So I have a FreeNAS mini. I upgraded and it did not go well. I was worked with someone from iXsystems to get things working again (they are a great company to work with). Everything was fine until the box just rebooted the other day. It came back up fine but I had enough and reverted to 9.10. The funny part was I had ask my contract should I upgrade to the 10.04 release the day before. The answer was strange, "no, I can tell you more tomorrow." Now I know why.<p>It is brave of a company to just kill something like this and say we got it wrong. Good for them. Thankfully the way FreeNAS works it was simple enough to revert.
Just in case FreeNAS people are lurking around here, all the talk about jails support does not speak to me in the slightest. Utilizing jails has been one of my #1 pain points with FreeNAS. The quality of user-supplied jails was so poor in my experience, I got out of the practice of using pre-build jails and just had to start wiring up my own.<p>The docker switcharoo in Corral had me excited and I was able to spin up my existing FreeNAS 9.x workflows very easily, but if you're going back to jails thinking that it'll solve problems, let me be at least 1 person to say -- the jails infrastructure has been abysmal for my experience, and I give a hearty thumbs-down to doubling-down on it.
On the one hand, I have to give credit to IX for realizing they made a mistake, admitting it openly, and changing course. On the other, as someone who very painfully upgraded their home/lab devices to Corral, the idea of rolling it back is a miserable experience. Also, the idea of moving forward with it was impossible considering the crippling performance issues I experienced with it.<p>I was hoping this latest release could be used as a reliable backup target in my enterprise, but now I will use this as an opportunity to look at every other possible alternative. At this point I don't trust that Freenas or IX will be here for the long haul. So, what alternatives are the rest of you considering?
I _just_ built a FreeNAS box, and was relying on Corral to let me do virtualization. The box is overbuilt for home NAS use, and the plan was to use Corral to spin up docker and/or Debian VMs to give me a more familiar base in which to spin up other useful services.<p>Now that Corral isn't happening, would it be better to just virtualize the system and then have Debian VMs as needed? I wonder if I can migrate to a virtualized system without losing the data already in the ZFS pool :/
I run several FreeNAS installations on HP MicroServers.<p>What I want is not some fancy UI but help with running FreeNAS with Apple clients. Which is currently hard to do (this is partly due to FreeNAS and partly due to Apple).<p>If it's not possible, say so. If it is possible, add a switch for Apple clients and export volumes the best way possible (also with MS Office hacks) - without the need to hack and tinker for a long time.
I ran FreeNAS for a long time and finally gave up on it and ZFS for media storage and apps. After a brief stint with OMV/snapraid/mergerfs I bought unRAID and I've been very happy. The Docker integration is second to none for a home media server.
> we decided to undergo a thorough engineering review of the product and started to look deeper into the Plan 9 filesystem code, which allows VMs to access the host’s filesystem.<p>That's interesting. Was it actually based on Plan 9?
This is a superlatively bad title editorialization.<p>How do you get "FreeNAS Corral is dead" from the original title "Important announcement regarding FreeNAS Corral" which is about moving FreeNAS Corral back into a technology preview (alpha? beta?) instead of full release. This doesn't mean it is "dead".
Good on them. It sounds to me like they hired a cowboy who did 90% of the work and then left for a shinier new project. It's hard to admit a mistake like this, I hope others follow their example. And don't trust the cowboy!