NAS4Free 11.1.0.4.5019 released (FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-P6)

[zoon01]

The NAS4Free Team is pleased to announce the release of version 11.1.0.4.5019 - Atomics
it does replace 11.1.0.4.5017!

Download build 11.1.0.4.5019
Please Read always the readme_11.1 file

BUILD 11.1.0.4.5019

Changes after release 11.1.0.4.4994
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- Upgrade to FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-P6.
- Update translations.
- WebGUI code & framework improvements.
- Upgrade dmidecode to 3.1.
- Upgrade syncthing to 0.14.41.
- Fix load issue on Status > Disks.
- Fix webgui Minidlna and Email Reports Setup.

Note:
Clear your browser's cache to avoid display issues after upgrade when coming from older release like past 11.0 series.
Make a new backup of your system configuration and store this on safe location, the system config.xml has been upgraded!

Enjoy!

Regards,
The NAS4Free Team

[provels]

Upgraded fine here. I'm assuming the Extended GUI extension needs to be disabled before these upgrades? Because...
I had just installed 11.x 4994 to my former 10.x box after removing extensions as required and restoring config and that went fine. But yesterday I tried upgrading to 5017 without disabling Extended GUI and was left at the the end of the upgrade with "System halted. Press any key to reboot" and then no boot device on restart. Reinstalled 4994 and restored config fine, then retried the upgrade with same results. Then I remembered having to disable Ext GUI for 10.x upgrades. Upgrade to 5017 went fine after that and did same today for 5019. Just FYI in case I'm not the only one who has done this to himself.

Thanks again for a great product and your dedication.

[BodgeIT]

5017 -> 5019 failed for me (see image).

IMG_20171212_152044.jpg

When this happens, the only way I can get the system to work is format the usb stick on windows and reinstall NFF from LiveUSB back to usb stick.
Next time tho, I'll try @provels suggestion of disabling OBI. I also have NextCloud & Ext Gui installed so will probably disable those too.

[sleid]

5017 -> 5019 failed for me (see image).

When this happens, the only way I can get the system to work is format the usb stick on windows and reinstall NFF from LiveUSB back to usb stick.
Next time tho, I'll try @provels suggestion of disabling OBI. I also have NextCloud installed so will probably disable that too.

NextCloud absolutely does not bother the Nas4Free upgrade from 5517 to 5519.

[BodgeIT]

NextCloud absolutely does not bother the Nas4Free upgrade from 5517 to 5519.

OK Np.

I realise now the reason my upgrade fails is that it's trying to load NFF from ad0 when it is actually stored on da6.

Is there a command to tell it to change during failed boot?

[provels]

5017 -> 5019 failed for me (see image).
IMG_20171212_152044.jpg
When this happens, the only way I can get the system to work is format the usb stick on windows and reinstall NFF from LiveUSB back to usb stick.
Next time tho, I'll try @provels suggestion of disabling OBI. I also have NextCloud installed so will probably disable that too.

Exactly what I got. Went fine after disabling Ext GUI.

[Snufkin]

Noticed fix in Tools | Execute command.
Now WebGUI again supports a proper visual formatting of command output.
Good job!

[BodgeIT]

Exactly what I got. Went fine after disabling Ext GUI.

OK, great thanks @provels. Disable Ext Gui not NextCloud or OBI... simple enough.

Thanks Devs

[maarten]

*** WARNING ***

Upgrade using GUI from NAS4Free 11.1.0.4.4994 failed: NAS4Free won't start.

Will have to take my system out of the cabinet and connect a display to see what's going wrong.

But be aware upgrading is not safe as opposed to previous releases.

This is what happened:

[raulfg3]

*** WARNING ***

Upgrade using GUI from NAS4Free 11.1.0.4.4994 failed: NAS4Free won't start.

Will have to take my system out of the cabinet and connect a display to see what's going wrong.

But be aware upgrading is not safe as opposed to previous releases.

your USB Boot device have problems, not a N4F fail, is a device problem, please consider to change brand next time or usa a small SSD.

PD: Remembere that USB3 have worse boot support on BSD so it's not recomended

[maarten]

Absolutely nothing to do with USB boot device since I do not boot from USB !!! Your conclusion is preliminary as your analysis is not right.

Old nas4free installation boots perfectly...

Just happened after upgrade to latest version (using firmware upgrade through GUI)

[zoon01]

Absolutely nothing to do with USB boot device since I do not boot from USB !!! Your conclusion is preliminary as your analysis is not right.

Old nas4free installation boots perfectly...

Just happened after upgrade to latest version (using firmware upgrade through GUI)

Please boot livecd/usb and perform and try a upgrade again.
something might or went wrong first time.

[raulfg3]

Absolutely nothing to do with USB boot device since I do not boot from USB !!! Your conclusion is preliminary as your analysis is not right.

Old nas4free installation boots perfectly...

Just happened after upgrade to latest version (using firmware upgrade through GUI)

sorry for that.

I apologize to take a preliminary analysis.

I see uhub3 & 4 detached and asume that are USB3 devices

[maarten]

Absolutely nothing to do with USB boot device since I do not boot from USB !!! Your conclusion is preliminary as your analysis is not right.

Old nas4free installation boots perfectly...

Just happened after upgrade to latest version (using firmware upgrade through GUI)

sorry for that.

I apologize to take a preliminary analysis.

I see uhub3 & 4 detached and asume that are USB3 devices

No problem, my judgment and verdict was too hard, not really friendly to those who keep making this wonderful piece of software working and up-to-date. I definitely did not do right with my tone-of-voice. I should apologize, hereby my apologies. Meanwhile I have re-installed NAS4Free, somehow my CF-drive had become corrupted during first upgrade. Those things happen.

[BodgeIT]

Hi, think my question may have been missed in all the excitement.

Is there a command to redirect FreeBSD boot to an alternate partition in the example of my image above?
I think rather than reinstalling via LiveUSB, changing the expected boot part may fix it?

[provels]

*** WARNING ***

Upgrade using GUI from NAS4Free 11.1.0.4.4994 failed: NAS4Free won't start.

Will have to take my system out of the cabinet and connect a display to see what's going wrong.

But be aware upgrading is not safe as opposed to previous releases.

This is what happened:

Did you have Extended GUI enabled? If so, see second post in thread, otherwise ignore.

[provels]

A quick question on v11.x vs. v10.x versions - I have noticed that the v11.x version uses quite a bit more memory than the v10.x series. My ancient server is limited to 4GB max and I see the memory usage quickly climb to 90% after used for a while. Do you think I'd be better off reverting to the last 10.x version (I have on CD)? The server uses a ZFS mirror (prefetch disabled now) and is used for some music but mostly for cold backup storage. The last v10.x install used around 70% max, even with prefetch enabled. The install is on an 8GB USB and shows 4GB swap available (none used), but I don't know whether that is a very reliable situation (if it was on SSD or HDD, I'd be less concerned). What would you do? I mean besides replacing a 13 year-old server...

EDIT: Maybe I should revert. I am using swap on the USB. I copied an 8GB file to the NAS and ended up with 24MB in swap used.

[raulfg3]

A quick question on v11.x vs. v10.x versions - I have noticed that the v11.x version uses quite a bit more memory than the v10.x series. My ancient server is limited to 4GB max and I see the memory usage quickly climb to 90% after used for a while. Do you think I'd be better off reverting to the last 10.x version (I have on CD)? The server uses a ZFS mirror (prefetch disabled now) and is used for some music but mostly for cold backup storage. The last v10.x install used around 70% max, even with prefetch enabled. The install is on an 8GB USB and shows 4GB swap available (none used), but I don't know whether that is a very reliable situation (if it was on SSD or HDD, I'd be less concerned). What would you do? I mean besides replacing a 13 year-old server...

If your NAS is not accesible from outside , then is acceptable to stay with old version of N4F that work for you, but...
If your NAS is accesible from outside (internet) , you need to have a updated system to avoid intrusion problems, so finally you must decide what is your need and decide to upgrade or not

PD: Allways for a home NAS system, for a production system, recomendation is always have it updated.

[provels]

If your NAS is not accesible from outside , then is acceptable to stay with old version of N4F that work for you, but...
If your NAS is accesible from outside (internet) , you need to have a updated system to avoid intrusion problems, so finally you must decide what is your need and decide to upgrade or not

PD: Allways for a home NAS system, for a production system, recomendation is always have it updated.

Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'm going back. Too bad for me, I'll be missing out for a while.
I just copied an 8GB file to the NAS and ended up with 24MB in swap used.

[jamaroney]

I have noticed that the v11.x version uses quite a bit more memory than the v10.x series. My ancient server is limited to 4GB max and I see the memory usage quickly climb to 90% after used for a while.

I have latest N4F embedded (5019) w/ 4GB RAM and no swap. My memory usage is usually around 50%.

[provels]

I have latest N4F embedded (5019) w/ 4GB RAM and no swap. My memory usage is usually around 50%.

Interesting. On 11.x I was running a ZFS mirror (no prefetch), and OBI with Ext Gui and using an 8GB USB drive that defaulted to 4GB swap. Memory would go to 90%+swap during a large file copy. How does that compare to yours?
When I reverted to 10.x, I was back to about 70% usage after a large file copy, even with ZFS prefetch enabled and the same default swap.

[Snufkin]

Interesting. On 11.x I was running a ZFS mirror (no prefetch), and OBI with Ext Gui and using an 8GB USB drive that defaulted to 4GB swap. Memory would go to 90%+swap during a large file copy. How does that compare to yours?

Use vfs.zfs.arc_free_target tunable.
How to get RAM free from ZFS ARC

[igr4free]

hi!

upgrade from 11.1.0.4.4994 fine
many thnks

[nasser]

Hi,

where is the "clear" command? Miss it since some releases...

[provels]

Hi,

where is the "clear" command? Miss it since some releases...

Disks|Management|HDD Management (?)

[provels]

Use vfs.zfs.arc_free_target tunable.
How to get RAM free from ZFS ARC

I have left the defaults of 1GB/2GB Min/Max for vfs.zfs.arc_min/max in loader.conf and have a hard limit of 4GB RAM on the server.
What would you suggest for the vfs.zfs.arc_free_target parameter? I'd like to try it and upgrade to 11.x again. Thanks.

[Snufkin]

What would you suggest for the vfs.zfs.arc_free_target parameter? I'd like to try it and upgrade to 11.x again. Thanks.

Follow the link in my previous post, there is short report with actual numbers.
These numbers are good for N4F instance with 2GB RAM and give you smooth upgrade and rare use of swap.

[provels]

OK, been playing with this again. Installed 4994 from scratch since that's what I had on CD, restored my 10.x config (no extensions) and then web upgraded to 5019. I see something odd.
Even though vfs.zfs.arc_min: is set to 1GB in System > Advanced > loader.conf, it appears to default to 3GB
How do you suppose that happens? That's probably why I'm overrunning my memory?
I see no reference to either vfs.zfs.arc_min: or vfs.zfs.arc_max: in loader.conf. There is no loader.conf.local. It is, however, shown correctly in the config.xml.

Below copied from Putty session.
I have made no changes to vfs.zfs.arc_free_target:, it's slightly lower than what I saw as default for 10.x (6149).

vfs.zfs.arc_free_target: 5951
vfs.zfs.compressed_arc_enabled: 1
vfs.zfs.arc_shrink_shift: 7
vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize: 8192
vfs.zfs.arc_min: 301480448
vfs.zfs.arc_max: 2411843584

I tried to add the min/max parameters directly to loader.conf, but it would not let me save changes. Is that expected?

EDIT: Never mind for now. Will update later. Read bits wrong... :/

[ms49434]

loader settings configured via System > Advanced > loader.conf are written to /cf/boot/loader.conf.local

[provels]

loader settings configured via System > Advanced > loader.conf are written to /cf/boot/loader.conf.local

Understood, that's what I thought. I don't know why one was not created. I had also disabled/enabled the min/max setings in System > Advanced > loader.conf but loader.conf.local did not appear. I was using WinSCP to view and did refresh the target screen. I went ahead and reinstalled 10.x and Putty shows the correct parameters for min/max for my 1GB/2GB setting. I have a /cf/boot/loader.conf.local now. I don't know why the settings didn't seem to take, but even with the 11.x min/max defaults (which to me look like about 350MB Min and 2GB Max), it looks like maybe FreeBSD 11.x + ZFS might be too fat for my hardware.
Suggestions always appreciated and apologies that this is turning into a troubleshooting session rather than a product announcement...

vfs.zfs.arc_free_target: 6149
vfs.zfs.arc_shrink_shift: 7
vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize: 8192
vfs.zfs.arc_min: 1073741824
vfs.zfs.arc_max: 2147483648