@matteo-nunziati said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment: @saniplastic said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment: @DustinB3403 said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment: metadata metadata? please explain more. The config files where the vm is defined. Do not backup the vm disk only. I suppose he referes to this. I backup with veeam. whole vm files.

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Traditionally TrueOS has been a good desktop.

I would check if there are any DNS errors trying to get the Repos or sites then look at this: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/issues/996 More recently on this: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225104

@black3dynamite said in GhostBSD 11.1 Released with MATE and Xfce: @scottalanmiller said in GhostBSD 11.1 Released with MATE and Xfce: My Xfce download is underway. What's GhostBSD default desktop environment? MATE and Xfce. Those are the only two that they make.

Wow, major changes since I last tested it! https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases

Factory Reset, Setup, Disable Hardware Checksum Offloading, Works Prefect.

@scottalanmiller said in FreeNAS Gets Hit by the Jurassic Park Effect: HCL Yes, agreed!

@scottalanmiller said in Freenas 9.2.18 server , CIFS services unable to start: @Ghani said in Freenas 9.2.18 server , CIFS services unable to start: Yes i agree your sounds If the only goal is an open source file server (we call this a SAM-SD, there is a section of the forum just for that) then the most likely recommendations for an OS will be openSuse Tumbleweed or Fedora. CentOS and Ubuntu are fine choices too. FreeBSD is excellent, but less well known. You make it sound as though the wise choice here would be to install OpenSuse etc direct to the hardware.

@Ghani said in Extend ZFS zpool Volume Size Without Any Data Loss: @scottalanmiller yes rsync not a backup solutions So in a "read back" mode, this tells us that the data stored here isn't important so there isn't really anything to worry about. If you do the expansion and it causes data loss, they can't be upset as they don't see value in the data. This also tells us that the servers shouldn't be there, because if they aren't backed up and they aren't a caching system then you shouldn't have them at all. So there is clearly something wrong.

FreeBSD does have getent.

@Reid-Cooper said in Open source Firewall: pfSense was really good in the past. But I agree, the days of building your own firewall on an old PC that you have are over. Right - the cost just isn't worth running your old PC. Power alone will cost more than the cost of an ER-X or ER-L.

@scottalanmiller said in UNIX: Switching Users with su: @Grey said in UNIX: Switching Users with su: Pop quiz: why do you need the dash with su? That was in the original article. And I quoted you without quoting you..... see what I did there, I switched a few words

@DustinB3403 said in FreeNAS Domain Failure on AD: @scottalanmiller any news yet? Nope

@tjatwood109 said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID: @scottalanmiller Thanks - I will proceed without using ZFS - I prefer hardware RAID. Tim ZFS is perfectly fine with hardware RAID, if you like ZFS' features otherwise (like zsend is nice) then there's no reason to avoid it. If you don't plan to use any unique features, then XFS is my "go to" choice by default. Very fast, very stable.

It was amazing that Scott found it so fast. I was on the Windows side of things. Inside Windows they were using the iSCSI initiator to connect to the FreeNAS. All the sudden Windows would just log a ton of iSCSI events and go down. I looked up the events and most people resolved them by putting the iSCSI traffic on a separate NIC. This happened two days in a row at about the same time each day. I was looking at snapshot, backup, etc times when Scott found it in the FreeNAS logs.

@dafyre said in Can You Install FreeNAS to a Single RAID 6 RAIDZ2 Array: Who are you and what have you done with @scottalanmiller ... Actually using FreeNAS for something? I was just about to say the same thing. Or maybe his account was hacked.

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@marcinozga Thanks, but already tried net.inet.ip.fastforwarding in all combinations with TCP and UDP.

@BBigford said in Installing FreeNAS 9.3 on Scale HC3: When you say "in a business capacity"... Do you mean any business or just certain sizes? What is the reasoning? I know you think the FreeNAS community can be very brash/vile at times based on some of your earlier posts to people asking about FN. http://www.smbitjournal.com/2015/07/the-jurassic-park-effect/ Basically you are getting a highly stateful system where support is critical but in a crippled manner compared to just using FreeBSD. You are getting something easy to set up but difficult to support. If anything goes wrong you are in very tough shape. And updates come a bit behind. So you have a number of small issues that all add up to a not very business friendly product.

zroot is #1 reason to love ZFS !!

Updated our slave database servers to 10.3 a couple of weeks ago... we roll out phases since we've got so many damn servers. It's always a nightmare. If no issues for the next couple of weeks or additional patches, we'll roll out to primary database servers (they're all sets of master-master, the slaves are for search primarily, but also are useful for a live test if everything passes staging, and they're a hot backup too if any issues arise) and then web servers. We never go down so it's a painfully slow process.