Download FreeNAS 0.686

A new stable version of FreeNAS was released a few days ago. With this package a computer in the network can be used purely for data storage, which is called ‘Network Attached Storage’ in good English. The whole is based on M0n0wall, a stripped-down FreeBSD installation, and is provided with a clear web interface. It has onboard 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 easily stored on a Compact Flash, the hard disk or a USB stick are installed. The changelog of version 0.686 shows the following changes:

Major changes:

• Refactor port make files.
• Upgrade netbsd-iscsi (iscsi-target) to 20071221, fusefs-ntfs to 1.1120.

Minor changes:

• Disable firmware upgrade via WebGUI for ‘full’ installations. Use the ‘full’ upgrade mode from LiveCD instead.
• Changed boot splash screen and WebGUI logo images.
• Try to fix AFP Time Machine problem.

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug in ‘full’ upgrade/install routine (LiveCD).
• Do not delete log files during boot process on ‘full’ installations.

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.

Known bugs:

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

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