Hi From Shropshire, UK

[modellermark2]

I thought i had an account as i have been running Freenas for years but it seems not so i ave re-joined.
I live in a beautiful (though currently very wet) part of the UK
I run freenas 9.10 on a Dell T10 with a single pool of 4 x 4Tb disks but will be adding an extra pool soon.
I am a backup technical specialist (Veritas NetBackup) and in my spare time (limited!) i fly radio control aircriaft and drones.
Hi everyone :)

 

[Kris Moore]

Welcome from across the pond!

9.10 though? We got to get you updated ;)

 

[modellermark2]

Welcome from across the pond!

9.10 though? We got to get you updated ;)

Thanks - yes, i really do want to upgrade as i can't bring y plex up to date but i heard rumblings that it wasn't an easy path sometimes.
I have an NFS Share and Plex and that is it really - 4 disks making one volume that i use for everything.
Is it as easy as selecting "upgrade"? (I have a backup of my config)

 

[sretalla]

With such a simple config, you might even have a better result just starting from a fresh install and importing your pool.

To create a plex jail and one NFS share would take just a few minutes assuming your plex database and media are separated out to a nullfs mounts already. Even if not, it's a great chance to do that.

 

[modellermark2]

With such a simple config, you might even have a better result just starting from a fresh install and importing your pool.

To create a plex jail and one NFS share would take just a few minutes assuming your plex database and media are separated out to a nullfs mounts already. Even if not, it's a great chance to do that.

OK - as i have a save of my config would it hurt to hit the upgrade button anyway and see what happens and if any issues just start afresh - or can an upgrade actually break things?

 

[sretalla]

You can always give it a shot.

Your jail will be very old and will itself need an upgrade following the FreeNAS upgrade... this is the most likely part to be problematic.

Jails should be more-or-less disposable if used correctly, since all important storage lives outside it and is mounted into the jail, so makeing a fresh one and just mounting the same directories to the same locations in the jail should be a doddle.

 

[modellermark2]

You can always give it a shot.

Your jail will be very old and will itself need an upgrade following the FreeNAS upgrade... this is the most likely part to be problematic.

Jails should be more-or-less disposable if used correctly, since all important storage lives outside it and is mounted into the jail, so makeing a fresh one and just mounting the same directories to the same locations in the jail should be a doddle.

OK great - thanks - once my new disk has finished the resilver i will give it a go and let you know how i get on.
I had noticed that there seem to be two options - the "standard" or the "nightlies" - is this still the case and if so which should i go for?
Thanks again
Mark

 

[sretalla]

Nightlies are just that, automated builds from source code done every night... this can produce results that won't even boot (in extreme cases), so unless you hate yourself to that extent, I would avoid them. Stick with STABLE.

The Release Candidate (RC) or Beta trains that arrive before new major versions are possibly worth more consideration, but we just finished that for 11.3, so probably not another one of those coming until 12.

 

[modellermark2]

Nightlies are just that, automated builds from source code done every night... this can produce results that won't even boot (in extreme cases), so unless you hate yourself to that extent, I would avoid them. Stick with STABLE.

The Release Candidate (RC) or Beta trains that arrive before new major versions are possibly worth more consideration, but we just finished that for 11.3, so probably not another one of those coming until 12.

Brilliant - glad i asked then - thanks :)