Download FreeNAS 0.684 beta

A few days ago, version 0.684 beta of FreeNAS was released. With this package, a computer in the network can be used purely for data storage, in good English called Network Attached Storage. The whole is based on a stripped-down FreeBSD installation and provided with a clear web interface. It has on-board support for CIFS (Samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, local user authentication and Software RAID 0, 1 and 5. FreeNAS is small and can easily fit on a Compact Flash, the hard disk or a USB stick are installed. The changelog of this version shows the following changes:

Major changes in this release:

• Add disk encryption with geli
• Add iSCSI-Target: Permit to create specials files that simulate iSCSI target disk
• Add swap feature: Permit to create a file on a mount point for memory swap purpose
• Add powerd/cpufreq system power control utility
• NTFS: Replace ntfs FreeBSD module with ntfs-3g: read/write support for NTFS
• Added growfs tools (usable from the CLI only)
• Add EXT2 file system creation support
• Add option for upgrading FreeNAS from CDROM (this can be used as recovery mode too)
• Multilanguage: Update languages ​​files and add Japanese (Thanks to Hiroyuki Seino) and Russian (Thanks Ahmetov Shamil)
• Force only one UFS type: EFI GPT Partition with Softupdates, and permit to select percent of free disk space to kept (between 8 and 1)

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