FreeNAS Beta 0.684b Released
DCoT’s favorite free…uh…NAS, FreeNAS, has released a new beta version - 0.684b. Here is what the website has to say about it:
Notes:
If you found this post useful, why don't you buy me a cup of coffee to show your gratitude?Here is the 0.684b.Lot’s of changes: Disk encryptions, iSCSI-target, swap, etc.. (check the change log for all details).
Important notice: The ‘lnc’ network card driver is replaced by ‘le’ driver. If you are using ‘lnc’ as interface LAN, plug a keyboard/monitor on your screen before upgrading FreeNAS.
LDAP doesn’t works: If you known how to configure LDAP client for authenticate all services, your help is welcome
MD5 Checksum:
FreeNAS-0.684b.iso = be63bd55c36201e0e73425ffcc05659d
FreeNAS-generic-pc-0.684b.img = 192475269c0ca6ef84bcfa6a8103e154Changes:
Majors changes:
- Add disk encryption with geli
- Add iSCSI-Target: Permit to create specials files that simulate iSCSI target disk.
- Add swap feature: Permit to create a file on a mount point for memory swap purpose
- Add powerd/cpufreq system power control utility
- NTFS: Replace ntfs FreeBSD module with ntfs-3g: read/write support for NTFS
- Added growfs tools (usable from the CLI only)
- Add EXT2 filesystem creation support
- Add option for upgrading FreeNAS from CDROM (this can be used as recovery mode too).
- Multilanguage: Update languages files and add Japanese (Thanks to Hiroyuki Seino) and Russian (Thanks Ahmetov Shamil)
- 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)Minors changes:
- RSYNC: Permit to configure multiple RSYNC local/client
- RSYNC: Add description attribute to RSYNC tasks
- SSH: Permit to enable SSH TCP forwarding (SSH tunneling)
- NFS: Permit to add more than one networks for NFS
- iSCSI: Upgrade iSCSI initiator to 2.0.1
- FTP: Add ‘Resume’ mode. Fix bug in enabling ‘FXP’ and ‘NAT mode’.
- FTP: Add ‘connected users list’ information page
- Samba: Try to improve samba performance by adding ‘large readwrite = no’ in smb.conf
(see http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Troubleshooting)
- Samba: Add dos charset CP866 (Russian)
- Little index page improvement : % used of TOTAL size display. Paul Wheels patch
- Permit to configure the system time: Paul Wheels patch
- Add hardware sensors information page
- Add syslog message for RSYNC local/remote synchronization
- Geom mirror: Change default algorithm to round robin
(http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html)
- Now it is possible to store the configuration on floppy disk and USB stick when booting FreeNAS from CD.
- Permit to select if a user is in the administrator group (wheel) or not
- Add WebGUI page (System/Advanced/Startup) to add/edit/delete commands executed pre or post system initialization (booting).Bug fixs:
- Fix UPnP WebGUI bug
- Fix bug in user & groups WebGUI.
- FTP: Fixed: Deletion of files uploaded and owned by user was not able.
- FTP: Fixed PAM error (using MS AD account for example)
- FTP: Disable root login by default. Can be enabled via WebGUI.
- Fix DHCP problem
- Try to prevent “acd0: FAILURE READ_BIG ERROR” during install from CDROM (thanks to fortinde@isers.sourceforge.net)
- Modify FreeNAS make.sh build script for supporting AMD64 FreeBSD now…Underlying changes:
- Use the FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (production) for FreeNAS base
- Upgrade twa kernel driver (e.g. 3ware 9650SE Series Raid S-ATA II PCIe)
- Try to improve performance on VM machine: http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/vmware.html
Replace ethernet ‘lnc’ drivers with ‘le’ driver (WARNING: NEED CONFIGURATION CHANGE AFTER UPGRADE)
Reduce Kernel’s timer frequency to 100HZ
- Samba: Upgrade Samba to 3.0.24
- Remove the tools ‘beep’
- Upgrade PHP to 5.2.1
- Upgrade ushare to 0.9.10 (should now support xbox)Known bug in the 0.684b:
- Using iSCSI-target can cause problem for stopping/restarting FreeNAS
- French character not correclty displayed
- When pressing Ctrl+halt+del key, the rc.shutdown script generate an error
