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TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) is a network attached storage (NAS) server appliance distribution based on the FreeBSD operating system

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Is FreeNAS ready for the enterprise?

I am having a bit of split in thought. I am looking at getting a NAS for my company, we need it for our VMware server. Originally the idea was to buy a NAS (a Netgear ReadyNAS) But then I got some recommendations from the community (ServerFault) to…
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Copying terabytes of hundreds of thousands of files in folder slow

I am currently running FreeNAS and using SMB 3 on windows machines to copy folders with 80000+ files that are all about 35MB each. Here is the config FreeNAS 2x40Gbps connections bonded connection SMB Share with SMB 3.1 enabled 1 Xeon 8 core with…
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On FreeNas what is the difference between the "Permission Type" and the "Share Type" setting?

On FreeNas when creating a new dataset, I am presented with an option for Share Type Later, in a different dialog, when editing permissions of the dataset, I am presented with an option for Permission Type what is the difference between the…
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zpool import: volume FAULTED with corrupted data, is it possible to save some data?

I was using Freenas 8.2 and decided to upgrade to 9.2. All seem to go well, upgraded zfs to 28 and rebooted. During next boot it seem to take forever and at some point I decided to turn off the machine. I guess this is what caused the problem. When…
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FreeBSD undo uppercase characters in username

I set up a FreeNAS box a while ago and against better judgement, used an uppercase character when creating my username. This has led to a directory called George. Now, when I later read that uppercase characters were highly discouraged, especially…
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FreeNAS ZFS Kernel Panic

I'm running FreeNAS 8 and my computer had a hard reset from a power outage and now every time I try to boot I get the following error message: Error Message: panic: zfs_replay_acl_v0:898: unsupported condition I am running ZFS with ZFS filesystem…
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OpenVPN Server hangs at "Initialization Sequence Completed"

I have been trying to get an OpenVPN server setup on FreeNAS (not the most straight forward choice, I know) and have run into a puzzling error. It seems that the server is hanging after the "Initialization Sequence Completed" message whenever I try…
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Data missing after ZFS replication on FreeNAS/TrueNAS

In order to use the new encryption method in TrueNAS 12 I copied all data from a legacy encrypted FreeNAS pool to a newly formatted pool via a replication task. After replication there seems to be almost a GiB missing on the target pool: Source pool…
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BSD - Remove non-ascii characters from all files in a directory recursively

I'm trying to migrate a bunch (300GB+) of files from a FAT32 drive to my freeNas ZFS filesystem but every command I throw at it (tar,pax,mv,cp) throws an 'invalid argument' when it encounters a non-ASCII filename - it's usually something that's been…
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Expanding a FreeNAS RAIDZ Pool

I am building a ZFS data server using FreeNAS. I have enough hard disk space (4x2TB) for a few years, but if down the road I want to expand this out can i build another 4xHD pool? Would i need separate datasets for this second volume or can i just…
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What is Best NAS solution for windows workgroup? freenas or openfiler

we have small network of 15 computer. we want to store data in nas box with raid configured so that it can be accessed by all users. it will be document, excel, pdf and database files. what is best solution use freenas - openfiler or setup ubuntu…
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FreeNAS: Renaming a zpool

Now that our server is set up, I would like to rename our zpools. I read somewhere that the way to do this is export & re-import under the new name. But will all my mount points and shares remain intact? Or will I have to set those up again?
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grow/shrink a zfs RAIDZ

I'm going to build a freenas server, would like to make sure what I can do with such magical and advanced zfs. If I have 5 * 3TB disks in RAIDZ (12TB storage in total), now I am trying to add another 2 * 3TB disks to this existing array. Q: Am I…
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Is FreeNAS 8 ready for production? or Any sugg. for a free fileserver?

I need a free fileserver solution mixed Mac/Win environment for the small print shop I work at. We are having problems with using SMB on OS-X (file w/o extensions are getting lost and weird SMB lag with 10.6). We are currently running the Fileserver…
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FreeNAS vs OpenIndiana in terms of speed, driver availability, robustness?

This question related to NexentaStor vs FreeNAS and Is FreeNAS reliable? I have been using OpenIndiana / Illumos as the OS for my self build NAS. There is nothing much to it: Created ZFS on the FiberChannel devices Setup the local network Enabled…
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