Migrating from FreeNAS to OpenMediaVault

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I would like to convert my HP Microserver NAS to OpenMediaVault.

The FreeNAS OS resides on a flash disk connected to the motherboard. I have 5 drives which have been formatted using UFS.

Is it safe to format the flash disk and install OMV or are there other things to consider?
 
I don't recall weather Linux has support for BSD filesystems - you might want to check on that. But I'm pretty sure the software raid which I imagine FreeNAS use, won't work in Linux.
 
koffiejunkie said:
I don't recall weather Linux has support for BSD filesystems - you might want to check on that. But I'm pretty sure the software raid which I imagine FreeNAS use, won't work in Linux.
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I'm not running raid but is UFS not supported by Debian?
 
Looks like it is. From man mount:

Mount options for ufs
ufstype=value
UFS is a filesystem widely used in different operating systems. The problem are differences among implementations. Fea‐
tures of some implementations are undocumented, so its hard to recognize the type of ufs automatically. That's why the
user must specify the type of ufs by mount option. Possible values are:

old Old format of ufs, this is the default, read only. (Don't forget to give the -r option.)

44bsd For filesystems created by a BSD-like system (NetBSD,FreeBSD,OpenBSD).

ufs2 Used in FreeBSD 5.x supported as read-write.

5xbsd Synonym for ufs2.

sun For filesystems created by SunOS or Solaris on Sparc.

sunx86 For filesystems created by Solaris on x86.

hp For filesystems created by HP-UX, read-only.

nextstep
For filesystems created by NeXTStep (on NeXT station) (currently read only).

nextstep-cd
For NextStep CDROMs (block_size == 2048), read-only.

openstep
For filesystems created by OpenStep (currently read only). The same filesystem type is also used by Mac OS X.
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Assuming it's FreeBSD based, it should be fine. But don't take my word for it.
 
My main motivation is for using lftp to sync a remote SFTP server.
 
What sort of hurdles am I in for upgrading? I see I can't use the upgrade path as it's not supported by my FreeNAS version 0.7.2 Sabanda (revision 8191)

I'm thinking of disconnecting all the hard-drives then installing the standard iso onto the flashdisk inserted in the mainboard.
 
Bump okay, still trying to get lftp on my freenas (8.2 now) but struggling. It fails on a number of packages when running pkg_add -r lftp. Any suggestions? Has anyone done this?
 
Sorry I haven't ever tried doing that. You were still on V7, must be a huge change going to 8.

Why do you need lftp? Is there nothing else you can use Fudzy (other than lftp)?

You can always go straight FreeBSD 9.0?

Or make your own build of FreeNAS, but with lftp included. There are users who have made FreeNAS releases on FreeBSD 9.0 instead of 8 (for ZFS v28). Others have made releases that have included extra packages. So it is possible. But it will be a bit more work than just downloading an ISO.

EDIT: Check this guy's blog, it might have info on how to make your own build.
 
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