FreeNAS 8.2 Release

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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?
 
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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.
 
CriticalConsumer said:
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.
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FreeNAS 8.2 took over the FreeNAS project in name only.

The real successor to FreeNAS 0.7 is NAS4Free.
 
Gnome said:
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.
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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.
 
ginggs said:
The real successor to FreeNAS 0.7 is NAS4Free.
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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).
 
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 :o

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.
 
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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 said:
See for that I use BitTorrent. Prefer not to expose my NAS to the interwebz! Rather do it on my workstation
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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 :D
 
Mike Smit said:
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 :D
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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...:whistle:
 
ponder said:
It's much easier to use than torrents.
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Theyre kinda the same in ease of use...

In fact, because you have to set your news servers there is an extra step with nzbs on setup.

For me, I prefer utorrent. After many suggestions here I tried nzb for a couple of weeks. Its okay I suppose but had some serious drawbacks.

Older movies and complete seasons of stuff are way easier to find & download on torrent than nzbs. Utorrent is better for getting through firewalls as well. Its fking easy to lock out news servers.

For the latest series and movies theyre about equal. Both come down at full line speeds and both are well supported. Though to get best results from nzb I found I had to use a paid for service as the IS news servers sucked balls.

However, so far as ease of use goes... theyre pretty even. If I want the latest episode of something I go here: http://thepiratebay.se/top click on the link and thats it. There is nothing complicated about it at all.
 
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My reasons for NZB over torrents:

- I get 100% line speed 100% of the time.
- Retention is over 1400 days (uploaded content are held up to 1400 days later), if a torrent were that old it is almost certain it wouldn't be seeded any more but I can still download the NZB at full speed.
- sabnzbd+ handles every situation. If a file has a zip password it'll stop downloading, if it has a sample it won't be downloaded, if it has damaged parts it will automatically download the parity files and fix it. All of this is automated.
- NZB indexes are very good when it comes to tracking "bad" files (eg. password protected or incorrectly named) and if you use a quality index like the local site or nzb matrix you almost never get these bad files.
- NNTP provider I use doesn't track downloading so it is impossible for anyone to know what I download (no take down notices, no nothing).
- Removing (eg. movie) something from USENET is nearly impossible. Read wikipedia if you want to learn why.

Reason I don't like torrents:
- Max line speed is not guaranteed, for that matter you might not even be able to download the file because it isn't seeded anymore.
- Lots of fake content added by RIAA & Co (eg. a movie isn't what it says it is)
- RIAA & Co add fake downloaders that inject bad packets into the content stream to slow it down.
- RIAA & Co send take down notices to downloaders
- Old torrents are almost never seeded and if they are, they are seeded badly.
- If something goes wrong with a torrent it is a whole manual process to clean the sh#t up.
- Samples, useless add txt info, etc. are downloaded and removing it from the torrent is a manual process
- Torrents aren't nicely renamed and added to my library. Maybe it is possible but torrent downloading is very much a manual process in my own experience.
 
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CriticalConsumer said:
You should try 8.2 very stable and works like a bomb!
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I think it's too late for me, all my servers have already been upgraded to ZFS pool v28. I might try it when they release 8.3 though.

I've had a look at the features of 8.2 and it does look like they've managed to put back everything that was in 0.7 but missing from 8.0.
 
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