Download FreeNAS 0.69b2

The second beta release of Freenas version 0.69 was released on Thursday. With this package, a computer in the network can be used purely for data storage. The whole is based on M0n0wall, a stripped-down Freebsd installation and is equipped with a clear web interface. Among other things, it has on-board support for Cifs(Samba), ftp, nfs, Rsync, ssh, local user authentication and software raid 0, 1 and 5. Installed, Freenas takes up no more than 32MB of space and can therefore be used with ease. a compact flash, the hard disk or a USB stick. The changelog for this release shows the following changes:

Major changes:

• Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.0, fusefs-ntfs/ntfs-3g to 1.2531, Samba to 3.0.30, rsync to 3.0.3.
• Add ‘perms’ and ‘xattrs’ parameter to RSYNC client/local shares (FR 2009300).
• Allow user to add additional parameters to RSYNC client/local shares.
• Modified Web GUI look & feel.
• Add torrent client (No WebGUI, only console support).
• Disable splash screen because it causes reboots on some systems.
• Keep time zone informations up to date (BR 2034132).

Minor changes:

• Enable WLAN interface setup via console.
• Add ‘Loewe Connect’ UPnP support (FR 2003278).
• Modity iSCSI Target WebGUI. This will hopefully reduce ‘Extent’ configuration problems.
• Disallow adding duplicate named CIFS/SMB and AFP shares. Thanks to Falk Menzel.
• Rename environment variable used by /etc/rc.d/rsync_client and rsync_local scripts to rsync_client_logfile and rsync_local_logfile.
• If ‘Recycle bin’ has been enabled for a CIFS/SMB share the ‘.recycle’ directory will be created with 0777 permissions. A subdir will be created for each user with 0700 permissions.
• Add ‘mount_smbfs’ command. HowTo.

bug fixes:

• Fix bug in WebGUI interfaces. Thanks to freenas_fan for this tip.
• Support large MSDOS file systems (use mount option ‘large’) (BR 2001483). Thanks to gusthave.
• iSCSI Target lets you create a target with no storage (BR 2011723). Thanks to Super Juice.
• Fix bug in /etc/rc.d/hosts script. Thanks to Lars Köller for reporting the problem.

Permanent restrictions:

• It is not possible to format a SoftRAID disk with MSDOS FAT16/32.
• It is not possible to encrypt a disk partition, only complete disks are supported.
• It is not possible to get separate CPU stats per processor on SMP machines because FreeBSD does not support that feature.

known bugs:

• If DHCP for IPv4 is used, the IPv6 statically configured DNS server will be override by the IPv4 DNS server.

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