TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) is a network attached storage (NAS) server appliance distribution based on the FreeBSD operating system
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Multi-node OpenStack with iSCSI storage
I’m trying to deploy a multi-node OpenStack environment using Kolla, Ansible, and Ubuntu server. I successfully added a partition to my Cinder storage using iSCSI. But I can't configure OpenStack to use this partition for VM provisioning. Why?

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Does the default zabbix SNMP trueNAS template catch disk failures?
I understand this might be a very basic question, but I would like to know the answer to this question before accidentally losing all the data on the NAS due to multiple drive failures with the first going unnoticed because the pool is technically…

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Will disk compression impact the performance of a MySQL database?
I've recently setup a TrueNAS storage server and hosted on it is a MySQL database. It's about 3GB; I'm not too concerned with how much space it's utilising.
By default, TrueNAS enables LZ4 compression on the ZFS filesystem. There's nothing else on…

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ZFS checksum error: how to recover from a replica?
ZFS can automatically repair checksum errors if the drive with the error is part of a pool set up with redundancy.
What about the case when the checksum error is on a pool without redundancy, but there is a replicated snapshot elsewhere? Can the…

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VMware vSphere 7.0 U3 + TrueNAS Core 13.0: can't create VMFS6 datastore from TrueNAS iSCSI disk. Why?
I have a bare metal server running vSphere/ESXi 7.0 U3d, and a bare metal NAS running TrueNAS Core 13.0. The NAS has a single pool shared via iSCSI; the pool is running all defaults (lz4 compression+SHA512, no dedup, 128kb record size). For setup…

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FreeNAS unable to resolve hostnames, ping of any external IP returns host's ip instead
The internal IP address of my router changed, and ever since TrueNAS has been misbehaving. None of the jails can resolve a hostname anymore. In troubleshooting this, I discovered that the client cannot ping any external IP address without the…

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How to export shares so that users don't create file as root
I am trying to export home directories from my NAS to ubuntu clients - the server is a TrueNAS Scale, which is Debian based.
Kerberos works, so users get the proper tickets to authenticate to the server.
My main goal is that users can mount their…

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Are Samsung B-Die and C-Die Compatible?
I am building a NAS (running TrueNAS/FreeNAS) using a SuperMicro A2SDi-8C+-HLN4F motherboard. I ordered 2 sticks of this Samsung C-Die RAM from a supplier but they could only send me 1 as it was the last they had in stock. I ordered the same RAM…

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Why is chmod returning 'no file or directory' while the file exists?
When setting up sonarr in truenas I get the error above.
iocage exec radarr mkdir /usr/local/etc/rc.d
nano /usr/local/etc/rc.d/radarr
then I fill in the script I need to fill in, I save.
Then I try this command
iocage exec radarr chmod u+x…

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Samba share available space is smaller than zfs poll size
I have a FreeNas server with zfs pool. Configuration: 6 x 2TB disks in RAIDZ2. 15.5 TB raw space of disks.
# zpool list -v
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
freenas-boot …

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I have two mirrored 12 TB drives in my 4-bay FreeNAS. Can I add another mirror and stripe both?
I have one 12 TB mirror (2*12 TB) in my 4-bay FreeNAS.
The pool is full, how would I expand the capacity?
Can I add another mirror and stripe both to get 24 TB of total storage? (or would that erase my existing data?)

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How to Install (nic) drivers on TrueNAS
How can one update a network card driver on TrueNAS 12.0?
My nic is on the motherboard directly it's a Intel Motherboard DH55HC, the NIC is 82578DC gigabit enabled.
I've found the driver directly at Intel's site for FreeBSD;…

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How can I monitor the reliability of connections to network shares?
I can use any of Windows Pro or Server Standard, or CentOS to do this monitoring (I guess). It seems there are some complex issues going on with AWS Deadline jobs which I don't expect anyone to know about. The jobs fail a lot.
The smoking gun (I…

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Nextcloud in a FreeNAS jail served by NGINX behind a reverse proxy by IIS
My environment
Windows 10 pro host pc at IP 192.168.2.11
FreeNAS running in VMWare Workstation on host pc at IP 192.168.2.13
Nextcloud instance in a FreeNAS jail at IP 192.168.2.37 (installed by following these instructions and removing the…

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How can we use LDAP to authenticate SMB share in FreeNAS?
SMB service has been enabled, I can share using freeNAS created users to authenticate SMB share. But how can we use LDAP to authenticate SMB shares? Current LDAP configuration in running on different server.

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