Two things that annoy me

[artlessknave]

The free version is called now "TrueNAS", and the one shipped with the iX Systems' systems is called "TrueNAS Enterprise".

actually.
technically.

The free NAS is TrueNAS Core.

 

[danb35]

The free NAS is TrueNAS Core.

...and TrueNAS SCALE.

 

[joeschmuck]

@Davvo
See what you started! It goes on and on and....

 

[jgreco]

...and TrueNAS SCALE.

No, that's the Linux NAS. The Free NAS is FreeNAS.

 

[victort]

It’s True that FreeNAS was and is Free and True that is was the first free FreeNAS.
But since then the free FreeNAS has become the true free TrueNAS.

 

[artlessknave]

one shouldn't forget NAS4Free, either, the FreeNAS from before TrueNAS was FreeNAS and FreeNAS became FreeNAS 8 and FreeNAS 0.7.
except NAS4Free is now aparently XigmaNAS (a good name change)[some of those screenshots give me a bit of PTSD though.)
NASy

 

[Davvo]

Aliens - They're coming outta the goddamn walls!

LET'S ROCK!http://www.alienscolonialmarines.nethttp://www.facebook.com/AliensColonialMarines

m.youtube.com

Free TrueNAS upgrade

I'm hoping this is just a procedural question that applies to all versions. I recently had a power outage and as a result my Dell T30 tower server running FreeNAS would no longer boot to TrueNAS (no boot device found). So I resorted to reinstalling FreeNAS from the latest download...

www.truenas.com

Thanks to @winnielinnie for bringing this to my attention.

 

[wsoteros]

The first thing that rubs me in a kinda bad way is the (apparent) misuse of the general help section. Now, I am not really clear myself about what should be posted there since we have sections for CORE 13, SCALE and Virtualized Instances, but I seem to have reached a consensus with my brain to use that section for bare metal issues only since VM, passthroufgh and alike require a specific set of knowledge that does not come with the standard use of TrueNAS.

We're phasing out this section for this exact reason. Expect changes this week.

 

[Papa]

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Yes, best not to be a Truenass about it. (It even hurt to type it that way)

 

[Papa]

I gotta add my 2 cents.....

Years ago, when I started using a Linux server - the distro was called E-Smith - which was later Mitel Server - no matter.
All of us newbies were asking the "Hard For Us" questions - but simple for others as we were learning. The "Smart Guys" patrolled our questions and rather than help us - gave us answers like - "That's been answered elsewhere; use the search engine." And many of us, try as we might, couldn't find the right phrase for the search. So our questions went unanswered, and we struggled.

From time to time, we would find a friend who - when we asked nicely - would hint toward the correct answer.

The caboose on this train is simple - sometimes we are babbling idiots - those that are new on a forum - but idiots need help too.
Yes, I'm fairly quiet on this forum, but not new to searching for answers, been in IT since 1998 - full-time Tech since 2007 till my retirement a year ago.

Give em a break, and forgive their challenges.

 

[jgreco]

And many of us, try as we might, couldn't find the right phrase for the search.

For anyone who ever wondered about the weird names I give lots of my resources, it comes down to "right phrase for the search". Since my ultimate goal is to hand out comprehensive answers where I can, I tend to hand out links. And since it usually takes some experience to identify what resource that would be, it's often me pointing them at the resource. And I do lots better with the slightly unusual titles.

I hope we do better than those earlier forums.

 

[Papa]

For anyone who ever wondered about the weird names I give lots of my resources, it comes down to "right phrase for the search". Since my ultimate goal is to hand out comprehensive answers where I can, I tend to hand out links. And since it usually takes some experience to identify what resource that would be, it's often me pointing them at the resource. And I do lots better with the slightly unusual titles.

I hope we do better than those earlier forums.

HERE HERE!

Well said J!

 

[Davvo]

For anyone who ever wondered about the weird names I give lots of my resources, it comes down to "right phrase for the search". Since my ultimate goal is to hand out comprehensive answers where I can, I tend to hand out links. And since it usually takes some experience to identify what resource that would be, it's often me pointing them at the resource. And I do lots better with the slightly unusual titles.

I hope we do better than those earlier forums.

A fun or fitting name is easiesr to remember, which means it's easiesr to find again.

 

[artlessknave]

And I do lots better with the slightly unusual titles.

well, and here you are being efficient when I just assumed you wanted to sound edgy...
makes sense

 

[Davvo]

well, and here you are being efficient when I just assumed you wanted to sound edgy...
makes sense

I mean he is THE Grinch. Of course it has to be edgy!

 

[jgreco]

well, and here you are being efficient when I just assumed you wanted to sound edgy...
makes sense

It can be a bit of both. Truth be told, some of them are named out of exasperation. "Absolutely must virtualize FreeNAS" came about because of an insipid argument with someone with a bunch of wrongheaded ideas. The "Proper" in "Proper Power Supply Sizing" was a dig at a certain poster who advocated getting seriously undersized PSU's and then attempted to use back channels at iXsystems to get rid of me, culminating in jkh inviting me to leave the forums. The SAS primer was an attempt to be clever and edgy, but some other stuff like the 10 Gig Networking Primer is just straight business.

 

[artlessknave]

jkh

was that the public face of "The freenas version that shall not be named"?

 

[danb35]

the distro was called E-Smith

I started using that over 20 years ago, and I'm still using it in the form of its fork, Nethserver. I'm not sure that's what I'd choose if I were starting over today, but it's still working well for me.

"The freenas version that shall not be named"?

Yes, that was indeed jkh.

 

[awasb]

I gotta add my 2 cents.....

Years ago [...]

Give em a break, and forgive their challenges.

Give 'em a link, too:

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

 

[jgreco]

OMG. "I can't reach the TrueNAS Web UI on my laptop with a Realtek." "It's the Realtek, here's the article on that". "Bad answer!"

New install able to ping truenas ip, but cant access web gui in home network

DELL XPS L521X 15.6" Laptop Intel i7-3632QM 12GB RAM 160 GB Nvidia 640M Win 10 unable to access web gui, new install not sure what to try next, my modem ip is 192.168.50.1, truenas is set at same 255.255.255.0 subnet, not sure what else to try

www.truenas.com

Time to start drinking early. If only I drank.