FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS protocols, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface.

FreeNAS is a NAS server that supports FTP, NFS protocols, Software RAID. FreeNAS takes less than 16MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

OS/Third party:
· Use smaller block and frag sizes for /etc and /var .
· Import a build tweak to nuke /var/db/pkg to save ~7MB space.
· Other build tweaks to remove non-essential features and packages from the image.
· Disable output to /var/log/console.log in non-debug builds to avoid unnecessary duplication in /var/log/messages.
· Upgrade ataidle to 2.6.
· Upgrade nut / net-snmp to 2.6.2 and 5.7.1, respectively.
· Import omnibus build system fixes to fix the fact that the 8.0.3-BETA1 image was broken due to the environment of the build machine where it was produced on. This also fixes other items, such as DDNS because of build environment tainting.
· Increase the /var md size from 74MB to 160MB s.t. samba will be able to service requests copying large sets of files, and the rest of the system will be able to play nicely with samba to a certain degree. More tuning is required for larger samba userbases.

GUI:
· Add kernel tunable / sysctl support.

Middleware:
· Hide Etc/GMT* timezones as they'r...