FreeNAS
Too Smart Guys have uploaded a video and some instructions on how to setup BitTorrent on FreeNAS. Incluced is ‘enabling the BitTorrent client to use a blocklists and schedules’ and ‘how to update the block list’.
You can download the video here or watch it on their site at the link below.
Related links: FreeNAS – Setting up Bittorrent
The MyLinuxRamblings blog has posted another great FreeNAS related post, this time about using Clonezilla with FreeNAS.
There are a couple of new FreeNAS posts on the MyLinuxRamblings blog. The two posts cover Installation and Configuration of FreeNAS.
Part 1 covers:
- Installing FreeNAS Server
- Configuring the Network Interface
- Logging in to you FreeNAS Server
Talderon has posted a guide on how to install Subsonic (the free, web-based media streamer) on FreeNAS 0.7.1
The combination of FreeNAS and Subsonic is perfect. Together you get ubiquitous access to your music. You can stream to multiple players simultaneously, for instance to one player in your kitchen and another in your living room.
‘yoyojazz’ has kindly sent in a guide for creating an iSCSI target hosted on a ZFS RAIDz1 file system.
The guide covers:
- Adding Discs to FreeNAS
- Formatting Drives
- Creating a ZFS Virtual Device
- Adding a device to the ZFS Management page
- Creating an iSCSI target
The guide is in PDF format and you can download it here: FreeNAS_ZFS_iSCSI_v0.1.pdf
FreeNAS + Mercurial is a little tutorial about installing Mercurial (the distributed version control system on FreeNAS 0.69 (for those using the 0.7 series you will need to look for the appropriate packages in the FreeBSD ports).
It was actually a lot easier than I though it would be.
Bit-tech have posted an excellent tutorial on “How to build a NAS box” which includes both the hardware aspects and the software, which in this case is FreeNAS.
“A NAS – or Network Attached Storage box is the easy and increasingly popular answer because you can simply drag and drop files to/from any PC… NAS boxes are a very low power way to store masses of data, while also giving everyone on the network access to that data.”
Via the FreeNAS forum, Phan Vinh Thinh has posted some details on how to secure your FreeNAS server.
There doesn’t seem to have been an actual official announcement about this, but it seems FreeNAS 0.7.1 has been released.
You can download it from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/
FreeNAS 0.7.1 (Shere):
Majors changes:
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