Software-update: FreeNAS 0.65

Gisteren is versie 0.65 van FreeNAS uitgebracht. Met dit pakket kan een computer in het netwerk worden gebruikt puur en alleen voor dataopslag, in goed Engels Network Attached Storage geheten. Het geheel is gebaseerd op een uitgeklede FreeBSD installatie en voorzien van een overzichtelijke webinterface. Het heeft ondersteuning aan boord voor CIFS (Samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, local user authentication en Software RAID 0, 1 en 5. FreeNAS is niet groot en kan met gemak op een Compact Flash, de harde schijf of een USB-stick worden geïnstalleerd. De release notes van deze versie laten zich als volgt weglezen:

News features:

• MS Windows Domain authentication
• Apple File Protocol (AFP)
• Announce FreeNAS services with Zeroconf (howl)
• iSCSI initator (NOT TESTED)

Warning for creating a software RAID volume (there is a bug somewhere):

• Hard drive must have the same size
• Create and format your RAID volume
• Put a small file on this volume
• Reboot the PC
• Check that the volume is correctly mounted and working.
• If not: re-format the volume,reboot and re-check.

Changes:

• Adding MS Windows Domain authentication (tested with a 2K server and 2003 server)
• New protocol: AFP (AppleShare file server)
• Adding Zeroconf (howl) for announcing services
• adding iSCSI initator (NOT TESTED)
• New Install script (use the same method as the WebGUI: dd the image file directly on the hard drive) and made a more clear code
• Gvinum (Software RAID): Use 'sd lenght 0' parameter in the place of the disk size.
• Smartd have this own log file
• Local user with 'full shell' option can became root (with su command)
• The Web Admin admin password match the root password.
• Add option for forcing UDMA mode (to be used when there is the UDMA_ERROR.... LBA error message).
• Adding a link to the exec page on the diagnostic menu.
• Adding option for formating disk in UFS without soft Updates and reserved space to 0 (save 8% of space disk).
• Mount the UFS disk with ACLS enabled
• Permit to change the user used by rsync daemon
• Adding 'aaccli' tools (usable from command line only)
• Little fixe for AFP configuration (WebGUI, mount point, etc..)
• Changing the classical syslogd by a patched circular log syslogd (adapted to FreeBSD by the pfsense project)....
• Improved rsync client code: thanks to Mat Murdock and Bmutz
• Add top information on the status page: thanks to Stefan Hendricks
• Adding changing MTU size...
• Add option for enabling/disabling tuning kernel variables
• changing Samba mask for file/directory:
  • If 'anonymous' mode: use 0666 for file and 0777 for directory
  • If 'user' mode: use 0744 for file and 0755 for directory
• Add FTP daemon option: min/max port and public IP address
• add drivers: ath -
• Atheros IEEE 802.11 wireless network driver (thanks to Foxglove for the lines to be added)
• add drivers: HighPoint HPT374 ATA RAID Controller
• add drivers: ipw -
• Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 driver
• add drivers: iwi -
• Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 driver
• Upgrading to samba-3.0.21c
• Upgrading rsync to 2.6.7
• Upgrading to FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #10

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