FreeNAS also allows to share storage on the network using different protocols: NFS, iSCSI Apple AFP and Common Internet File System (CIFS) by Microsoft, including a complete and granular access permissions management. The underlying presence of ZFS at the basis of the system allows to use important data protection features like scheduled snapshots, protecting volumes with encryption and both remote and local replica.
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After an important revision and update by the iXsystems’ team, in May 2011 FreeNAS 8.0 was released.įreeNAS is based on the OpenZFS implementation of the Sun (then Oracle) system called ZFS, so it takes advantage of all the code base of this project to manage ZFS volumes, disks and devices.
In 2009 iXsystems (a company dealing with servers and storage solutions) showed interest in the FreeNAS project in order to avoid the migration of the system on Debian and the subsequent loss to the support for ZFS, after the then project leader. The development of FreeNAS went on with the years and reached the actual 9.3 stable version and 10 “Alpha” version (the support to the 32-bit UFS file system was abandoned in 2014). The system was conceived to require a limited use of hardware resource, apart from storage, so that it can run smoothly also on old or performance-wise limited machines. FreeNAS is a FreeBSD-based Operating System whose development began in 2005 thanks to Olivier Cochard-Labbè and whose main function is to transform the computer or server where it’s installed in a NAS (Network Attached Storage).
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