So is FreeNAS 11 really ready for prime time?

[ChiknNutz]

I admit I have not been following the development all that much, but now see there is an option to move to FreeNAS-11-STABLE. I am currently on 9.10-STABLE. I have poked around thru the various forums, looking for a sticky or something leading me to the answer. If I move to 11 are there any known pitfalls to doing so or is it literally as simple as choosing the FreeNAS-11-STABLE train and letting the updater do it's thing? More specifically, are there other things that I need to do? I saw some mention of rebuilding jails and such, or is that strictly related to the release candidates and not the STABLE version? I am sure there must be a thread somewhere, but a forum search did not yield what I was looking for.

 

[dracozny]

From what I have gathered. 11-Stable is actually RC2. Personally, I won't bother until I see version 11 publicly announced and distributed at http://www.freenas.org/download-freenas-release/

 

[gpsguy]

Many of us, wish they didn't use that term right now. FreeNAS 11 RC3 has been released, RC4 is coming soon. And, then the release of 11.0. I've given up, quoting their released dates, since the dates keep sliding back and they've added more release candidates.

You might want to read this thread - https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/im-gonna-blow-a-gasket-i-swear-i-am.54738/

but now see there is an option to move to FreeNAS-11-STABLE

 

[Ericloewe]

RC4 is being held up by some AD work.

 

[ChiknNutz]

Thank you for the link to the other thread. I agree that the word STABLE is very misleading in this case. To me that indicates it really is the G2G version, but it appears that is simply not the case yet.

 

[Stranded Camel]

FWIW, I've been using FreeNAS-11.0-RC3 since the day after it came out, having upgraded directly from version 9. The upgrade went flawlessly, and I've only run into two bugs:

1. Every once in a while, while doing something from the web interface, it'll throw an error about not being able to create a new thread. I'm not sure how this affects stability or performance of the server, but after this happens the left-hand column of the web interface can't load, so just to be safe I reboot (I have to SSH in and do a `reboot` from there, since the reboot button in the GUI is in the column that doesn't load).

2. Bhyve VMs do not start on boot when they're on encrypted volumes, regardless of whether or not this setting is checked. Obviously, they can't start until the volume is decrypted, but in this case the expected behaviour would be for them to start automatically upon decryption, and this doesn't happen.

Mind you, like all users I only make use of a subset of FreeNAS's functions -- in my case, beside the base server and disk functionality, I use SSH, NFS, bhyve, SMART, DDNS and the UPS service. But so far it seems solid enough for an RC.

 

[Stux]

FWIW, I've been using FreeNAS-11.0-RC3 since the day after it came out, having upgraded directly from version 9. The upgrade went flawlessly, and I've only run into two bugs:

1. Every once in a while, while doing something from the web interface, it'll throw an error about not being able to create a new thread. I'm not sure how this affects stability or performance of the server, but after this happens the left-hand column of the web interface can't load, so just to be safe I reboot (I have to SSH in and do a `reboot` from there, since the reboot button in the GUI is in the column that doesn't load).

2. Bhyve VMs do not start on boot when they're on encrypted volumes, regardless of whether or not this setting is checked. Obviously, they can't start until the volume is decrypted, but in this case the expected behaviour would be for them to start automatically upon decryption, and this doesn't happen.

Mind you, like all users I only make use of a subset of FreeNAS's functions -- in my case, beside the base server and disk functionality, I use SSH, NFS, bhyve, SMART, DDNS and the UPS service. But so far it seems solid enough for an RC.

Have you reported these bugs?

 

[Stranded Camel]

Have you reported these bugs?

I wanted to, but when I get to the bug tracker all I see is a nearly blank page with little more than "Welcome to FreeNAS / PC-BSD / iXsystems bug central" on it.

Is that the wrong place?

 

[Stux]

Sign In, Click Projects, click FreeNAS, Click the + sign

or:
https://bugs.freenas.org/projects/freenas/issues/new

 

[anodos]

RC4 is being held up by some AD work.

"some" - https://github.com/freenas/samba/commit/1c7542ff4904b729e311e17464ee76582760c219

aka hacking on domain provisioning code in Samba to make it understand NFSv4 ACLs.

 

[danb35]

Is that the wrong place?

It's not the wrong place, as such, but you can also report a bug directly through your FreeNAS GUI. Use the Support button. Or use the link @Stux gave.

 

[Stranded Camel]

Thanks for the tips, guys. I've reported one of the bugs (here) and will report the other one as soon as it happens again.