FreeNAS 8.2 Release

[CriticalConsumer]

Hi all,

I have a FreeNAS box with an Adaptec 5805 RAID card with 6x 1.5TB HDD's in RAID10. I initially setup the box with FreeNAS 0.7.

I finally upgraded the box to 8.2 last night and I must say I am impressed in the enhancements it brings. What I am having a problem with is getting 8.2 to recognise that a DVD Writer exists and mounting the volume.
IN 0.7 you had the choice of creating the volume using CD/DVD FS...seems as if you cannot in 8.2.

The OS is installed on a hard drive.

System specs:
AMD Phenom II X4
Asus Crosshair II mobo
6GB RAM
Plextor DVD Writer

So any FreeNAS fundis out there?

[CriticalConsumer]

Hmmm nobody?

[Mike Smit]

Hmmm nobody?

Lol...

I am using 8.2b4 with 5 x 2TB drives but am no where near a fundi so unfortunately unable to offer you anything dude.

[Gnome]

Just curious, why do you want that? (CD/DVD FS)

@Mike: You running any plugins?

Running 9x2TB RAID-z1 on my NAS but I really want sabNZBd+ and sickbeard running on FreeNAS. There is a plugin, but doesn't seem completely stable atm.

[ginggs]

I initially setup the box with FreeNAS 0.7.

I finally upgraded the box to 8.2 last night and I must say I am impressed in the enhancements it brings.

FreeNAS 8.2 took over the FreeNAS project in name only.

The real successor to FreeNAS 0.7 is NAS4Free.

[Mike Smit]

Just curious, why do you want that? (CD/DVD FS)

@Mike: You running any plugins?

Running 9x2TB RAID-z1 on my NAS but I really want sabNZBd+ and sickbeard running on FreeNAS. There is a plugin, but doesn't seem completely stable atm.

Not yet Gnome. Waiting for the plugins to stabilize.
When on 7 I followed a tut and installed sabnzb, sick beard and couch potato via putty. Was a pain manually starting the services each time the server booted so stopped using them there and stuck to my windows box.
Watching 8 eagerly for the plugins to stabilize then will do it again. Will be awesome to have everything on one box.

[Gnome]

The real successor to FreeNAS 0.7 is NAS4Free.

I do think FreeNAS 8 is superior however. The developers have commercial backing (eg. they are paid to develop FreeNAS) and they also happen to have some of the FreeBSD developers on their team.

FreeNAS features make it into their pay-to-use NAS software TruNAS (or something like that). The end result is the software is pretty well polished, researched and stable (IMHO).

[CriticalConsumer]

Well I don't really need it you are correct! Got used to having it there as a way to stream DVD content but I guess I can still do that from my workstation...me just being a geek

But at the same time I am poking around 8.2 and am liking it even more everyday rather simple to use and setup.

The plugins are cool but i would rather wait until a few releases before using them for stability sake. What is sickbeard and sabNZBd+ - what do they do?

I also checked out NAS4Free... didn't really appeal to me anymore, iX Systems version is rather robust and professional.

I wonder whether the mods could create FreeNAS Sticky / Thread for us FreeNAS peeps...would be awesome to share experiences and config / plugins and the like.

[Gnome]

sabnzbd+ is an open source platform independent usenet download client. Easily the best usenet downloader around

sickbeard is also platform independent but it is more of a scheduler/PVR application. Basically you add series you like and which quality (eg. HD/TV/etc.). It'll then search for that series in an online database, show all the episodes for that series and allow you to select them as wanted. The series is then searched for on indexes (eg. nzbmatrix) and downloaded by sabNZBd+ After downloading it automatically renames the episodes correctly. It can also rename your current series collection by attempting to intelligently identify which files are which episodes.

Check the screenshots on their homepage, it'll give you a better indication.

Basically if you set them up correctly, they will download your series completely automated, move the files into the correct directories, rename them, etc. All you have to do is keep them running (eg. on your NAS).

There are other apps also, CouchPotato, it is like Sickbeard but for movies. Headphones which is for music.

Each of them rely on sabnzbd+ for the actual downloading.

Surprised you haven't heard of it, for any person who is lazy but likes to watch series it is the ultimate setup because you don't have to do anything but add the series to your list in sickbeard or your movie to your list in couchpotato and everything else is handled for you.

[CriticalConsumer]

See for that I use BitTorrent. Prefer not to expose my NAS to the interwebz! Rather do it on my workstation

[Mike Smit]

See for that I use BitTorrent. Prefer not to expose my NAS to the interwebz! Rather do it on my workstation

All those tools mentioned run on the workstation too.
I used BT for a long time and saw all this chitter chatter about NZB and kind of ignored it. 6 months or so ago I decided to give it a try and set everything up.
Needless to say, I have not touched a BT again

[ginggs]

The end result is the software is pretty well polished, researched and stable (IMHO).

Interesting, my experience with FreeNAS 8 was exactly the opposite.

[CriticalConsumer]

Interesting, my experience with FreeNAS 8 was exactly the opposite.

You should try 8.2 very stable and works like a bomb!

[CriticalConsumer]

All those tools mentioned run on the workstation too.
I used BT for a long time and saw all this chitter chatter about NZB and kind of ignored it. 6 months or so ago I decided to give it a try and set everything up.
Needless to say, I have not touched a BT again

Mind you when i have time and am totally bored I will give it a bash, then to teach the better half on how to use it...

[ponder]

Mind you when i have time and am totally bored I will give it a bash, then to teach the better half on how to use it...

It's much easier to use than torrents.