Finally we did it - around 4:00 AM the last virtual machine was started from the new file-server. ;-)

Currently we're migrating one of our file servers from Linux (Debian) to FreeBSD.

This should improve the NFS performance.

To change the default shell in FreeBSD for some user simply:

pw usermod user_name -s /usr/local/bin/bash

First of all: I love FreeNAS! ;-)

But one customer had a weird problem, sometimes the FreeNAS Host (running on VMware ESXi) crashed and there was no error message at the console.

Today  I found a solution/workaround for this problem.|image0|

Just disable "Send files with sendfile(2)" and the …

Interesting BSDtalk about FreeNAS:

http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk205.ogg