, for now, don't feed disks with data
you care about to FreeNAS 8

Usability of this Release Candidate:

At this point the feature set of FreeNAS 8 is complete enough to perform file
sharing tasks via NFS or Samba, using local users, AD, or LDAP, as well as
allowing the system to operate as an iSCSI target.  The base technology of
FreeBSD, ZFS, Samba, and NFS is very stable and very well tested.  While there
isn't an upgrade path from other storage solutions, including previous FreeNAS
0.7 releases, the system is suitable for new deployments provided the
featureset is a good match for the requirements.

A note about versions:

There's been a huge jump in version numbers.  The intention is to have the
version number reflect the base version of FreeBSD used.  This RC is based
on FreeBSD 8.2, but this version of FreeNAS is called 8.0 as there are future
plans to add functionality that will get the versions caught up.  Once
FreeNAS 8.2 is out, a suffix will be added, such as 8.2.1, 8.2.2, etc.

A note about filesystem technologies:

While this system does support UFS based volumes, such as gmirror, gstripe,
graid3, the primary focus is on ZFS.  Many of the features are provided via
ZFS datasets, such as the ability to share subsets of volumes via CIFS.
This delta is likely to increase over time, the compelling reasons to use
ZFS are likely to increase as well.  It is highly recommended to use ZFS
for new volumes, even if the underlying device is a volume exported by a
hardware RAID controller.
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Die freie Storage-Lösung FreeNAS ist in der Version 8 veröffentlicht worden. FreeNAS basiert auf FreeBSD, ist einfach zu konfigurieren und unterstützt viele gängige Netzwerkdateisysteme für Linux, Mac OS X und Windows.

In FreeNAS 8 haben die Entwickler mehrere Optimierungen vorgenommen. So kann die Speicherlösung nicht nur Dateien via NFS, CIFS, AFP, FTP und TFTP im Netzwerk mehreren Rechnern bereitstellen, sondern auch Geräte mittels iSCSI exportieren. Die Entwickler haben die in Django implementierte Nutzeroberfläche überarbeitet. FreeNAS 8 richtet sich vorwiegend an professionelle Anwender, so dass die Entwickler sich entschieden haben, bei der standardmäßigen Installation auf Spielereien wie iTunes/DAAP, Bit Torrent und UPnP zu verzichten. Diese Funktionalitäten sind nicht komplett abgeschafft worden, sondern können bald in Form von Erweiterungen zusätzlich installiert werden.

Es ist vorgesehen, dass Anwender FreeNAS einem USB-Stick oder anderem Flash-Speicher-Medium installieren. Die Festplatte des FreeNAS-Servers wird komplett als Datenspeicher genutzt. Anwender können auf die Dateisysteme ZFS und UFS2 zurückgreifen, wobei letzteres nicht den Funktionsumfang von ZFS bietet, beispielsweise Quotas, Schnappschüsse, Komprimierung und Replikation. FreeNAS 8 unterstützt LDAP und Active Directory, um Nutzer zu authentifizieren.

Anwender können FreeNAS über eine Weboberfläche konfigurieren oder per SSH direkt auf den Server zugreifen. Ein Upgrade von FreeNAS 0.7.* kann nicht rückgängig gemacht werden, da FreeNAS einen vorhanden ZPool bei der Installation aktualisiert. Die neuen Versionsnummern sollen sich zukünftig an den zugrundeliegenden FreeBSD-Versionen orientieren. FreeNAS 8.0 basiert bereits auf FreeBSD 8.2, die Bezeichnungen sollen mit der nächsten Veröffentlichung komplett angeglichen werden. Fast zeitgleich mit der Veröffentlichung der aktuellen Version haben die Entwickler auch die Projekt-Webseite überarbeitet.

FreeNAS 8.0 kann für 32- und 64-Bit-Architekturen von Sourceforge heruntergeladen werden. Anwender, die bereits eine auf FreeNAS basierende Speicherlösung betreiben, können sich eine Neuinstallation sparen und stattdessen Upgrade-Abbilder verwenden.

Quelle : www.pro-linux.de

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Major changes

    django has been updated to 1.3.1 to address multiple security advisories.
    istgt has been updated to 20110928
    Base system has been updated to FreeBSD 8.2-p3, which addresses http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc and http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:04.compress.asc

Changes since 8.0-RELEASE

There's too much to list here, but the high points are:

    Divorced the volume members in the database from the FreeBSD devices. This resolves an issue where FreeBSD can change devices names and the GUI doesn't pick up the updates due to the devices names being hard-wired in the database.
    Support exporting ZFS zvols (virtual devices) as device extents via iSCSI. 8.0 was only able to export physical device nodes or file based extents.
    The GUI now has an event notification system.
    The email backend has been refactored.
    Many many changes in the GUI to help it validate and sanitize inputs that are passed to the backend daemons.
    Added UPS functionality.
    Added rsync client and server functionality.
    Added the ability to schedule cron jobs in the GUI.
    Vastly improved and reworked snapshot replication.

Errata:

    CHAP doesn't work with GlobalSAN initiators on OS X.
    Upgrades from FreeNAS 0.7 aren't supported.
    The installer doesn't check the size of the install media before attempting an install. A 2 GB device is required, but the install will appear to complete successfully on smaller devices, only to fail at boot.
    The installer will let you switch from i386 to amd64 architecture and vice-versa, but some files, such as the rrd files used by the statistics graphing package are architecture dependent.

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Major changes since 8.0.1-RELEASE:

- The email subsystem was not working correctly in 8.0.1-RELEASE, which
  resulted in the system not being able to send mail, as well as disfunction
  of the alerting system in the GUI.

Changes since 8.0.1-RELEASE:

- Allow decimal numbers for a dataset quota. (r8728)
- Fix setting recursive ACLs. (r8270)
- Start proftpd after ix-ssl to use the correct SSL cert. (r8246)
- Use wildcards in cron and rsync jobs instead of listing all values. (r8214, r8211)
- Fix case in iSCSI targets to match the behavior specified by RFC 3722. (r8120)

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Die NAS-Distribution FreeNAS 8.0.3 stellt aktualisierte Versionen von Samba und Netatalk bereit. Außerdem wurde die FreeBSD-basierte Distribution entschlackt.

In FreeNAS 8.0.3 wurden die Dateiserver Samba und Netatalk aktualisiert. Samba liegt in der aktuellen Version 3.6.1 vor, während Netatalk auf Version 2.2.1 erhöht wurde. Die grafische Oberfläche informiert künftig, wenn der Beitritt zu einer Active-Directory-Domäne nicht klappt, etwa bei ungültigen Domainnamen. Ferner haben die Entwickler die zulässige Größe für das Verzeichnis /var von 74 MByte auf 160 MByte erhöht, damit Samba mit größeren Dateimengen umgehen kann. Die Entwickler räumen aber ein, dass eventuell noch weitere Anpassungen nötig sind.

Netatalk, das Daten über das Appletalk-Protokoll bereitstellt, erhält in der grafischen Oberfläche eine Schaltfläche, über die die maximale Anzahl der gleichzeitigen Verbindungen eingestellt werden kann. Ferner werden Dienste über Avahi nur dann angeboten, wenn sie auch aktiviert sind.

Seit FreeNAS 8.0 lässt sich das Medium, auf dem das System installiert ist, nicht mehr als Speicher einrichten. Das bedeutet: FreeNAS sollte auf einem externen Medium wie einem USB-Stick oder einer Speicherkarte installiert werden. Um dort mehr Platz zu schaffen, haben die Entwickler einige Funktionen und Pakete entfernt, wie etwa die Paketdatenbank und /var/db/pkg. Außerdem enthält die Log-Datei console.log künftig keine Meldungen mehr, da diese auch in messages.log eingetragen werden.

Schließlich haben die Entwickler zahlreiche Fehler behoben, darunter beim Zugriff auf NTFS-Datenträger, beim Löschen von ZFS-Partitionen mit dem Namen "zvol" sowie dem Speichern von öffentlichen SSH-Schlüsseln. Das beigelegte Backup-Programm Rsync kommt künftig mit den Access Control Lists (ACL) des Dateiservers NFSv4 klar und entfernt nicht mehr Schrägstriche in Zielpfaden.

Eine komplette Liste aller Änderungen haben die Entwickler in den Releasenotes zusammengefasst. FreeNAS 8.0.3 steht in einer 32- und 64-Bit-Version zum Download bereit.

Quelle : www.golem.de

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Release Notes:

Changes since 8.0.3-RELEASE:

Enhancements

OS/Third party

    Update ataidle from 2.6 to 2.72 based on maintainer's (brucec@FreeBSD) recommendation due to interoperabilities with 2.6 and certain chipsets.
    Fix the inadyn port so that it works on i386.

Bugfixes

Middleware

    Fix a regression for DHCP users where /etc/resolv.conf would be nulled out if DNS servers weren't specified in the GUI.

AD/CIFS

    Disable AIO by default and change the default AIO read / write size to 4kB. This was done provided feedback and the fact that the build fixes actually enabled AIO, whereas prior releases didn't enable it by default. This can cause issues with machines that don't have the resources to service AIO requests quickly enough, where previously they would be able to service requests at near line speeds, whereas after they are unable to service requests that quickly.

NFS

    Add in logic to start lockd and mountd when NFS is enabled s.t. FreeNAS doesn't need to be manually prodded to start the services, or rebooted in order for the services to become effective.

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Enhancements

GUI

    Rename 'loaders' to 'tunables' to target the FreeBSD concept under inspection (kernel tunables) (SF r10235, r10236).

Bugfixes

OS/Third party

    Remove sane caps for minimum ZFS requirements for lower spec'ed home user machines added in 8.0.4-BETA1. A better solution will be devised in 8.2.0 with automatic system tuning, similar to legacy's zfskerntune (SF r10271).

CIFS

    Correct guest parameter setting in the GUI as it's a global option, not a per-share option (SF r10296).
    Allow Guest Only parameter only makes sense when Allow Guest is specified (SF r10300).
    Validate guest setting prior to accepting POST to ensure that the value set for Guest is sane.

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