March 5th company iXsystems announced the merger of the code base of its two projects FreeNAS ΠΈ THUNDERS under the general name - TrueNAS Open Storage.
FreeNAS β a free operating system for organizing network storage. FreeNAS is OS based FreeBSD. The main features include integrated support for ZFS and the ability to manage the system through a web interface written in Python using the Django framework. Protocols can be used to access storage over the network FTP, NFS, Samba, AFP, rsync and iSCS, built-in support is implemented LDAP/Active Directory, and to increase reliability you can configure the software RAID array 0, 1 or 5th level.
Initially, the company released two versions of the distribution:
- FreeNAS - free distribution
- TruNAS - FreeNAS-based distribution for commercial use. It came bundled with the company's storage systems.
Since 12.0 versions, which is expected to be released in the second half of this year, these two distributions will be combined into one, and users will be offered two versions:
- TrueNAS CORE - free opensource version
- TrueNAS Enterprise - corporate version
Merging distributions will speed up the development cycle, simplify testing and increase reliability in general, and will also speed up the transition to OpenZFS 2.0 based on βZFS on Linuxβ.
>>> Screenshot of the web interface
>>> Developer Video
Source: linux.org.ru