Für einen Initialen Test des alten Thecus 4200 Eco werden es die alten 500er Satas bestimmt noch tun. #truenascore auf alter Hardware, der d525 mit 8gb RAM ist keine Rakete, aber 4bay Wechselrahmen wachsen nicht auf Bäumen. Die Security Keys backen dauert jedenfalls schon Mal ne Weile 🤣

Motto: lieber offsite mit alter Hardware als kein offsite.

In some hidden place there is an interesting update on zvault.io.

https://github.com/zvaultio/Community/blob/main/posts/2025-07-13.md

#zvault #TrueNASCore #freenas
https://zvault.io/

TrueNAS Core is dead and replaced by TrueNAS Scale based on Linux. I had experimented with zfs on linux before and have mixed feelings..
Anyone tried the core fork zvault?
#truenas #freebsd #truenascore

https://www.zvault.io/

Switched the OS on my #NAS from #TrueNASCore to #TrueNASSCALE last night 😶‍🌫️
The first is based on #freeBSD, the latter is #Debian based.

The reason: After updating #jellyfin I had run into a dead end due to conflicting versions between jellyfin itself and freeBSD's cage version (cages are their wording for containers)

Also because the plugin system of trueNAS Core is considered dead. It therefore required a lot of manual intervention which I was not happy with since I'm not familiar with freeBSD (I shouldn't have picked it in the first place 😵 Lesson learnt)

So after hours of trying to fix this shit, I just decided to replace the OS. I just prayed that the zfs encryption key would work after installing the new OS, since I have never gone through the process of importing an encrypted zfs pool before, but it was all super straightforward and nothing was lost 🤘🏾 the trueNAS Scale web gui definitely gives the impression of it being superior than Core 😄

Jellyfin is up and running 🥰 everything works the way it worked the day before, and I think I'm a lot happier with trueNAS Scale than I was with Core 🤓 Had a few learnings while solving this quest ✌🏾

I run huo-ju's excellent port of @photoprism on FreeBSD to manage my family's complete library of pictures (~25K):
https://github.com/huo-ju/photoprism-freebsd-port

But performance on some DB operations was lacking: simply adding photos to albums took ~5-10s to complete. So I decided to take a look at what I could do.

Turns out all I needed was to migrate the DB from SQLite to MariaDB.

And I documented my process on a blog post:
https://tinsuke.wordpress.com/2024/05/29/how-to-migrate-photoprism-db-from-sqlite-to-mariadb-on-freebsd/

#PhotoPrism #FreeBSD #TrueNASCore #MariaDB #SQLite