iXsystems to unify its products for the rapid deployment of network storage (NAS, Network-Attached Storage). The free distribution will be merged with the commercial project , which expands the capabilities of FreeNAS for enterprises and is pre-installed on systems released by iXsystems.
Historically, FreeNAS and TrueNAS were developed, tested, and released separately, despite a large amount of shared code. Significant effort was needed to unify the build system and packages of the distributions. In version , TrueNAS code achieved parity with FreeNAS in plugin and virtual environment support, and the shared code volume exceeded 95%, enabling the final merging of the projects.
In version 12.0, expected in the second half of the year, FreeNAS and TrueNAS will be combined and presented under the unified name 'TrueNAS Open Storage'. Users will be offered two editions: TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise. The former will be similar to FreeNAS and will be provided for free, while the latter will focus on delivering additional capabilities for enterprises.
The merger will accelerate development and reduce the release preparation cycle by up to 6 months, strengthen quality control, synchronize development with FreeBSD for more timely support of new hardware, simplify documentation, unify websites, ease migration between the commercial and free editions of the distribution, and speed up the transition to
based on 'ZFS on Linux'.
FreeNAS is based on the FreeBSD codebase, featuring integrated ZFS support and management via a web interface built using the Python Django framework. Access to storage is supported through FTP, NFS, Samba, AFP, rsync, and iSCSI, while software RAID (0,1,5) can be used to enhance storage reliability. Client authorization is supported through LDAP/Active Directory.
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