what are you on about? I have used FreeNAS for years, just never made a forum account until recently due to this corral stuff. (Reason for post was a invitation to start a conversation with the community so I could talk about why and explaining the recent instability of FreeNAS has forced me away from much beloved FreeNAS@Ykno not sure about the purpose of your thread, but you do realize FreeNAS is an OS, not a piece of hardware right? The only NAS solution RocStor offers is in their enterprise class, and you can build a super high end FreeNAS build for less than one of their NAS solutions.
I'd recommend doing some research about FreeNAS, which you've clearly not done, but hey, to each their own.
If you're referring to Corral, it was scrapped, with many issues of instability outside iXsystems' control, hence the scrapping. Corral was also never production ready and users were flat up told not to run it on production systems. To take issue with an OS claiming to be beta due to it's instability is analogous to a user running the beta version of Android's next version then taking issue with the instability of their phone... it doesn't make sense, demonstrating a false set of expectations by the user....recent instability of FreeNAS
Misunderstandings aside, it is true that the purpose of this thread is vague.
Could you elaborate on the reasons you are moving away from Freenas, and moving to Rockstor ?
From my understanding, BTRFS is still pretty young and subject to issues ? I have not digged into it, so I am only lending some distant credit to what I have read here and there.
True ZFS is better but there is other factors mainly being dockers I got so used to them I just need them and for love of me and trust me I have tried multiple times I just cant get rancherOS on FreeNAS to work.. honestly soon as dockers are on FreeNAS I would love to use it again but due to file system difference it be impossible with my expanding NAS size, But also another main point is I actually work on btrfs system in my job such as synology systems to name one. I was planning to switch to Xpenology but after more research I found not all function work due to it being basically a crack synology so.What could possibly compel someone to trade ZFS for btrfs?
I dont see why yes its a newer file system but is now officially marked as stable and is backed by a lot of big company's/organisations.Nothing wrong with a Linux based NAS but I would never trust my data on BTRFS.
Ye dockers will be coming but I think it not till like end year maybe more so ye I need my systems back now. Should have stuck with Corral until then really but I was to quick to fire the gun and fought I could use jails but nope :/I think it is jails and VMs in FN11 ?
I hate to see an old FreeNAS user leave! It's your choice, of course, and I wish you well with whatever decision you make....I have used FreeNAS for years, just never made a forum account until recently due to this corral stuff. (Reason for post was a invitation to start a conversation with the community so I could talk about why and explaining the recent instability of FreeNAS has forced me away from much beloved FreeNAS.
One scrub of a RAID5/6 array and *poof* data gone.What could possibly compel someone to trade ZFS for btrfs?
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56The parity RAID code has multiple serious data-loss bugs in it. It should not be used for anything other than testing purposes.
That doesn't mean much (*cough* Corral *cough*).officially marked as stable
So is ZFS, with the difference that it's actually been in serious use for decades.is backed by a lot of big company's/organisations.
WRITE HOLE? IN 2017?
Not if they take reliability as seriously as they have up until now (which is to say, not very seriously).that Rockstor and it's BTRFS-based system will take the storage world by storm
Sure, they were told that. A MONTH AFTER CORRAL RELEASED. Up until then, it was the current, -STABLE, -RELEASE version of FreeNAS. You can't reasonably expect the users to know that the official release is a steaming pile, so much so that it's beyond repair.Corral was also never production ready and users were flat up told not to run it on production systems.
I didn't realize that, as I hadn't been following the forum that closely for a while, and only began again after I saw Corral was in "final" testing.Sure, they were told that. A MONTH AFTER CORRAL RELEASED. Up until then, it was the current, -STABLE, -RELEASE version of FreeNAS. You can't reasonably expect the users to know that the official release is a steaming pile, so much so that it's beyond repair.
I tend to disagree. FreeNAS 11 has had a much more rational development cycle. It was running on FreeBSD 11 for months before 9.10.3 was a thing and the RC phase is being taken very seriously now.So far, nothing from iX indicates that they've really addressed whatever corporate problem is allowing things like this to happen, over and over again.