diskdiddler
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Ok, let's talk NAS ony. I think FreeNAS is getting worse for reliability when adding too much features.
No it's not. FreeNAS10 was an anomaly, it was a mistake and has been fully erased.
There was a minor SMB bug (?) in 11.1 U1 or something which caused some problems for users with a memory leak.
There was another very minor bug which reset users passwords, permissions or something with AD.
These are the 3 main things I can think of, in the past 18 months. The latter 2 really don't relate to them adding features.
Our case is using FreeNAS Mini box as storage server for our remote offices over the world providing local storage and backups. replicate data between head office and remote sites. Joining windows domain was a pain during 6 years of supporting remote offices. sometimes works, sometimes dosen't. sometimes out of domain after reboot or upgrade.
I believe this is a lot better now, it's a core feature and I guess you're right to complain. I don't use it but I saw a youtube video discussing this with the head dev the other day and the interviewer said how much improvement there had been.
sometimes VMs or jails not working that I have to recreated. sometimes I have to reinstall FreeNAS or reset to factory and then I can join to the domain. that's why I have to be a FreeBSD expert that can modify your code or run shell commands to join to domain manually. even not counting how many times I have to manually run commands to replace a dead disk, while other products just need plug out a disk and then put in new one then rest will be done by system to recover a disk.
They've been in a transition period, a real mess. There's a very good chance stuff is going back to 'just plain old working' over the coming 1 - 6 months.
I wouldn't bother with VMs for mission critical stuff, maybe for fun but it sounds like right now, that's not quite ready for primetime, not in a business anyhow.