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Original message
Wouldn't that be great: a FreeBSD distribution that really is FreeBSD, but comes with a nice Web-GUI to manage your disks for use with ZFS. Still the power of FreeBSD with full shell access and the ability to run almost anything, paired with the convenience of a Web-GUI to do most basic tasks.
Most people will know the FreeNAS GUI; i want to make something much easier and less complex. This topic serves to discuss what features this GUI should have, and any other ideas that may be inspiring.
I'm currently in the works with PHP to setup a script that automates ZFS tasks; making SSH shell access less often required. It can also be used to display nice graphs for example about used storage space or bandwidth. The idea is to make a package with FreeBSD pre-installed and most things setup; only the Web-GUI being required to actually use it as NAS.
The advantages versus FreeNAS would be that you're running full-fledged FreeBSD (can install torrent stuff for example) and you will have the most recent stable ZFS version.
I'm currently trying to come up with a list of basic functionality. Could use some help with that. Assume you are a Windows-user looking at linux/BSD alternatives to build a nice NAS for use with ZFS. What features do you need? Once you login to the Web-GUI, what do you like to see? What should be implemented by the Web-GUI?
To kick-off, a small list of basic functionality:
Would love to get more feedback on this; anyone waiting for a project like this? I think FreeNAS is too much stripped down; too much GUI. I like to build something that works with native FreeBSD; so you in essence get the best of both world. But at the cost of reduced web-GUI functionality; i'm not going to recreate the entire FreeNAS GUI! Just those relevant to ZFS NAS.
Stable LiveCD: http://zfsguru.com/files/ZFSguru-0.1.7-livecd-amd64.iso.torrent
Experimental LiveCD: http://zfsguru.com/files/ZFSguru-0.1.7-preview3.iso.torrent (contains experimental ZFS v28 system image)
Original message
Wouldn't that be great: a FreeBSD distribution that really is FreeBSD, but comes with a nice Web-GUI to manage your disks for use with ZFS. Still the power of FreeBSD with full shell access and the ability to run almost anything, paired with the convenience of a Web-GUI to do most basic tasks.
Most people will know the FreeNAS GUI; i want to make something much easier and less complex. This topic serves to discuss what features this GUI should have, and any other ideas that may be inspiring.
I'm currently in the works with PHP to setup a script that automates ZFS tasks; making SSH shell access less often required. It can also be used to display nice graphs for example about used storage space or bandwidth. The idea is to make a package with FreeBSD pre-installed and most things setup; only the Web-GUI being required to actually use it as NAS.
The advantages versus FreeNAS would be that you're running full-fledged FreeBSD (can install torrent stuff for example) and you will have the most recent stable ZFS version.
I'm currently trying to come up with a list of basic functionality. Could use some help with that. Assume you are a Windows-user looking at linux/BSD alternatives to build a nice NAS for use with ZFS. What features do you need? Once you login to the Web-GUI, what do you like to see? What should be implemented by the Web-GUI?
To kick-off, a small list of basic functionality:
- Display connected disks and their corrent occupation
- Display active ZFS arrays and possible options (scrub)
- front-end to Samba/NFS/iSCSI configuration (including username/password stuff)
- access information, bandwidth status
- easy listing of snapshots and rollback/clone options
- operations such as ZFS expansion should be possible through the GUI
Would love to get more feedback on this; anyone waiting for a project like this? I think FreeNAS is too much stripped down; too much GUI. I like to build something that works with native FreeBSD; so you in essence get the best of both world. But at the cost of reduced web-GUI functionality; i'm not going to recreate the entire FreeNAS GUI! Just those relevant to ZFS NAS.
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