FreeNAS Notes Revision as of Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 18:30 UTC

Hardware

Read the Community Hardware Guide to pick my components this time. Cheap shit causes headaches and I expect this build to last me a while.

Configuration

• SuperMicro X11SSM-F-O Micro-ATX: website, manual
• Intel Xeon E3-1230 V6 Kaby Lake
• Seasonic FOCUS Plus Series SSR-850PX 850W 80+ Platinum
• Crucial 16GB ECC Unbuffered memory (CT7982341: DDR4-2133MHz PC4-17000 ECC Unbuffered CL15 288-Pin DIMM 1.2V Dual Rank Memory Module) - Finding additional memory was a nightmare.
• 5 x Western Digital 4TB Red NAS Drives
• NZXT Source 210
• Rosewill RFT-120 fan filters. Used nylon 8-32 × ½ Phillips flat-head screws to install them.
• An old Intel 80GB SSD Drive

Ran smartctl short, conveyance, and long test with an ArchLinux ISO. Two more resources on drive testing. Ran about 10 rounds of memtest86 on the memory.

Software

• FreeNAS 11
• Followed this guide to install PiHole
• Tautulli and Plex in separate Jails.
• Time Machine for my Mac

Notes

Node Version Manager

# Install NVM
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.2/install.sh | bash

# Install gmake
pkg install gmake

# Export compilers
export CC=cc
export CXX=c++

# Install a version
nvm install v12.14.0

Mounting NTFS Drives and Copying Things

Needed to copy some media out for mum to a Micro SD card.

# See the status of loaded modules
kldstat

# Install the FUSE package for NTFS. Seemed to ship with FreeNAS 11 so
# I didn't have to do this...
pkg install fusefs-ntfs

# Load the FUSE module
kldload fuse

# Show all the disks and their partitions.
gpart show

=>       63  970563521  da2  MBR  (463G)
         63       1985       - free -  (993K)
       2048  970561536    1  ntfs  (463G)

# The "1" refers to the partition. Make sure it's formatted NTFS
file -s /dev/da2s1

# Mount it
ntfs-3g /dev/da2s1 /mnt/windows

# Unmount it
unmount /mnt/windows

rsync Issues

Would see this in a Jail with mounted volumes:

rsync: mkstemp  failed: Operation not permitted

‘Solved’ by adding --acls --no-perms to the rsync command. Don’t use --archive when dealing with custom ACLs.

Threads: 1, 2

UniFi Controller

It’s all here /usr/local/share/java/unifi