We Want to Hear Your Ideas

[diskdiddler]

I would like to see plugins deprecated. While it's nice having a library of plugins, most of which are often out of date or not maintained.

No, the plugins are still bread and butter to some of us.
Until a replacement system is in place AND superior, do not mess with this at all.

I'm using Couch, Sab, SickRage right now, I also have a manual jail created of QBit.
I basically "need" these 4 and I simply do NOT have the resources on my FN box to put them in VMs - my machine just can't do it.

 

[diskdiddler]

More welcoming forums, this seems to be happening IMO (I bring this up because as much as I talk about FreeNAS at work the number one complaint from people is that the forums are hostile no matter how little/much someone has looked into FreeNAS )

Cyberjock has been gone for a long time, bad forums is old news.

 

[diskdiddler]

Really, this. Corral (aka The Release That Must Not Be Named) was a fiasco, of course--and though I think you did the right thing in killing it, it still boggles my mind that you ever let such a half-baked product see the light of day. Rebuilding trust after that takes time. The release of 11.1 with its memory hole doesn't help that process.

In their defense, not all of us are seeing the memory hole issue, or saw that issue :/ 11.1 has been as good for me as all the 9 series was.
Pretend 10 didn't happen (sorry to those who got burnt) but 11 is good. (Although, I don't use the new UI at all)

 

[diskdiddler]

fix virtualization on AMD platform (AMD Turion II Neo N54L, .....)

Oh,...... I'm having trouble with it, what issue are you having? I thought it was me doing something wrong.

 

[danb35]

Ben have you considered looking at all the "Feature requests : Closed <can't be bothered / delayed / too hard basket / dunno how to do it>" pile on the bug tracker?

Yeah, this. It's good, I guess, that iX is reaching out to users and asking for ideas, but there are a lot of ideas in bug reports (and elsewhere on the forums) that haven't been implemented, some for a very long time, including a number of those mentioned here. I certainly hope those will be reviewed as well.

 

[danb35]

Have a GUI way to add a second disk to a single-disk pool/vdev to turn it into a mirror.

 

[danb35]

bad forums is old news.

Well, there are still rude people like me who are more concerned about giving correct information than about giving warm fuzzies (apparently agreeing with a user that building a FreeNAS box is over his head is "unacceptable").

 

[MacLemon]

When updating have a reboot button when updating is complete. So there admin can decided when to reboot.

Please let me set a timestamp when that update shall be installed and the reboot be made so this can be scheduled for non-office hours.

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

I love the new alerting when a dataset quota is nearly reached but would love to be able to configure different email address on different datasets so that the end user receives these alerts along with me.

UPDATE: I'd also like to be able to configure the alert threshold for example perhaps one at 90% and another at 95%.

 

[MacLemon]

The new-beta-UI is horribly broken in terms of usability, usefulness and especially effectiveness of use. Most daily admin tasks are hidden behind some fancy-animated icon which doesn't have any clear meaning.

At some point all admins will be forced to use the new-beta-UI and given it's current appearance it will make most of our daily tasks take twice as long since we have to wait for all the unnecessary eye-candy which appeals to marketing departments but is a blocker for actually working with one, two, or 12 FreeNAS boxes.
If you compare the amount of clicking and waiting involved for the very same tasks in the currently-working-UI (aka old UI) and the fancy-but-unusable-beta-UI you'll immediately notice that it takes at least twice as many steps to achieve the same goal, if possible at all.

The information to get a good overview over running services, Volumes, Jails, Plgins, anything easily fits on a 15" laptop screen when using the old-UI.
With the new UI, it's impossible to do that because of all the fancyness that is unused space. (Not helpful, view guiding and structure providing white-space, but wasted useless widgets, borders, margins, etc.) It's pretty much unusable without a 27" monitor.
(I guess devs are working with (multiple) 4K screens and just don't notice they're designing a UI that is absolutely not suitable for the tasks and use-case their target audience actually has.)
Those tasks are working locally or remotely, via VPN or SSH, from a laptop.

 

[storage-junkie]

It's been mentioned here before, but I'd like to second the motion: I'd like to see support for automatic pausing and resuming of the send/receive functionality. Basically, I'd like it to honor the Begin and End times on the replication task.

 

[storage-junkie]

Another one I'd love to see is the ability to blink a drive to help identify it.

 

[m0nkey_]

The new-beta-UI is horribly broken in terms of usability, usefulness and especially effectiveness of use. Most daily admin tasks are hidden behind some fancy-animated icon which doesn't have any clear meaning.

At some point all admins will be forced to use the new-beta-UI and given it's current appearance it will make most of our daily tasks take twice as long since we have to wait for all the unnecessary eye-candy which appeals to marketing departments but is a blocker for actually working with one, two, or 12 FreeNAS boxes.
If you compare the amount of clicking and waiting involved for the very same tasks in the currently-working-UI (aka old UI) and the fancy-but-unusable-beta-UI you'll immediately notice that it takes at least twice as many steps to achieve the same goal, if possible at all.

You're invited to open bug tickets and report UI issues at at https://redmine.ixsystems.com/projects/freenas :)

 

[m0nkey_]

No, the plugins are still bread and butter to some of us.
Until a replacement system is in place AND superior, do not mess with this at all.

Both pkg and ports will be more up to date. As far as I understand, there will be a replacement plugin system using iocage which utilizes both pkg and ports. It's not baked into the UI yet, but it is possible to use it via the command line.

 

[diskdiddler]

If you compare the amount of clicking and waiting involved for the very same tasks in the currently-working-UI (aka old UI) and the fancy-but-unusable-beta-UI you'll immediately notice that it takes at least twice as many steps to achieve the same goal, if possible at all.

The information to get a good overview over running services, Volumes, Jails, Plgins, anything easily fits on a 15" laptop screen when using the old-UI.
With the new UI, it's impossible to do that because of all the fancyness that is unused space. (Not helpful, view guiding and structure providing white-space, but wasted useless widgets, borders, margins, etc.) It's pretty much unusable without a 27" monitor.

This pretty much sums up the definition of bad UI “improvement”
I’ve seen it so many times in this industry, mostly in the past 10 years that it’s almost uncountable. Over and over and over companies will put in a new UI, to appease management, to try to get new customers, to fit in with idiotic “material design” etc.

I would be comfortable saying that less than 10% of the time this results in a home run and 0% of the time does it use less screen resolution, even when its “good”

 

[diskdiddler]

Both pkg and ports will be more up to date. As far as I understand, there will be a replacement plugin system using iocage which utilizes both pkg and ports. It's not baked into the UI yet, but it is possible to use it via the command line.

I don’t think it’s very nice of me to say this, but I’ve looked at the current list of iocage plugins and the list appeared to be the same or less than the existing ones.

I’m surprised. I thought if it’s a much better system, we would see it adopted quickly and a larger list of plugins available?

 

[Ericloewe]

Since it's not properly out in the wild yet, it's a bit early to say if people are going to submit plugins for the new infrastructure.

 

[danb35]

...and in addition to that, there are others who have prepared what are effectively plugins--short scripts that require minimal configuration, and install a working jail with the desired packages and configuration. See https://github.com/kjake/freenas-iocage-unifi, for example.

 

[marian78]

Add ipfw GUI functionality

 

[marian78]

Add fail2ban