Category Archives: FreeNAS

BSDTalk interview with Josh Paetzel (iXsystems)

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Gerard

BSDTalk has a 12 minute interview with Josh Paetzel, IT director at iXsystems. Will and Josh talk about the recent takeover of the FreeNAS project by iXsystems. FreeNAS will stay FreeBSD-based, with the ZFS file system and the project will … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS ready for the next step – Future of FreeNAS

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Gerard

Olivier Cochard-Labbé, the original founder of the FreeNAS Project, has indicated that FreeNAS is in need of some big modification to remove some of its current  limitations (one of the biggest is the non support of easly users add-ons). This will probably … Continue reading →

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Released: FreeNAS 0.7 (Khasadar)

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Gerard

FreeNAS 0.7  (Khasadar) has been released. Volker announced: Today i’m proud to announce the release of FreeNAS 0.7. I want to say thanks to all contributors for their help. Please see below the changes done in this version. You can download the … Continue reading →

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Two Security Alerts for FreeNAS

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Gerard

The Learn FreeNAS blog reported about two recently found security flaws in FreeNAS, which will only affect those connected to the internet. Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in FreeNAS before 0.69.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML … Continue reading →

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10 great things about FreeNAS

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Gerard

Learn FreeNAS has a post with the top10 reasons why FreeNAS should be considered when setting up Network Attached Storage: It works It is free Low system requirements Supports Windows, Mac, Linux and FreeBSD RSYNC iSCSI Media Streaming RAID ZFS … Continue reading →

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ANNOUNCEMENT: BSD Router Project (bsdrp)

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Gerard

Olivier Cochard-Labbé, an IP routing expert and founder of FreeNAS (a FreeBSD based Network-Attached-Storage system), has released the first alpha (0.1) image of his new project: BSD Router Project - http://bsdrp.net bsdrp is an open source customised distribution of FreeBSD dedicated to offering IP routing services … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 0.7RC1 (Sardaukar) released

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Gerard

Volker Theile has announced the availability of FreeNAS 0.7 RC1. This release candidate can be downloaded from here. Majors changes: Upgrade to FreeBSD 7.2. Include ZFS support. Upgrade iSCSI initiator to 2.1.1. Replace iSCSI target by istgt. Thanks to Daisuke … Continue reading →

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Creating a Network Attached Storage VMware using FreeNAS

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Gerard

This Tutorial will give you a run down on how to create a VMware using FreeNAS. The tutorial comes with screenshots and covers installation of FreeNAS, setting up an iSCSI target and connecting to it from Windows.

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