Comments on: Goodbye FreeNAS, Hello Ubuntu Server

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:45:28 +0000

Yeah the web access is awesome in FreeNAS. I may be chucking my old AMD Athlon64 3500+ into my server case, so might give it a try again at some point. I’m still running Ubuntu, very smoothly too. It’s handy as I also run Mercurial and Git from it, as well as a TeamSpeak server. Got around 2.5TB in it now, might add another 1TB and run two drives in RAID 1.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:32:18 +0000

I loaded freenas on to a small 40 gb HD and have 2 140 gb HD for storage. It ran great, reboot it wont come up, reinstall works great, reboot won’t install. Moved drives around on the mother board, replaced drives with others. Still could not get it to run. After a few days we looked at the power supply and it was to small to run the three drives. replaced the PS set up a raid 1 with an external back up and its been running non-stop for over a year.

I really like the web access to the server and I have it emails me weekly with a server report.

By: FreeNAS « stinner dot com

FreeNAS « stinner dot com — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:35:35 +0000

[...] it is close enough to Linux that I don’t have too much to learn. If I wind up running into any issues, I’ll probably skip OpenFiler and just install Ubuntu Server [...]

By: Jannik

Jannik — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:01:41 +0000

Same probleme here ,can’t change the folder permissions in Freenas . I gave up after 20 hour (including all the other problems) When I think of it , a nas server is a bit of a joke if its build on a PC . I have never had problems when I have my ubuntu or linux mint doing the same and much more . Boot time in more or less the same . You gain nothing ! only a BIG HEADACHE.
HEADACHE .

By: Felipe Sugimoto

Felipe Sugimoto — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:06:50 +0000

Dear friend. I had the SAME problem. After hours, days and weeks looking for the solution I found that our SiI 3114 Serial ATA Controller doesn’t work (well) with FreeNAS.
I pretend to make an Ubuntu server with RAID 5 using ext3 and use it also as a gateway/firewall router on Mythbuntu. I don’t know yet if it will be possible, but I’m studying.

By: Caue Rego

Caue Rego — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:16:08 +0000

Thanks again Robert.

Coincidentally I’ve found about that umask command on wikipedia, through reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fstab

I still couldn’t make any use of this as well. I didn’t think it would be a shell issue, although I don’t know what it is exactly. I’m just supposing it’s on mount. Anyway, changing /etc/profile didn’t help a bit, but using umask on the shell does change the way files are created on it. I have no use for just that, tho.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:26:39 +0000

Ahh, now your problem makes a little more sense.

For file creation you want to look at “umask”. I’ve just googled it, here’s a good article explaining it (save me doing so), http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/understanding-linux-unix-umask-value-usage.html.

You can set the umask value in /etc/profile, or the bash.rc in the users home directory. Samba should be running off a specific user so it should be possible for Samba too.

By: Caue Rego

Caue Rego — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:59:43 +0000

i would setup a group and use 775 permissions, but i can’t change the permissions at all! every file created is done so with 644 (755 for dir). be it localy or through samba (which, by the way, is configured to do 777). so, in my case, it seems like a mounting issue that i just can’t figure out, and it seems like nobody cares for a long time. i find very old discussions on this subject that also gets to nowhere. quite frustrating.

anyway, you already answered my question. thank you.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:38:43 +0000

Ubuntu Server is definitely harder to set up. I’ve a reasonable experience with Linux having used it for 5 years so I’ve not had too many problems. It takes a little longer to learn, but once set up it just runs and runs.

With regards to ext3, typically if everyone does have read/write access, then 777 isn’t far off wrong. But personally I’d set up a group and use 755 permissions, and then add the guest user to that group.

By: Caue Rego

Caue Rego — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:01:25 +0000

Those are indeed weird problems with freenas.

I’ve been trying to use both ubuntu and freenas but I’m in such a dead end trying to make the ext3 files to just be freely accessible that I’m almost formatting it to ntfs, and that’s when I’d try freenas first.

How did you solve this issue?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7694917#post7694917

Ubuntu Server would be quite great if it were more like freenas for getting it started and running, including the web interface, which could look more like a cpanel variant.