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  • AT first I was very confused, then I realized that this is building on TrueNAS CORE, and not TrueNAS SCALE. Makes much more sense now!
    by inventor7777
  • I used TrueNAS in the past but last touched it several years ago.

    I gather now there are two flavors: CORE which continues to use FreeBSD under the hood, and SCALE (aka Community Edition) which is based on Debian Linux. If I understand correctly, the former is only receiving security and stability updates, and iXsystems is developing all new features only on SCALE.

    If you were to install fresh today, would you prefer this (FreeCORE), BSDnas, or the official SCALE version - and why?

    No MacOS clients, so don't need SMB Spotlight.

    by rkagerer
  • There's also bsdnas: https://bsdnas.com
    by mvanbaak
  • Seems that zVault 'did not make it' - https://zvault.io/ - even the page is gone now.

    Lets hope FreeCORE will make it longer.

    Some comparison between Linux based TrueNAS SCALE and FreeBSD based TrueNAS CORE here:

    - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/truenas-core-versu...

    Regards,

    vermaden

    by vermaden
  • Why does anyone bother with these ephemeral meme distros when you can accomplish the same with vanilla FreeBSD/Illumos/Linux using standard commands and documentation?

    If you need your hand held to file share, that's why Windows Server still exists and is the gold standard for SMB.

    by gnuplustoejam
  • In ~2017 I ditched FreeNAS when my FreeNAS Mini died from the Atom C2000 hardware failure. iXSystems was great about getting me a replacement board, but I decided when I rebuilt the system to just use FreeBSD and get used to command-line only administration. That directly lead to me learning pf, jails, bhyve, etc. Yeah, I don't have any fancy web UI, but I've had a rock solid system for almost 10 years with Samba + NFS running without issue.
    by _0xdd
  • What a shame I didn't discover this sooner -- I finally sent my 11-year-old TrueNAS system[1] through the one-way Linux door about a year ago because I gave up on any hope that something like this would come along and I didn't see another way to keep it current.

    The migration path went smoothly but I preferred the FreeBSD setup if only because it forced me to do something a bit more interesting in my spare time. I do quite a lot of Linux work in my day job and it was nice to occasionally work on something that was surface-level similar but subtly and not-so-subtly different.

    [1] Over 11 years I have replaced every component (even the CPU/motherboard) at least once except for the case. Migrating from MBR to UEFI was "fun".

    by ink_13
  • Worth noting that TrueNAS recently stopped publishing their build scripts, intentionally making it harder to build their open source code.[0]

    [0] https://forums.truenas.com/t/clearing-the-air-on-build-scrip...

    by mtlynch

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