I've been using FreeNAS 9.10 for just under a year now having originally moved from Ubuntu Server. Its feature set, ease of use and stability really is incredible. Can't wait to try Corral out.
I'm excited to see FreeNAS "Corral" come out and the user interface looks great, however I'm still disappointed that jails are not able to be used.<p>I'm not sad to see the plugins system gone, it was terrible and I always set up my own custom jails on FreeNAS anyway, but It would have been nice to be able to use jails at least from the command line. I guess they don't want to have to worry about supporting both.<p>I just wonder about the extra overhead of having to run a virtual machine for every container as opposed to just running a FreeBSD jail. bhyve is also not as established as FreeBSD jails and I wonder about stability. Now you're having to worry about the stability of bhyve and docker. For just running services like emby, syncthing, SABnzbd or the like I honestly think having the option to just run a FreeBSD jail is superior. Considering it is FreeBSD under the hood I don't see why the option is gone.<p>It's nice to be able to run Docker containers don't get me wrong, but I just wonder if it is really the superior technology.
FreeNAS is awesome.<p>Does anyone know of a way to configure FreeNAS (or an alternative FS, such LizardFS or Tahoe LAFS) that can provide the feature set of Isilon OneFS (not the performance) with an open source implementation?<p>That is,<p>1. to add more storage, just add another machine (everything looks like one big volume, irrespective of machine/disk boundaries).<p>2. replication / error correction / raid works across the entire fleet of machines; that is, you can configure it so that up to 1-disk per node, and up to 2-nodes overall can die without damage to data<p>3. snapshots
What is the status of ipfs integration? I know it was part of the v10 roadmap, but I don't see any mention of it in Corral and have been unable to figure out if it features in the Corral roadmap. Corral looks like it would be a great UX for farming disk space for ipfs/filecoin in the future. Thanks.
Is it possible to run Windows 10 as guest in Bhyve? I was planning to build my workstation on Ubuntu as host OS. Running few VMs inside - two windows, two linux and managing my ZFS pool (host os directly)... but if FreeNAS can run Windows VMs, it would be ideal...
Does this version still require a tiny slice of every data-storage drive be used as swap?<p>I've got hardware built up but am still debating NAS4FREE vs FreeNAS.
For any future readers / searchers, it looks like the link was changed [0].<p>[0] <a href="http://www.freenas.org/blog/introducing-freenas-corral-an-open-source-hyper-converged-storage-platform/" rel="nofollow">http://www.freenas.org/blog/introducing-freenas-corral-an-op...</a>
According to the release notes, you can update to Corral and roll back to 9.10 via the GUI.<p>The system requirements are still 8gb RAM and 8gb disk minimum.<p>There are no details of the performance.<p>Release notes are here.<p><a href="https://download.freenas.org/Corral/RELEASE/ReleaseNotes.txt" rel="nofollow">https://download.freenas.org/Corral/RELEASE/ReleaseNotes.txt</a>