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I'm trying to get my head around this. If I have a media folder of videos that I mount via NFS so that I can access from my laptop, my understanding is that I need to disable "Configuring Host Path Validation" if I then have an app like Jellyfin reading that folder for serving videos to my family. It this correct or am I misunderstanding?

The alternative is that I would need two difference datasets created, one for the NFS share and one for Jellyfin but this defeats the purpose, plus is an incredible waste of space. Please tell me I have it all wrong ...

Hello all,

I currently have my primary NAS running TrueNAS Scale, and I am adding a second as an off-site backup of my critical data which will also run TrueNAS Scale. I have three datastores at the moment, nextcloud, backups, and media. I want to replicate the entirety of nextcloud and backups, but for media I only want to backup my irreplaceable media. This would be personal photos and videos, but not my collection of Linux isos.

Is it possible to have a ZFS Replication task that excludes certain directories? If not, how would you recommend I approach this?

Thanks!

Hi, I have two Dell T110 ii. One, with more ram and slightly faster CPU acts as main server. I have it running as NFS server, one VM with a couple of services and two apps (nextcloud and immich). Happy with the setup but worried about hardware of main server failing given age. So I have replication set up (pulls from slave to main). The dataset structure is the same. Is it a matter of installing the same apps and VM on slave, load the config of main onto slave and then just leave it to replication to keep the two machines cloned? I switch on slave only on Sundays to allow replication activity. It is some form of backup I guess, although not perfect.

Hey guys! I got my home lab setup going nicely now. One mirror vdev ZFS for my Nextcloud, granting very good performance! Small question though: I got two extra drives now and was thinking if it is worth it adding it already as extra mirror vdev. My question is the following:

Will resilvering of a single disk be quicker if I have my data striped over two mirror vdev than if all my data is in a single mirror vdev?

In other words, I was wondering in that sense if it is safer to replace a disk due to shorter resilver?

Key Highlight:

This is a hotpatch to fix an issue that prevents some TrueNAS CORE systems from migrating to SCALE 22.12.4.1:

• NAS-124623 - error with home directory handling on migration from TrueNAS CORE.

Note under 22.12.4.2:

If you encountered this issue when attempting to migrate from TrueNAS CORE to SCALE 22.12.4.1, run the command mkdir /home in the TrueNAS CORE web interface shell and re-apply the upgrade.

Otherwise, users that intend to migrate from TrueNAS CORE to SCALE 22.12 (Bluefin) can directly migrate to the 22.12.4.2 hotfix release to avoid this issue.

Should I bother to keep using it or shall I just bite the pill and move to SCALE? I have 3 jails and I’m seriously considering my TrueNAS instance as a storage only, and resort to VM and containers on a dedicated machine to use applications.

Key Highlights:

This is a small hotpatch designed to address a reported bug from the 22.12.4 release and updates Samba to the v4.17.12 security update:

• Fix for HDD temperature reporting (NAS-124452)

EDIT UPDATE:

Known Issue: An issue was found after 22.12.4.1 was released that disrupts migrations from CORE to SCALE 22.12.4.1 due to how the /home directory is handled during the update process (NAS-124623). If you encountered this issue when attempting to migrate from TrueNAS CORE to SCALE 22.12.4.1, run the command mkdir /home in the TrueNAS CORE web interface shell and re-apply the upgrade.

Otherwise, users that intend to migrate from TrueNAS CORE to SCALE 22.12 (Bluefin) can directly migrate to the 22.12.4.2 hotfix release to avoid this issue.

Key Highlights

• Users with active or enabled deprecated services in 22.12.4 are alerted to address these deprecated features before attempting to upgrade to a new TrueNAS SCALE major version.

• WebDAV share creation is disabled NAS-122280. The related WebDAV application is available instead.

• Samba updated to 4.17.0 NAS-123131.

• Numerous security updates.

• Replication hotfix from ZFS 2.1 update NAS-123123.

• New option in replication tasks for the destination dataset to inherit encryption from its parent dataset NAS-121898.

Changelog

Click here for the full changelog of completed tickets that are included in the 22.12.4 release. To switch between detail and list views for the changelog, press T. Open the changelog in Jira to see the Export menu to print or download the changelog in various file formats.

Ongoing Issues

(As of Tuesday, 03 Oct 2023 21:43:10 GMT, it's currently empty, but in the event something is added.)

Click here to see the latest information about issues discovered in 22.12.4 that are being resolved in a future TrueNAS SCALE release.

Is there a packaged solution (ansible script or similar) to setup Wireguard in a jail to get access to the network from outside of the local network?

Apologies for delay on this post, my notification's bot for TrueNAS crashed.

Key Highlights:

This is a small hotpatch to address a ZFS issue that appears in specific circumstances with encrypted ZFS replication tasks. When the replication source system is updated to SCALE 22.12.3, a mismatch in indirect block size (IBS) values can cause kernel panics when an encrypted replication task attempts to receive ZFS snapshots to the destination system. See OpenZFS 2.1 Pull Request #15073 for more details.

Users are encouraged to update any TrueNAS SCALE system used as a replication source or destination to 22.12.3.3 to avoid this issue. It is also recommended to update any ZFS-based systems currently used as a replication destination.

22.12.3.3 Changelog

• NAS-122583 Crash on ZFS replication receive with different indirect block size

Started an update for a minor version and it's been like 20 minutes and I have no display out from the nas and I can't access it over the network. This is the first update I've done on the system how long does this usually take and when should I try rebooting it?

Key Highlights:

This is a small hotpatch to prevent an edge-case issue from occurring when Active Directory is faulted on High Availability (HA) systems.

22.12.3.2 Changelog

• NAS-122689 Prevent database replication when alembic versions do not match
• NAS-122693 Allow sysdataset move if AD is faulted

Key Highlights:

This is a small hotpatch designed to resolve issues with PCI passthrough to Virtual Machines, the order in which system services are started, and an issue with error logging when upgrading a High Availability (HA) system from 22.12.3.

22.12.3.1 Changelog

• NAS-121919 Enable cgroup controllers at boot
• NAS-122456 Properly mark a PCI device as critical
• NAS-122491 Fix failover.send_file

Little late on posting this since it was released on the 06/13/23, but better late then never.

Key Highlights:

22.12.3 includes many new features and improved functionality that span new applications for deprecated services, change to SMB service, additional tools for troubleshooting, and web UI improvements. Changes include:

• New applications for deprecated SCALE services Dynamic DNS, TFTP, OpenVPN, WebDAV, rsync daemon, and S3 MinIO.
• Multichannel capabilities added to the SMB configuration form
• Updates to the Dashboard R50 image
• Updates to the latest Linux v5.15 kernel branch
• Update Samba to 4.17.8

This release fixes a bug with dataset encryption where it was possible to create an encrypted storage pool or dataset and unencrypted datasets within that pool or dataset. Beginning with 22.12.3, it is no longer possible to create an unencrypted dataset when the storage pool or dataset is created with encryption active. Datasets created in this manner are not affected by this fix. If the original intention was for the dataset to be encrypted, please migrate any data from the unencrypted dataset to a new encrypted dataset.

Important: An issue was discovered with virtualization post-release. When virtual machines with PCI passthrough are deployed, delay upgrading to 22.12.3. For details and resolution notes, see NAS-122456.

Be sure to check the post link to see the full release notes.

What do you all use TrueNAS for? I'd love to hear how it's being used in other peoples systems!

Personally, I've got these apps installed and I love them all:

• cert-manager
• home assistant
• radarr
• 2x uptime kumas
• flame
• tailscale
• qbittorrent
• ombi
• jellyfin
• prowlarr
• sonarr
• traefik
• libreddit
• invidous
• static
• gitea