Verleden week is er een bètarelease van versie 8.0 van FreeNAS uitgebracht. Met dit pakket kan een in het netwerk opgenomen computer als network attached storage-machine worden ingezet, dus puur en alleen voor het opslaan van data. Het geheel is gebaseerd op FreeBSD versie 8.1 en voorzien van een overzichtelijke webinterface. De systeemeisen zijn laag. Zo is 128MB ruimte nodig voor een installatie en is 256MB geheugen al voldoende om het te laten draaien. FreeNAS heeft ondersteuning voor een groot aantal netwerkprotocollen en kan eventueel ook worden ingezet als UPnP-, web- en iTunes-server of om BitTorrent-bestanden mee te downloaden. De aanknodiging van deze bèta ziet er als volgt uit:
iXsystems Releases FreeNAS 8 Beta
FreeNAS--an Open Source Storage Platform based on FreeBSD--supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. Both home and business users can share media across an entire network. Other features include FTP, data replication, iSCSI, and support for Apple's Time Machine. The current FreeNAS Beta release is now available for testing and can be downloaded here. The project welcomes community feedback to improve the product for final release.
FreeNAS can be installed and configured with ease using its new web interface. Users can store, access, and manage data because the data resides on the user's private network. iXsystems has replaced the existing FreeNAS interface (based on m0n0wall) with the Python Django framework, whose modular nature easily integrates third-party software within the FreeNAS interface. Ajax technology provided by the Dojo toolkit enhances the user experience by providing real-time feedback.
FreeNAS 8 Beta includes ZFS, which supports high storage capacities and integrates file systems and volume management into a single piece of software. One benefit of ZFS is System Snapshots, in which numerous snapshots of data are taken and used to restore lost or deleted files. Future versions of FreeNAS will include other ZFS benefits such as De-Duplication, which conserves disk space by sending a pointer to the location of the original file for any replicated data.
The base of the system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. Asynchronous IO has been enabled in Samba 3.5 to increase performance over previous versions. FreeNAS now uses FreeBSD's rc.d configuration and stores all system states in a sqlite3 database. The build process takes advantage of NanoBSD, a trimmed down version of FreeBSD with added enhancements. In previous versions, FreeNAS used many non-standard components that inhibited updates to FreeBSD. The rewrite ensures that FreeNAS can quickly and easily stay up to date with FreeBSD.
FreeNAS 8 screenshot, klik op de afbeelding voor een grotere versie.
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