Clearing the Air on the Build Script Changes - What It Means for You | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E057 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2026-09-21 | Clearing the Air on the Build Script Changes - What It Means for You | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E057
TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 Review, and Introducing TrueNAS Connect Public Beta | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E042 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-10-10 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris do a quick review of the latest 25.10-RC1 update, along with an answer to the question of "What's that new icon in the toolbar?" - introducing the public preview of TrueNAS Connect, available for use now alongside 25.10-RC1! From inventory management to custom enclosures, enhanced alerting to headless, web-driven installation - find out what Connect brings to the TrueNAS experience. They'll also tackle some viewer questions from the comments on Spotlight search, a built-in file manager, and how feasible rebootless updates might be in the future. All this and more ahead today!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7wNVIDIA Compatible Driver Test for 25.10 (Enabling GTX 10-series)forums.truenas.com/t/nvidia-compatible-driver-test-for-truenas-25-10-goldeye/53395Introducing TrueNAS Connecttruenas.com/blog/truenas-connect-open-betaSeamless Setup: Exploring TrueNAS Web-Driven Installationtruenas.com/blog/exploring-web-driven-installationChapters00:00 Intro00:16 TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 Available for Download - Let's Recap00:55 New "User Update Profiles" - Trains have Left the Station01:30 User Configuration Screen Updated - UX Improvements02:36 Networking Improvements - 400GbE NICs, NVMe-oF04:08 Virtualization - Import and Export Disk Images05:10 Virtualization Supported on Enterprise HA Systems07:19 NVIDIA Open Kernel Module - RTX Blackwell (50/PRO) Support08:45 OpenZFS 2.3.4 is in TrueNAS 25.1009:35 App Pool Migrations in the Web UI10:33 Kris and Chris's experience with 25.10 So Far11:38 What's that new Icon? Meet TrueNAS Connect12:52 TrueNAS Connect - SSL certificate and hostname13:43 Secure by Design - It's "Connect" not "Cloud"14:28 Connections stay local with direct (or VPN'd) WebSockets15:49 Multi-System View and Enhanced Alerting18:18 OAuth Only and Local Keyrings - Your Creds in Your Control19:12 Web-Driven Installs - Headless Systems without IPMI20:51 Inventory Management and Shared Access22:53 Custom Enclosure Management and Drive Identification25:03 Coming Soon - Replication Management and Control26:54 TrueNAS Connect is in Public Beta - Test it out!27:42 Question Period!28:08 Q1: Is TrueSearch like Linux "find"? - georgelza 29:11 Q2: Will ZFS replication include the TrueSearch index db? - ShawnKoppenhoefer31:15 Q3: What about Special VDEVs for the Index DB? - ajhieb33:27 Q3: Can the Index DB be copied to RAM? - ajhieb35:38 Q3: Will it be a common DB on Windows and MacOS? - ajhieb36:01 Q4: Why isn't there a TrueNAS File Manager? - wapphigh525036:48 Q5: Multi-Plane TrueNAS for rebootless updates? - wardtj39:26 Wrapping Up
Spotlight and Search Index in TrueNAS 26.04, & Viewer Questions Galore | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E041 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-09-26 | On today's TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris digs into a major feature in the upcoming TrueNAS 26.04 "Halfmoon" release - Spotlight search support for MacOS. Find out how the new "truesearch" service will work to index and catalog your files to give lightning-fast search results, in a common back-end DB, so that additional search protocols can extend the functionality in the future. Chris and Kris will also tackle a pack of viewer questions - and probably sign themselves up for a bunch more Feature Requests as a result!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:21 TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 Next Week01:09 Spotlight Search in 26.04 - MacOS Only01:44 Windows Search Protocol isn't in Samba (Yet)02:28 Wait, is there a Linux Search Protocol?03:56 Indexers and How Filesystem Searches Generally Work05:19 A Common Back-End Indexing Service "truesearch"07:14 Metadata Scraping, not Deep Machine Learning08:23 File Count will be a Large Factor for Indexing Time09:58 What About Re-Indexing and Newly Added Files?10:54 Linux inotify and Priority Queue for New Files12:36 Catching the Edge Cases and DB Cleanup/Pruning14:09 Performance Impact - Minimal CPU and RAM for 5M Files15:18 Indexing is Almost Entirely Disk Bound (IOPS)16:20 Scaling to a Billion Files and "Practical Limits"17:39 You'll Probably Want your Index DB on SSDs19:20 Who Indexes the Index? DB Structure and Sharding20:45 Folder Organization is Great, but People Expect Indexing23:00 Viewer Questions23:10 Q1: Seeing Allocated Space per VDEV, and can we show in UI? (Andrew R)25:24 Q2: ACME and SSL Cert Management with TrueNAS (Jurriaan)26:49 Q3: MinIO Clustering and OpenMaxIO in the Catalog? (George)29:44 Q4: Why do Apps use a hidden dataset? Can we change this? (chaosfenix)32:53 Q5: Observations from CORE to SCALE - Faster, More Stable (damienasmr922)
TrueNAS 25.10 RC1 brings OpenZFS 2.3.4 - New Fixes and Features | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E040 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-09-19 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 is just a few weeks from deployment, and there's a few helpful fixes since the Beta release - then Kris and Chris will dig into the big news; OpenZFS 2.3.4 is in 25.10-RC1, and despite the small version number bump, it's bringing a big list of fixes. Kris and Chris will go through some of the highlights of the release notes, and how they'll impact and benefit the performance, reliability, and features of TrueNAS. Finally, a teaser for TrueNAS 26.04 "Halfmoon" - early testing of the new MacOS Spotlight support is looking good, so if you're on the dev update train, give it a shot and let them know how it's going!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comOpenZFS 2.3.4 Release Notes:github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.4Listen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:21 TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 Coming in Just a Couple Weeks00:43 VM Disk Import and Export is Working02:26 NVMe over TCP Fixes02:58 A Bug Fix for Submitting Bug Fixes - Feedback Button03:28 Fixes for Devices with SD Card Readers05:16 GRUB Partition Fixes for 25.10 Upgrades06:42 OpenZFS 2.3.4 Lands in TrueNAS 25.1007:05 Metaslab Weight Calculation Fixes08:14 Preventing Panics - ZIL Forced Writes and Use-After-Free09:21 Changing some Block Clone Defaults10:02 More Metaslab Fixes, More Stable Performance11:15 Boot Time Checksum Benchmark Speedups - Faster Boots12:10 ARC dnode Limit Enforcement - Preventing OOMs13:09 Memory Reclaim Deadlock Fix - Don't Block, Just Skip13:50 Standardizing Constants across Processor Platforms14:18 General Linux ZFS Fixes - Writeback and 4.19 fixes15:30 Formatting Fixes for zed Daemon - Non-TrueNAS fix15:53 Allocation Fixes for High CPU counts (192 cores)16:42 Enhancements to arc_summary Metrics17:34 ZFS Rewrite for Balancing - Early Feedback Welcomed18:55 ZFS Rewrite Works when adding Special VDEVs too19:37 Obligatory Special VDEV Redundancy and Removal Notes20:24 TrueNAS 26.04 "Halfmoon" Brings MacOS Spotlight23:24 Wrapping Up - Thanks for Tuning In
TrueNAS Enterprise New VM Support & Failover Features! TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-09-18 | TrueNAS is leveling up its enterprise capabilities. Virtual machine support with failover, NVMe over Fabrics with RDMA RoCE, and streamlined failover configurations are now here. Tag a tech enthusiast who needs to know! #TrueNAS #virtualmachines #NVMe #RDMA #enterprise #failover
Move Apps Between Pools - SSD and Hard Drive Migration TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-09-18 | Curious about migrating apps to SSDs? #SSD #Apps #Migration #BindMounts #HardDrives
Simplified Storage User Creation Process Explained TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-09-18 | Many users don't want to deal with Linux or Unix admin complexities. A new approach focuses on user management with storage capabilities upfront. It simplifies creation with easy options for SMB, NFS, admin rights, and shell access, streamlining the process for practical user needs. What do you think about these upcoming changes in TrueNAS Goldeye? #storage #usermanagement #linux #unix #SMB #NFS
TrueNAS Tech Talk Beta Feedback & Upcoming Fixes! Dont Miss Out! TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-09-12 | The GoldEye Beta has over 1,000 users! Thanks to all testers for the feedback. Fixes are planned for RC1, including upgrade issues and a pool creation bug.Watch full episode on the TrueNAS Tech Talk!#GoldEye #Beta #Update #Feedback #Fixes #Tech #Software #Testing #truenas
Dont Trust AI for ZFS Tuning! Reddits Bad Advice! TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-09-11 | When tuning ZFS, blindly following AI recommendations, especially from sources like Reddit, may lead to data corruption. It's essential to critically evaluate advice and proceed with caution. Always take everything with a grain of salt. #zfs Tune in to the full discussion with Tom Lawrence! #tuning #AI #data #Reddit
Data Hoarding, AI Hype, and Wild TrueNAS Builds with Tom Lawrence | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E039 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-09-05 | Tom Lawrence joins Kris and Chris on today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk! From on-site video production in RVs to a special-interest server streaming two million images a day, come find out how Tom has leveraged TrueNAS both personally and professionally - plus, hear the team weigh in on the growing desire for data sovereignty, how open source development needs a complimentary business model, and wax eloquent (or maybe less so) about the future of AI. All this, plus the number of TrueNAS systems Tom has at home, coming up.Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:25 Welcome today's guest to T3 - Tom Lawrence01:00 Tom's Background with TrueNAS and BSD03:41 How many TrueNAS systems does Tom have at home?06:42 TrueNAS in Tom's Business Life11:50 Technically Complex TrueNAS and Tom - RailStream Build13:25 What Made it Complex? No native Dual-Actuator in TrueNAS17:58 What's Trending in the Storage World? Streaming Services22:48 Is it Quality Snobbery, or Data Sovereignty?24:40 "Not your Drives, Not your Data" is Catching On27:29 Right to Repair, Right to Own; how about Right to Access?29:30 Open Source is a Development Model, not a Business Model30:32 Mitigating Lock-In Risk with Open Source34:24 Tom's thoughts on AI - Is it a repeat of the Dot-Com Bubble?42:22 Wrapping Up - Thanks for Tuning In10BASE2 cable with a BNC T-connector from Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)Getting Smart with SMART, Questions on Dual-Path and Dual-Actuator | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E020youtube.com/watch?v=O0SsoFB9VUE?t=1113wiki.futo.org/index.php/Introduction_to_a_Self_Managed_Life:_a_13_hour_%26_28_minute_presentation_by_FUTO_software
TrueNAS 25.10 Goldeye Beta and Technical Discussion - Available Now | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E038 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-08-29 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, it's BETA Release Day! TrueNAS 25.10 "Goldeye" makes its first public appearance, and it's time for Kris and Chris to go on a technical deep-dive. From A to Z - Apps to ZFS, they'll talk about the new features and changes in Goldeye. Whether it's NVMe-oF for high-speed block storage, Access Based Enumeration for SMB sharing, or new ZFS tweaks and performance increases, Goldeye brings a lot to the table, so grab a napkin and settle in.Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comTrueNAS 25.10 "Goldeye" BETA is Availableforums.truenas.com/t/truenas-25-10-goldeye-beta-is-available-blog-post/51216Listen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:18 TrueNAS 25.10-BETA "Goldeye" Released00:51 VMs with Failover for Enterprise HA Installations01:27 Enterprise NVMe-oF with RDMA Support01:49 Community Edition gets NVMe/TCP for Improved Perfomance04:20 Updating the Update System07:54 TrueNAS Certificate Authority Role is Removed09:04 Integration with ACME certificate signing process10:05 User Screen - Less "Unix-y" and more "Storage Focused"11:33 Storage Dashboard and Dataset Widgets Reorganized11:57 ZFS scrub tasks are moving to the Storage Dashboard12:48 Apps - NVIDIA UUID Bug Squashing14:10 NVIDIA open source driver - Hardware Support Impacts17:15 Directory Services auth for FTP (for both of you using it)17:36 Virtualization - Both VNC and SPICE for VM Console18:24 Apps - Automatic App Migrations between Pools19:15 Apps - External Container Registries and Custom YAML20:08 ZFS Updates in TrueNAS 25.1020:37 ZFS Rewrite - Change Compression, Rebalance Vdevs, Defrag?23:21 ZFS - ARC and Memory Pressure Improvements24:46 VMs Migrated from "Instances" will not autostart25:25 SMB - Access Based Enumeration26:30 SMB - AutoRID idmaps will be migrated to RID on upgrade26:45 SMB - Better SMB Share Templates27:22 SMART Tests are now Integrated with Health Checks29:17 API Changes - Versioned, No more REST, now JSON-RPC30:53 Much More Responsive WebUI (thanks to the new API)31:46 Drivetemp support for better SAS/SCSI temperature reporting31:12 BETA Known Issues - Task Sorting, Errors on Invalid User Emails33:01 Virtualization - Disk Import and Export is Experimental33:53 Optional Web-Driven Install - No, It's Not A Requirement36:25 TrueNAS Downloads and Updates Blocked in Certain EU Countries38:27 Who wants to Seed a Linux ISO?39:45 Wrapping Up - So Many New Features - Help us Test!
TrueNAS on ARM Processors - Early Builds Available Now | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E037 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-08-22 | TrueNAS Tech Talk returns from hiatus with a guest star and an exciting new software build! TrueNAS user and Community member Joel May, software engineer by day, has compiled and released the first ARM developer builds for TrueNAS Fangtooth (25.04)! Find out about what enticed Joel to build TrueNAS for a completely different platform, the challenges he had along the way, and speculate on the future of ARM in the datacenter - and then, jump to the download links below to get your own (early) build of TrueNAS for ARM processors, test it out, and report how well it works for you!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comTrueNAS on ARM - Now Availableforums.truenas.com/t/truenas-on-arm-now-available/49160GitLab Source Codegit.jmay.us/truenasReport ARM bugs to Joel here:github.com/joel0-truenas/truenas-on-arm/issuesListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:37 T3 Guest - Joel May with TrueNAS on ARM01:32 Joel's Background02:26 What made an ARM variant of TrueNAS so interesting?03:40 What's Running on Joel's TrueNAS ARM System?04:40 Other ARM Software - Debian bugs, Cockpit for VMs05:39 ARM vs amd64 in the Datacenter - Is there a shift coming?09:29 Software Packages "Just Worked" when Building TrueNAS on ARM10:59 Drivers and Hardware - What Platform for TrueNAS ARM?13:05 Call for Testing - Try out TrueNAS ARM on your SBC14:13 Use Debian AARCH64 as guidance for driver support15:23 OpenZFS on ARM built without any changes16:34 Container workloads on ARM - Not Yet, But Soon?17:51 Feedback So Far - All Positive, No Bug Reports (Yet)20:18 Contributing Back to TrueNAS ARM - Code on GitHub20:39 Ready to Install ISOs - 25.04.2 available Now, 25.10 Soon?22:22 Thanks again to Joel May for building TrueNAS on ARM
ZFS AnyRaid for Mixed Drives, 25.04.2 Is Out, and Viewer Questions | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E036 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-08-01 | On this week's TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris dig into the pull request for the upcoming ZFS AnyRaid feature, which will allow mixed drive sizes to be used in a pool. Find out how "Tiles" will enable increased flexibility when building a pool, and whether or not it's the right fit for your requirements. TrueNAS 25.04.2 makes it out the door, bringing back Virtualization Classic, including Secure Boot for VMs and custom cloud-sync endpoints. Finally, viewer questions come in for admin account and space reporting challenges, as well as a long-awaited firmware flash to fix a noisy fan on a popular transcoding card.Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comAdd support for anyraid vdevsgithub.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17567Flash Intel Arc GPU Firmware in Linux - Sparkle A310 Fan Ramp Fix(Thanks to TheColin21, TheDreadPirate, and qualmtastic!)forum.jellyfin.org/t-flash-intel-arc-gpu-firmware-in-linux?pid=52180#pid52180Listen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:29 ZFS AnyRaid - Sponsored by HexOS and Klara Inc.01:11 Existing ZFS pool construction isn't very flexible02:57 AnyRaid will allow Mixed Drive Sizes in a pool03:30 Splitting Disks into "Tiles" and Logical Mirrors05:47 Dynamic Write Allocation - Balancing Across Disks06:45 Got AnyDisks? Help test out AnyRaid on spare hardware!07:24 AnyRaid won't be for EveryOne08:10 Tile Map Redundancy, Max Disk Count, Size Ratios11:15 AnyRaid is mirror-only (50% efficiency) for now13:02 AnyRaid Expansion is supported - Disk at a time14:50 Mixed drives removes a barrier to entry for TrueNAS15:53 TrueNAS 25.04.2 is Released16:26 "Virtualization Classic" Returns17:04 Will "Instances" VMs Have to Migrate Now?18:29 More Changes - MEGA support dropped for cloud sync18:58 Custom Endpoints for Cloud Sync - Region Locking19:29 Virtualization Classic gets Secure Boot with vTPMs19:51 Debugs gather more Layer 1 Network Diagnostics21:24 Q1: Mark - Admin Accounts and CORE to SCALE Upgrades23:39 Q2: John - Space Reporting isn't Accurate?25:57 Space accounting can cost a lot of time and cycles27:17 HomeAssistant in a Container? Or HAOS?29:50 Bonus: A Fan Ramp Fix for the Sparkle Arc A310 Eco?32:06 Wrapping Up - Upcoming Travel, No Show Next Week
Future Performance Boosts, LXC Clarifications, and Troubleshooting ZFS | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E035 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-07-25 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, new versions abound - 25.04.2 is next week, and 25.10 is code-freezing soon, so Kris and Chris are ready to talk about some of the performance tuning that's been happening under the hood of ZFS to push performance on high-end systems. Kris is heading to the OpenZFS Developer Summit in October; it's a great place to get involved with the real nuts and bolts of ZFS, and they talk about how everyone can help contribute to the world of open source software. There's some clarifications on Linux Containers (LXC) in 25.10, and some community troubleshooting going on for pools that won't import - learn where you can start probing the detailed ZFS debug logs to see what's going on behind the progress bar.Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comRegister to attend the OpenZFS Developer or User Summit:openzfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_SummitPrevious year's videos can be found lower down the same page.libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc:libvirt.org/drvlxc.htmlZFS Debug Messages Location (SCALE/CE)/proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dbgmsgopenzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/Troubleshooting.htmlListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:40 TrueNAS 25.04.2 - Target Date is July 29th03:36 The Focus shifts to 25.10 "Goldeye"04:04 25.10 "Code Freeze" - What's that Mean?06:30 Performance Tuning for the "High-End"06:58 There's only so fast spinning disks can go08:22 Future ZFS optimizations are focused on Flash08:47 Increased speed through faster ARC eviction?09:58 RAM speed will start to matter soon (memcpy)11:04 Cost per TB is shrinking but so are IOPS per TB11:59 Flash Drives are getting bigger - 245TB QLC NVMe drives13:26 OpenZFS Developer Summit 2025 in Portland - Oct 25-2815:40 How to Get Involved in ZFS and Open Source?17:09 You Don't need to be a Code Wizard - Reviewing Helps17:58 Test, Verify, and Reproduce Bugs for Multiple Data Points18:58 Q1: Are Containers still going to be LXC in 25.10?19:55 The container "Distro List" will get some refreshes20:55 Q2: AI Coding Feedback from George25:25 Q3: Metadata Corruption on Community builds?26:43 Where to Start Troubleshooting - ZFS Debug Messages27:29 ECC isn't a panacea - but statistically speaking ...28:38 Many times it is hardware-related29:00 You should still avoid SMR drives29:36 Does Pool Config Matter? Multiple vdevs and metadata30:19 There's common symptoms, but not a common cause30:55 Please continue tagging @HoneyBadger when this happens32:07 It's "More Frequent" - but we do have a lot more users now32:52 Linux, Hardware Choices, and hardware "Gatekeeping"35:14 Sidebar: ZFS dedup is still not magic - plan it out first!36:21 Dedup can work great "right up until it doesn't"37:58 Wrapping Up - TrueNAS 25.04.2 on July 29th
Virtualization Recap, AI Coding Comparisons, SLOG Overprovisioning | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E034 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-07-11 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris talk about the fallout of a Microsoft Active Directory update - expect a TrueNAS patch soon, and share some insights and a recap on virtualization changes; is 25.10 going to be the end for Incus in TrueNAS for now? Kris will share his thoughts on the different Agentic AI models, and some of the unique challenges with AI coding, and Chris will talk about ZFS SLOG overprovisioning methods for accelerating sync writes.Important note - There's no episode next week (July 18th) - we'll return on July 25th!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comMS Patch Tuesdayforums.truenas.com/t/windows-security-update-active-directory-domain-controllers-breaks-idmap-ad-in-winbindd/47439TrueNAS Forums "Release Notes" from Engineeringforums.truenas.com/c/release-notes/13 Image credit: Connecting rod of a Seat Arosa after Hydrolock by MichaelXXLF | CC BY-SA 3.0commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bent_connecting_rod_1.JPGSome Insights (and generalizations) on the OpenZFS Write Throttleforums.truenas.com/t/some-insights-and-generalizations-on-the-openzfs-write-throttle/1084Listen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:28 Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" Actually Matters - July 202502:24 Who's Affected? TrueNAS + Active Directory with idmap03:35 What's the Fix? New TrueNAS Patches Coming Shortly05:38 Virtualization - Is 25.10 the End of Incus in TrueNAS?07:08 "For The Record" - Functionality First, Toolset Second07:48 TrueNAS is an "Appliance" not a "Distro"08:54 Be Careful with Case-Sensitive Parameters at the CLI10:06 The Command Line is for Troubleshooting, Not Day-to-Day12:02 Car Analogy - "Diagnostics" vs "Tuning"13:20 You Can Modify - But Submit Bugs from a Clean State15:25 All This to Say - Containers Will Migrate in 25.1016:06 Virtualization Classic Recap - What's in 25.04.2 and 25.1017:20 AI Feedback and Questions - Local Hardware Limits?20:49 AI - Comparison of Agentic Code Models, What do We Like?21:14 AI Coding - Gemini Free, Code Training, Licenses?22:13 AI - Claude Code w/Opus 4 is winning (Currently)22:41 AI - Gemini Code - Logical Loops?24:04 AI - Aider - Python based, Open Source?24:48 AI - GitHub Copilot - "I see you're writing some code!"25:43 AI Coding has a Whole New Set of Challenges29:12 Overcoming the AI "Ramp Up" Time - Write Good References32:00 Time Capsule - Things Change Rapidly32:49 Jonathan - SLOG Overprovisioning and Sizing34:15 Why Isn't SLOG Overprovisioning in the webUI anymore? 36:31 Hardware Overprovisioning vs Partition vs Free Space39:08 Wrapping Up - No Show Next Week
Virtualization, Community Edition Features and Future, and Agentic AI | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E033 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-07-04 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris share a bit more on the Virtualization plans for 25.10 before diving into the raison d'etre behind Community Edition, and how Community asks are balanced against the Enterprise needs.Community users have varied hardware and lots of tuning needs - from the intel_idle driver for power savings, to experimental virtual GPU support on Intel graphics, to the upcoming NVIDIA drivers that add support for the 50-series cards while dropping the 10-series and below.Finally, it's time for another check-in on Agentic AI - is vibe coding bussin' or busted? Sound off in the comments section!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:23 Virtualization Classic - News for 25.04.2 and 25.1001:28 Virtualization in 25.10 - Classic Technology, New UI02:55 Happy July 4th + Important Safety Announcement03:39 Viewer Question on Community Edition05:45 How Community Edition benefits TrueNAS Enterprise07:28 Why do we encourage CE users to update?09:34 Community Edition Isn't Going Away11:24 Remember "Can You" is not "Should You" Juggle Chainsaws13:29 It's Easy to Ask - It's Harder (And more expensive) to Code15:28 Hardware Specific and Edge Case Requests - SR-IOV Intel GPUs?17:39 Feature Requests are Good - Working Code is Great19:12 For Kernel stuff - Build a systemd-sysext module20:57 Feedback is Crucial - Test things and tell us!21:49 NVIDIA Sunsetting Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta in 590.xx 23:22 Agentic AI - Who's using it? How are you using it?28:29 Time Capsule - Where will Agentic AI be at by Christmas?29:48 Outro
TrueNAS 25.04.2 in July, MacOS Copy Offload, Snapshots over Tailscale | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E032 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-06-27 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris get set for 25.04.2, where "Virtualization Classic" returns. They'll provide some further details to the change-over, and call out a specific non-Virtualization fix for MacOS for the Apple aficionados in the audience. Kris will hop on his soapbox about the poor bitrate of streaming video as both try to figure out why you can't just pick up a Blu-Ray easily anymore, and sort out a couple viewer questions including a fix for replicating ZFS snapshots over Tailscale!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseFix SMB server-side-copy for MacOS clientsforums.truenas.com/t/enable-mac-smb-samba-server-side-copy-support-by-default-or-provide-a-toggle-in-smb-service-advanced-options/40507ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-136449Include intel_idle Kernel Driver in TrueNAS SCALE to Improve Idle Power Efficiency on Intel CPUsforums.truenas.com/t/include-intel-idle-kernel-driver-in-truenas-scale-to-improve-idle-power-efficiency-on-intel-cpus/46426Visit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:29 TrueNAS 25.04.2 Code Freeze Complete - Targeting July 24th01:56 Notable Fix - SMB Server-Side Copy for MacOS03:33 Virtualization Changes - Feedback and Clarifications05:28 It's about Feature Sets, Not Technology Stacks08:35 Containers are staying (and staying Experimental for now)09:43 Kris's Soapbox - What happened to Physical (Movie) Media?10:34 The Suffering of Movie Picture/Audio Quality Snobs13:59 Theater Quality Streams - Business Opportunity?15:30 Video games are already eating bandwidth these days16:08 Maybe streaming providers will be forced to adapt?17:48 Viewer Q1 (George) SNMP, Flink, and MIBs in TrueNAS?20:26 Viewer Q2 (David) SSH over Tailscale - Here's the Fix!23:03 Wrapping Up
Virtualization in TrueNAS - Future Plans and Enterprise Readiness | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E031 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-06-20 | On today's TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris discuss the big question - what's going on with VMs and Containers in TrueNAS? They talk about the big changes that happened in 25.04 with Incus, the upcoming return of the classic Virtualization menu for 25.04.2, and what the plan is to achieve an Enterprise Ready virtualization solution for upcoming versions TrueNAS. There's also information on Fast Dedup and Block Cloning - what's the difference, and which one can you leverage? Finally, there's been some shakeup in the Apps Catalog, with Jellyfin rocketing up the leaderboard, Tailscale taking the crown for VPNs, and the Immich storage configuration changes. Tune in to hear more!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseTrueNAS Virtualization Plans for 25.04.2forums.truenas.com/t/truenas-virtualization-plans-for-25-04-2/46236Fast Dedup Webinar with Klara Incyoutube.com/watch?v=aEnqDSlKagEImmich Storage Location Migration - Forums and GitHubforums.truenas.com/t/immich-storage-location-is-being-deprecated-issue/45930github.com/truenas/apps/issues/893Visit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:16 VMs and Containers in TrueNAS - Feedback on 25.0402:34 Less Experimental Features and a New "Nightly" Strategy04:02 TrueNAS 25.10 Targets Enterprise Readiness for Virtualization05:39 "Virtualization" Menu is Returning in 25.04.2 and 25.1006:50 Both "Virtualization" and "Instances" Menus in 25.04.207:43 Feature Parity in "Virtualization" for 25.10 - TPM, VNC, etc08:41 What about Containers?09:55 Fast Dedup - Kris and Allan Jude's Webinar Reunion11:06 Dedup Review - Where It Works, Where It Doesn't14:21 Dedup Use Cases - Virtualization and CI/CD in Development17:45 Dedup vs Block Clone - When you KNOW you have duplicates20:42 App Marketplace News - Jellyfin rockets up the charts21:50 Tailscale for Remote Connectivity and VPN-like Tunnels25:46 Immich Storage Configuration Change28:53 Jelu for Book Indexing - Kris's (not so) Little Library30:42 Wrapping Up
Vibe Coding, MinIO Fork Fallout, and VMware Snapshot Shenanigans | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E030 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-06-13 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris find out that one line of code can make major performance improvements for parallel workloads, take a look at the fallout and forks that resulted from MinIO's code change, and Kris shares his thoughts on AI "vibe coding" and the rapid pace of change coming to Agentic programming - before wrapping up with a pair of community questions, including one with a big stack of snapshots.Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseZIL: Relax parallel write ZIOs processinggithub.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17458TrueNAS Apps - Request: Add OpenMaxIOgithub.com/truenas/apps/issues/2448Visit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:22 Quick Update - Feedback on Virtualization Changes01:37 One Line of Code - Relax ZIL Parallel Write Processing04:22 It Helps Parallel Processing - Your Mileage May Vary06:47 Bottleneck Whack-a-Mole - SLOG, Network, Pool, and back07:25 When RAM is your bottleneck, that's the "Good Problem"08:51 MinIO Fork Fallout - More S3 Apps in the Catalog12:25 Kris's Soapbox - "Vibe Coding" and Agentic AI21:16 Q1 (Another Chris) - EOL Support Dates?24:11 Q2 (Aaron) - VMware Snapshot Integration and Veeam31:06 Wrapping Up - Tune in Next Week
Fangtooth Updates, Apps Port Sharing Fix, and whats ZFS AnyRaid? | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E029 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-06-06 | Fangtooth Updates, Apps Port Sharing Fix, and what's ZFS AnyRaid? | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E029On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris talk about the latest update to Fangtooth and the Apps IP Update, including a fix that landed about thirty minutes before recording. There's a bit more news on the upcoming fall release of 25.10, and a pack of questions about potential new features for ZFS itself, including mixed SSD/HDD pools, the mixed-drive-size support of ZFS AnyRaid, and where Special VDEVs can be put to good use for small files. And while Kris might not have gotten his Switch 2 this week, he at least didn't get one with two holes in it!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseApps IP Port Validation is Fixed:github.com/truenas/apps/commit/838d605cc64020454f33f276253eca2d3ac98743TrueNAS Community Resources:forums.truenas.com/c/resources/9Visit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:16 TrueNAS 25.04.1 Update Reception02:26 Apps IP Update - Port Validation Fixed03:52 TrueNAS 25.10 Development Update - VMs and Secure Boot07:01 TrueNAS Community Forum - The Resources Section08:30 Our Docs are Open Source Too10:23 Sidebar - No Switch 2 for Kris (Yet)12:13 Nintendo Switch "2 Punctures"13:51 Viewer Question (Patrick) Incus Instance Snapshots?14:39 Q2 (Adam) ZFS Tiering and Mixed SSD/HDD Pools18:40 Q3 (KD) ZFS AnyRaid - Mixed Size Device Support Coming?21:47 Q4 (Jason) - Special VDEVs for Small Files26:00 Note on SSD Endurance and Simultaneous Failure Risk26:51 Wrapping Up - Apps Catalog Is Updated (Live!)
MinIO Forks, Plex Privacy Drama, and Last Call for 24.04 Migrations | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E028 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-05-30 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, drama is circulating in the open source and self-hosted over some changes, but Kris and Chris are happy that the latest TrueNAS 25.04.1 release isn't among it. They'll dig into what happened with the changes on the object storage software MinIO removing a huge chunk of functionality, Plex and user privacy, and share some thoughts on right-to-repair and right-to-own.Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseConsumer Rights Wiki - Right to Repair, Right to Ownhttps://consumerrights.wiki/June 1st Apps Migration Deadlinetruenas.com/blog/app-migration-deadlineTrueNAS 25.04.1 - Removing the "Updates Available" false-positive on the Dashboardtruenas.com/docs/scale/25.04/gettingstarted/scalereleasenotes/#25041-known-issuesMinIO "Simplified Console" Pull Requestgithub.com/minio/object-browser/pull/3509OpenMaxIO Object Browser:github.com/OpenMaxIO/openmaxio-object-browserPlex Opt-Out Choices:plex.tv/vendors-usRoku Forced Arbitration Agreementhttps://consumerrights.wiki/Roku,_Inc.#Post-Purchase_EULA_Modification_(Mar._2024)Visit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:23 Apps IP Addressing - Update This Weekend01:27 TrueNAS 25.04.1 - No Drama Here, Just a Cosmetic Bug03:32 MinIO and the "Min-UI" Drama05:50 We understand the Business Side - we're a business too07:30 TrueNAS Enterprise has exclusive features too09:47 A Very Open-Source Response - "OpenMaxIO" Fork10:34 Other S3 Software - Garage, SeaweedFS, VersityGW11:46 Tangential Rant - Dev Mode, TrueNAS as an "Appliance"15:58 FreeBSD vs Linux - "Hey, did you know Netflix runs BSD?"17:47 Plex, Privacy, and Selling User Data?19:40 TrueNAS and "Marketing Data"20:50 Plex Privacy Issues in 2023, and Changing to Jellyfin23:20 Bonus Round: Roku Retrospective24:30 Switch 2 Release June 5th - Will Kris call in sick? ;)26:52 Wrapping up - The Update Train is Leaving the Station!
Drop Dragonfish, Goldeye Instances Insights, a Quartet of Questions | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E027 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-05-23 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris ask "Have you updated your system yet?" The Apps IP Addressing update is going live in a little over a week on June 2nd, so make sure you're ready with TrueNAS 24.10.2.2 "Electric Eel" or 25.04 "Fangtooth" - if you're still on 24.04 "Dragonfish" it's time to make the jump to Docker before the automatic Apps migration window closes. They'll also discuss some of the major enhancements coming to the Instances page in the fall release "Goldeye", show off the new Apps and API microsites, tease an upcoming TrueNAS native Incus storage driver, and handle a quartet of questions from boot devices to file browsers.Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseTrueNAS Apps Marketplace:apps.truenas.comTrueNAS API Reference Site:api.truenas.comVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:48 Apps IP Addressing and 24.10.2.2 Update June 1st (2nd)02:55 TrueNAS 25.04.1 "Fangtooth" on May 27th04:36 Looking Ahead to Goldeye Instances Enhancements09:09 TrueNAS Apps Catalog Website14:23 TrueNAS API Reference Site18:55 Upcoming Incus Native TrueNAS Driver22:29 Kris's Linux Gaming - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Runs Great24:40 Question Time - Rapid-Fire from Greg25:57 Q1: Automatic Configuration Backups?26:39 Q2: Why is the Boot Device the Whole Disk?28:10 Q3: Remote Encryption Unlock of Datasets?29:19 Q4: Integrated File Browser in TrueNAS?30:52 Wrap Up - Update Your System, Get Ready for June 1st
One Point Release, Two Viewer Questions, and Hold the Spaces, Please | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E026 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-05-09 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris dig through some of the major updates coming to the first point release of TrueNAS Fangtooth, 25.04.1, answer viewer questions about the feature request process, and detail the one thing they'd really you rather not do when naming your pool or datasets in TrueNAS!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comSMB Multiprotocol + Apple Bug Ticketixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-135040Listen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Introduction (and Subscriber Milestone)00:51 Apps IP Addressing and 24.10.2.2 Update05:00 TrueNAS 25.04.1 Release Overview05:48 Enterprise Security and Compliance Improvements07:40 Instances - Containers and VM Updates10:32 SMB Fixes and UI Auditing Updates11:50 When Naming Things, Skip the Spacebar14:33 The Big Question - When is 25.04.1?16:19 Viewer Question (Austin) - Internal Feature Request Process?22:38 Viewer Question (RC) - Why No MAC Addresses in the WebUI?24:31 Wrapping Up - No Episode May 16th, Back on the 23rd
Apps Marketplace Goes Live, NAS-Only Systems, New ZFS Feature in Dev | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E025 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-05-02 | On today's TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris go over the latest TrueNAS update adoption, and talk about the final update for CORE 13.3 - which begs the question, can SCALE and Community Edition be a "NAS Only" solution just as well as CORE? The new Apps Marketplace launches at apps.truenas.com, and a new feature in development sprouts up in time for spring - learn more about what the 'zfs rewrite' command will do for the future of ZFS!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseTrueNAS Apps Marketplace:apps.truenas.com"zfs rewrite" GitHub Pull Requestgithub.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17246Visit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:25 TrueNAS 25.04 Usage Numbers01:48 TrueNAS CORE 13.3-U1.2 Released03:17 Is TrueNAS SCALE/CE able to be a NAS Only?09:09 TrueNAS Apps Market Website - apps.truenas.com12:31 Off The Beaten Path - Privacy and Windows Recall19:10 Who Got a Switch 2? Kris (and his kids) Did21:48 GPU Stuff - Where's the intel B310?22:54 GPU Drivers - In-Tree vs Out-of-Tree, Legacy Hardware25:35 Under Development: "ZFS Rewrite" for Vdev Rebalancing31:15 Outro
Updating our Update Page, Feedback on Apps in June, Remote Access | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E024 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-04-25 | On this week's TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris give you an update on a change to the update methodology for TrueNAS systems (which is coming in our next update) - respond to the spirited feedback about the pending Apps IP Address changes in June, with some good news for those wanting to stay on 24.10 "Electric Eel" and talk about how to safely and securely access your TrueNAS system remotely.Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseHOWTO: Host a Service privately on TrueNAS with a valid SSL Certificate forums.truenas.com/t/howto-host-a-service-privately-on-truenas-with-a-valid-ssl-certificate/15243TrueNAS Software Status:truenas.com/software-statusGitHub Pull Request for the June Apps Update:github.com/truenas/apps/pull/1550Visit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:30 We Heard You Like Updates02:16 Updating the Update Process06:26 Tester, Early Adopter, General, Conservative - Update by User Type08:06 It's Auto-Notifying, not Auto-Updating10:11 Why Wouldn't You Update?15:29 TrueNAS Apps - 24.10.2.2 Update in May19:43 Using TrueNAS Services Safely Outside Your Home21:59 Please Don't Put TrueNAS in a DMZ24:35 How Kris Does It - Tailscale, Nginx, and Cloudflare31:10 Viewer Question - Read-Only and Recursive Mounts into Incus?34:53 Viewer Question - ZFS Encryption and VM ZVOLs?39:35 Outro
TrueNAS 25.04 Released, Apps Updates June 1st, Goldeye Sneak Peek | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E023 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-04-18 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Chris and Kris talk about the first few days of the Fangtooth 25.04 update and the exciting new functionality coming to TrueNAS in this version, provide some clarification about the upcoming Apps change to allow individual IP addresses, and provide the inside scoop on some major features in development for the 25.10 release of Goldeye. Plus, the added benefits of listening to T3 include new career opportunities? Tune in to find out more!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Submit questions to t3@truenas.comDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:22 TrueNAS 25.04 Fangtooth Is Out!01:53 Please Read the Release Notes Before Updating03:00 Custom CLI Tweaks Don't Persist04:40 The CLI is a Great Troubleshooting Tool05:48 Use Post-Init Scripts06:38 Apps and IP Addressing Update08:26 June 1st - No More Automated 24.04 Migrations09:27 24.10 Users - You'll Need To Refresh Your Apps10:38 25.04 Users - No Action Needed11:53 You Don't HAVE To Update To Fangtooth By June 1st12:54 Inside Scoop - What's Coming in 25.10 "Goldeye"13:54 25.10 - Instances Getting Focus15:18 25.10 - Secure Boot and NVMe over TCP17:29 25.10 - New Update Channel Method20:00 Listening to T3 Can Get You Hired? Welcome Paul!21:09 Viewer Question - Mark on UID and GID Oddities28:59 Outro
Deep Dive into Incus and Containers in TrueNAS with Stéphane Graber | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E022 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-04-11 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris are joined by Stéphane Graber, project leader of the Incus container project, coming to the latest release of TrueNAS 25.04 this Tuesday! Join us as we dig deep into the history of the Incus container project, from its unlikely inception and first use case, the story of the LXD fork and license shift, future plans for Incus and TrueNAS, and get yourself ready for your upgrade to 25.04 starting next week!Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comWatch Stéphane's video about Incus and TrueNAS:youtube.com/watch?v=ENrQ1RWKZuIUbuntu Touch on Fairphone 2 image is CC BY-SA 4.0 Jolien Holthuis from ubports.comubports.comubuntu-touch.ioListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:30 Stéphane Graber - Founder of Incus01:24 Introductions and Background03:40 Stéphane's Linux Distro Journey05:04 Life before Incus07:33 Becoming the Master of the Ubuntu-verse09:05 The Beginning of Containers and LXC11:15 Ubuntu Phone was one of the first LXC use cases13:27 Ubuntu Phone also had proof-of-concept Snap packages?14:20 The Phone Died so that LXC and Snap Could Live15:48 Ubuntu Phone did WebApps before it was cool17:30 When did you decide to add VMs with QEMU to Incus?19:26 Incus has its own ZFS Storage Driver22:00 Building a Better Libvirt24:36 Any unique ZFS features that benefit Incus?28:15 What kind of storage is getting most used by Incus?30:02 LXD to Incus - History of the Fork?34:17 LXD Gets Moved under the Canonical Organization35:06 After the Fork36:19 Canonical Changes their License40:35 External Contributors to Incus43:46 Incus 6.0 LTS is in TrueNAS 25.04 ... What's Next?45:47 Incus is still using KVM and QEMU47:36 Future Roadmap and "IncusOS"49:15 Migrating from VMware to Incus51:09 IncusOS - An Immutable Linux Distro56:28 How can the TrueNAS Community help Collaborate?58:57 Report TrueNAS bugs to TrueNAS, Incus bugs to Incus1:02:10 Outro
Pre-Release Rumble - Fangtooth, Hotfixes, History, and Viewer Mail | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E021 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-04-04 | With the Fangtooth launch less than two weeks away, Kris and Chris bring news of a pair of hotfixes for Electric Eel and CORE 13.3. Chris shares a bit of bad news on the new Intel Battlemage discrete GPUs, Kris gives a history lesson on the move from UFS to ZFS. There's a great technical question from a viewer on recordsize and its interaction with ZFS's copy-on-write nature, and both Kris and Chris look at a Reddit users' "burning" question - is his system cooked?Check out our main channel at @TrueNAS Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comu/AnIrrationalPie - "How cooked am I?"reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/1jms4i2/how_cooked_am_iListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:30 TrueNAS 25.04 - Less than Two Weeks02:55 TrueNAS 24.10.2.1 Hotfix05:13 TrueNAS CORE 13.3 Hotfix Coming Soon08:08 Bad News for Battlemage in TrueNAS 25.0410:25 No 24GB VRAM for Kris, but Xe3 coming?11:30 TrueNAS History - Switching from UFS to ZFS12:55 Snapshots were (and still are) a game-changer15:35 Checksummed filesystems meant no corruption17:03 Features Galore - Compression, ARC, Online Disk Replacement18:15 Volume Management - No more messy partitioning21:05 Multi-Part Viewer Question - Paul on Recordsize and CoW30:23 Reddit user AnIrrationalPie: "How Cooked Am I?"34:25 Outro
Getting Smart with SMART, Questions on Dual-Path and Dual-Actuator | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E020 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-03-28 | Kris and Chris return after their week off to bring you some updates on new SMART Smarts coming to TrueNAS in this fall's 25.10 build, a new way to monitor your drive health with the Scrutiny App, and answer some viewer questions - from encryption performance, to SAS multipath, to the challenges of dual-actuator drives working with TrueNAS.Send viewer questions to t3@truenas.com and visit our main channel at @TrueNAS Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comSeagate SMART Fraud (German source):https://www.heise.de/news/Gebrauchte-Seagate-Festplatten-als-Neuware-im-Umlauf-10254276.htmlListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:44 Fangtooth 25.04 Update03:36 Getting Smart with SMART - Changes in 25.1004:19 ICYMI - Watch out for faked SMART Data06:57 Scrutiny App for UI-based SMART Monitoring08:38 Temperature Monitoring through Kernel10:53 Q1 (Phillipe) - Encryption performance on SCALE vs CORE?13:41 Q2 (Paul) - SAS Multipath, Where Did It Go?18:33 Q3 (Phillipe) - Dual-Actuator Drives?24:53 Wrapping up
Fangtooth RC1 Impressions, Incus Updates, Crypto Predictions and More | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E019 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-03-14 | On today's Pi Day episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris check in on the freshly-released Fangtooth RC1, dig into some very fresh commit for upcoming Incus features in 25.04 Release. Kris opines on the future of cryptocurrency and encryption as they relate to quantum computing, and both Chris and Kris pick off another pair of viewer questions.Note: There will be no T3 episode on March 21st - we'll be back on March 28th!Send viewer questions to t3@truenas.com and visit our main channel at @TrueNAS Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionCheck out TrueNAS Enterprise appliances:truenas.com/truenas-enterpriseVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comListen to T3 on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7wBitcoin energy usage from "Tracking electricity consumption from U.S. cryptocurrency mining operations"eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=6136400:00 Intro01:24 TrueNAS 25.04-RC1 First Impressions02:40 25.04 Release is April 15th (ish)04:00 On SCALE and "Extra Features"05:36 More Incus Features coming to 25.04.0 Release08:24 Crypto and Quantum Computing - Predictions?15:21 Wait, Isn't StorJ Crypto?20:15 Viewer Questions20:32 Q1 (George) - RAIDZ Expansion, What About RAIDZ Shrinking?24:24 Q1 Cont - Oh great, now you've given Chris an Idea ...26:03 Q2 (Nicholas) - Why Docker over Podman in TrueNAS?29:35 One Hour Episodes?31:16 No Episode April 21st
Fangtooth RC1 on Tuesday, Docker vs LXC vs VMs, More Viewer Questions | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E018 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-03-07 | Kris and Chris are back from some travel to bring you another episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk! On today's episode, RC1 will be launching next week, we’ll dig deeper into the containers vs VMs discussion from last week, and answer a couple of viewer questions we received this week on Incus data backup and how to change the compression algorithm on existing data.Send viewer questions to t3@truenas.com and visit our main channel at @TrueNAS Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comTrueNAS Software Status Page:truenas.com/software-statusCheck us out on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro00:48 TrueNAS 25.04-RC1 Available March 11, 202501:35 iSCSI Boot in Incus VMs03:14 Important PSA - App Migration from Dragonfish Ending June 105:16 Software Status and a 25.10 Teaser05:48 Docker vs LXC vs VMs07:00 Docker - Powering the Apps Catalog10:45 LXC - Linux Containers for Power Users16:10 KVM - Full Virtualization, Full Customization16:29 A Brief Aside - Home Assistant (HAOS) in a VM18:13 Back to more general KVM Discussion20:42 Viewer Questions21:00 Q1 (Flo) - Backing up Incus Disks in Fangtooth22:16 Q2 (Jason) - Compression and How To Change It25:38 ZSTD Adaptive Compression and "Early Abort"29:19 Outro
Captain Stux on the Bridge - Docker, Containers, Incus, and Much More | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E017 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-02-28 | Today's very special episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk brings the inimitable Stuart Espey, better known as @CaptStux of YouTube and TrueNAS Forum fame! Come find out what brought him and his company to TrueNAS back when it was still FreeNAS, his adventures with compute workloads on TrueNAS from jails to bhyve, all the way through to the latest Incus and LXC containerization, and hear about his most desired TrueNAS features from minor tweaks to massive overhauls.Follow Captain Stux on YouTube:youtube.com/@CaptStuxX10SDV and Node 304 Build Report:truenas.com/community/threads/build-report-node-304-x10sdv-tln4f-esxi-freenas-aio.57116Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystemsarstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystemsDownload TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comCheck us out on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 Intro - Welcome Captain Stux!00:39 What Brought Captain Stux to TrueNAS?03:36 Using TrueNAS for Compute Nodes08:38 The Transition to Docker - How did Stux do it?10:36 What started the Captain Stux YouTube voyage?12:04 It's a Lot of Effort to make the How To Videos13:08 Incus and LXC15:20 Containers Help Remove Storage Bottlenecks17:20 Containers avoid Unnecessary Caching18:30 Where do VMs fit into your use case?20:30 Containers vs Docker - subtle differences23:21 Could "Incus Compose" be a thing?24:19 Captain Stux's TrueNAS Wish List24:57 The Small Stuff - Docker Networks, iXvolume Migration27:32 The Middle Ground - Incus-powered VM Improvements28:24 Dreaming Big - TrueNAS Hypervisor, Clustered ZFS30:12 A TrueNAS SDK Image?31:54 Wrapping Up - Vote for Feature Requests!
Fangtooth RC1 Soon, Appliance vs Distro, Just How Bad is a Full Pool? | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E016 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-02-21 | On episode 16 of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Fangtooth gets a code freeze and a release date for RC1, explain how TrueNAS as an "Appliance" makes it different from a regular Linux or BSD "Distro", answer a couple of viewer questions about the most challenging bits of code to develop (in the past, and the future!) and ask the question of just how bad it can be to let your pool get close to, or even completely full?Send viewer questions to t3@truenas.com and visit our main channel at @TrueNAS Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comCheck us out on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/50CEMeSmQzaMqBt4Uo8u7w00:00 INTRO00:43 Fangtooth (TrueNAS 25.04) RC1 Code Freeze02:20 Incus Updates - PCIe Passthrough, Disk Controller Options04:30 Apps Catalog and Individual IP Addressing (June)07:00 Kris's Soapbox: TrueNAS is an "Appliance" not a "Distro"09:16 TrueNAS runs a customized kernel (even on BSD!)10:13 [Obligatory Car Metaphor]12:43 SMB and Samba Auxiliary Parameters14:27 Submit Feature Requests for Desired Tweaks18:00 Teaser - Upcoming Guest, Apps vs VM vs Instances18:48 Q1 (@chrismierzwinski1398) - Most Challenging Features?21:20 Q1.1 Future Features - Speculate in the comments!24:00 Q2 (John) - Just How Bad Is Low Free Space?27:56 Q2.1 - Reaching 100% is Very Bad News30:11 Outro - We're on Spotify now + 1000 Subs
Fangtooth 25.04 BETA is Out, Backup Bonanza, and Special VDEV Sizing | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E015 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-02-14 | On this Valentine's Day episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris discuss the recently-released TrueNAS 25.04 Fangtooth BETA (available now!), explain some of the differences between the various methods of backup in TrueNAS, from file to S3 to replication (RAID is not a backup!) and tackle a couple of viewer questions, from the base distro choice to a breakdown of Special VDEVs, from sizing to redundancy to small file allocations.Send viewer questions to t3@truenas.com and visit our main channel at @TrueNAS Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comTrueCloud Backup powered by Restic and Storj:truenas.com/docs/scale/24.10/scaletutorials/dataprotection/truecloudtasksSpecial VDEV (sVDEV) Planning, Sizing, and Considerationsforums.truenas.com/t/special-vdev-svdev-planning-sizing-and-considerations/508600:00 Intro00:49 Fangtooth (TrueNAS 25.04) BETA1 is out now04:01 Backup Methods in TrueNAS - File, S3, ZFS Replication05:33 File Backups with rsync06:51 File Backups to S3 with rclone07:37 File Backups to Storj with restic11:11 ZFS Replication - Faster than File, but with Caveats14:10 A Note on Encryption and Replication15:42 Bonus Round: SyncThing App17:25 Viewer Questions17:35 Q1 (Paul) - History of TrueNAS and why we chose Debian?21:46 Q2 (Jason) - Special VDEVs, Metadata Overhead, Redundancy23:41 Special VDEVs are critical to pool health - Mirror them!24:58 Generalizations on Metadata Size - 0.1% - 1GB per TB28:29 Warning: If You Use RAIDZ, You Can't Remove sVDEVs29:02 Special Small Blocks (Hey, we didn't START here)30:57 ZFS Metadata Is Not Always Application Metadata32:45 Outro
Fangtooth BETA1 Soon, ZFS Replication Push vs Pull, & Viewer Questions | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E014 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-02-07 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris talk about the Fangtooth BETA1 coming out in less than a week, dig into ZFS Replication and using the Pull method instead of Push for added security, and answer viewer questions about APIs, NVMe-oF, eMMC boot devices, and small form-factor GPUs to tuck into your TrueNAS Mini to enhance your video transcoding power. All this and more today on TrueNAS Tech Talk!Submit questions (more!) and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionVisit the TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comTrueNAS Forums - Installing on UGREEN DXP2800forums.truenas.com/t/actual-installs-on-ugreen-hardware-observations-experiences-tips/6910NVIDIA Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrixdeveloper.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new(NVIDIA) Plex Media Server Hardware Transcoding Cheat Sheet elpamsoft.com/?p=Plex-Hardware-TranscodingMedia Capabilities Supported by Intel Hardwareintel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/onevpl/developer-reference-media-intel-hardware/1-1/overview.html00:00 Intro00:59 Fangtooth BETA1 on February 13th02:03 Direct IO not available in 25.04-BETA04:39 Incus Powered VM Page - ZVOL Imports, but no PCIe Passthrough Yet06:57 ZFS Replication - Push vs Pull and Security Implications13:10 Viewer Question 1: Ondrej - REST API vs JSON-RPC17:20 Viewer Question 2: Andrew - Future NVMe-oF Support?19:28 Viewer Question 3: Martin - Boot Devices, eMMC and the UGREEN DXP280024:38 Viewer Question 4: John - DIY vs Mini, Good GPUs for Transcode in Minis?28:40 Outro and Next Episode Teaser
New AI Development, Viewer Questions on L2ARC, and can TrueNAS come to ARM? | TrueNAS Tech Talk E013 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-01-31 | Kris and Chris are back with your weekly update! Tune in today to hear about the latest release of TrueNAS 24.10.2, the upcoming 25.04 Beta release and the Incus VM progress, and Kris answers one of the most frequently asked questions - can TrueNAS come to ARM platforms? There's new AI developments, and Chris explains the concerns over L2ARC that are so commonly heard in the forums.Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionTrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comDeepseek AI Github (MIT Licensed):github.com/deepseek-ai00:00 Intro00:24 24.10.2 Release Update02:46 25.04 Update - BETA Soon(TM) with new Incus VM Features07:00 Did anyone manage to buy a 50-series?08:00 Talking about AI10:52 Viewer Question: ARC, L2ARC, and Minimum RAM?11:55 The "Minimum" System Requirements - It's a Minimum15:08 L2ARC Overhead and How Does It Fill18:42 More RAM or add an SSD?20:28 TrueNAS on ARM23:32 Low-power x86 has come a LONG way27:57 Outro
Fangtooth BETA Code Freeze, Compression Comparison, Kris talks BSD vs GPL | TrueNAS Tech Talk E012 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-01-24 | In TrueNAS Tech Talk Episode 12, Fangtooth BETA1 is code-frozen and preparing for February, Chris Compares Compression, and Kris gets on his soapbox to talk about the world of open source licensing, BSD vs GPL, and sheds a little more light on why TrueNAS went even more open source than before.Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionTrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comOpen Source Licenses:opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clauseopensource.org/license/gpl-3-0opensource.org/license/mit-0Open Source Software used in PlayStation 4playstation.com/en-us/oss/ps400:00 Intro00:35 Fangtooth BETA1 Code Freeze03:49 Compression and Space Savings05:05 Algorithm Chart - LZ4 vs ZSTD06:00 Compression - be aware of diminishing returns07:00 Why isn't ZSTD the default?07:20 LZ4 "early abort" and ZSTD "early abort" development 08:00 When shouldn't you use compression?08:52 What about Block Cloning?10:00 Kris's Soapbox: BSD vs GPL Licensing10:59 The BSD License in 60 Seconds12:40 The GPL License in ... 15:27 Kris's Views on Licensing22:23 TrueNAS switched from BSD to GPL25:16 Viewer Question - Incus VMs and Upgrading, What's the Plan?27:36 Outro
OpenZFS 2.3, UX Engineer Damian Szidiropulosz, and Gaming on TrueNAS? | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E011 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-01-18 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris welcome their first guest, TrueNAS UX Engineer Damian Szidiropulosz. OpenZFS 2.3 is released, Damian dishes about building on UI and UX design feedback from the Community, and we dig into GPU passthrough for running games directly on your TrueNAS system, even VR titles!Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionTrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comOpenZFS 2.3 Released:github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.0ASRockRack PAUL IPMI PCIe card:asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=PAULSilverstone RM52 NAS case:silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/server-nas/rm52Steam link image by Dootnet325 - (CC BY-SA 4.0)commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65489961Steam-Headless:github.com/truenas/apps/pull/138000:00 Intro00:24 OpenZFS 2.3 Officially Released00:48 RAIDZ Expansion01:55 Fast Deduplication (non-Experimental)03:42 Direct IO for NVMe04:55 JSON formatted output for ZFS commands06:23 Guest - Damian Szidiropulosz (UX Engineer)09:51 Submitting Feedback12:18 Tools for UX Design13:31 PenPot14:37 Wireframes vs Mockups and Rapid Design17:13 Gaming with GPU Passthrough on TrueNAS21:12 Hardware Choices for a TrueNAS Game System23:45 Remote Management - IPMI on a Gaming Board?25:20 AMD Reset Bug26:23 IPMI - Front Panel Pin Challenges30:21 So What's Damian Playing? VR on TrueNAS35:16 Steam in a Docker on TrueNAS37:46 Outro
TrueNAS Community Edition Questions, Incus VMs, Linux Gaming in 2025 | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E010 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-01-10 | The tenth episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk brings the formal announcement of TrueNAS Community Edition - Kris and Chris talk about what it is and isn't, new Incus VM features landing in the Fangtooth 25.04 Nightly images, and distract themselves with shiny new gaming hardware announced at CES 2025. Last but not least - will 2025 be the Year of the Linux (Gaming) Desktop? Tune in to find out their thoughts!Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionTrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comSubmit Feature Requests:forums.truenas.com/c/features/1200:00 Intro01:21 "TrueNAS Community Edition"03:40 Is this a new version?05:36 Is this the end of FreeBSD?08:18 What about my favorite CORE feature?10:59 A Brief Intermission: CES and New Hardware14:44 Fangtooth - New Incus VM Changes in Nightly21:02 The Year of the Linux (Gaming) Desktop28:22 Outro
To Swap or Not To Swap | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E009 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2025-01-03 | Back for 2025, TrueNAS Tech Talk opens the year with a discussion about swap usage on TrueNAS (and why it isn't a default anymore) as well as a quick update on the 24.10.1 release adoption.Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionTrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comChapters00:00 Intro00:40 24.10.1 Update03:00 Community Apps05:00 A History of Swap09:00 Swap Off and Why15:36 Catching Faults Faster and Fixing OOMs18:19 New Year, New Topics, New TrueNAS?19:50 Outro
Year In Review, SLOG sizing and the 80% Rule, 25.04 Incus/LXC Preview | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E008 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2024-12-20 | In the last TrueNAS Tech Talk of 2024, Kris and Chris bust a few more myths about SLOG sizing, the famous "80% Rule" about free space in ZFS and TrueNAS, talk about the progress of TrueNAS in 2024 and do a live demo of an exciting new feature to look forward in 2025 - Incus/LXC Linux Container support, coming out in TrueNAS 25.04!Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionTrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comSome Insights (and generalizations) on the OpenZFS Write Throttleforums.truenas.com/t/some-insights-and-generalizations-on-the-openzfs-write-throttle/1084CHAPTERS0:00 Intro1:15 TrueNAS 24.10.1 Releases5:37 Myth Busting - SLOG and "Making Writes Faster"9:21 Myth Busting 2 - SLOG Sizing and Tuning Pending Writes10:15 Tuning is System Specific - Don't just Copy and Paste11:50 "The 80% Rule" - Free Space and ZFS14:37 "The 100% Rule" - This one actually exists15:02 A Word on Deletion and Snapshots15:56 2024 Year in Review17:26 2025 Preview - Fangtooth19:48 Incus Container Demo23:25 Docker, Incus, VMs - Which to use29:40 Outro - See you next year!
ECC vs Non-ECC RAM for TrueNAS | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E007 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2024-12-13 | In this head-to-head episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris discuss the burning question of decades of TrueNAS users - "ECC or Non-ECC?" Myths will be busted, lines will be drawn, and we'll talk about just how deep the ECC rabbit hole can go.Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc Download TrueNAS for yourself:truenas.com/truenas-community-editionTrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.comRead up on systemd-sysext:manpages.debian.org/testing/systemd/systemd-sysext.8.en.htmlMatthew Ahrens:arstechnica.com/civis/threads/ars-walkthrough-using-the-zfs-next-gen-filesystem-on-linux.1235679/page-4#post-26303271ProtonDB:protondb.comCHAPTERS0:00 Intro0:55 Quick Update on 24.10.13:30 ECC vs Non-ECC - Poll Results4:20 A Little Mythbusting5:00 Kris - Why non-ECC?9:18 ZFS w/o ECC or non-ZFS w/ECC?10:15 Risk Assessment10:48 Chris - Why ECC?15:54 The Famous Matthew Ahrens Quote16:58 It's ECC All The Way Down17:48 RAID IS NOT A BACKUP19:30 Kris Switches to Linux for Gaming26:16 Wrapping Up and Reaching Out
HexOS, RAIDZ Expansion, New GPUs, and A Brief History of TrueNAS | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E006 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2024-12-06 | Back from their break, Kris and Chris are here with another episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk. Today it's about the HexOS launch, an upcoming improvement to RAIDZ expansion speeds, support for the new Intel Battlemage GPUs, and a history lesson on OpenZFS through the ages from its Solaris origins, through FreeBSD, and how TrueNAS chose Linux for the basis of SCALE.The age-old question "ECC or non-ECC" is on the table for next week - make your opinion known in the comments below and vote in the forum poll:ECC memory vs Non-ECC memoryforums.truenas.com/t/ecc-memory-vs-non-ecc-memory-poll/26697Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc Optimize RAIDZ expansion:github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/16819Intel Launches Arc B-Series Graphics Cards:intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-launches-arc-b-series-graphics-cards.htmlTrueNAS 25.04 (Fangtooth) Nightly Builds:download.truenas.com/truenas-scale-fangtooth-nightlyIncus POC in 25.04:forums.truenas.com/t/linux-jails-containers-vms-with-incus-poc/23599TrueNAS Community Forums:forums.truenas.com
Cache Rules Everything Around Me - November 22, 2024 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2024-11-22 | Today, Kris and Chris talk about an important security update for TrueNAS CORE, talk about the use of SSDs as an L2ARC (read cache) or SLOG (write log), correct an important command used for scripted shutdowns, and talk about some of the features in development for TrueNAS 25.04 (Fangtooth)To safely shut down your TrueNAS system from a script or shell, use:"midclt call system.shutdown"T3 will be taking a brief break for the Thanksgiving holiday - we'll be back on December 6th. Subscribe to the channel so you'll be ready to catch up as soon as we return!Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc
TrueNAS Community Edition? - November 15, 2024 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2024-11-15 | On the fourth episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3), Kris and Chris talk about the upcoming TrueNAS branding of "Community" and "Enterprise" Editions, why new hardware is not always the best hardware, the release cadence and codenames for the next three versions of TrueNAS, and talk about upgrading older TrueNAS Mini units to the latest software release.Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc
TrueNAS as a VM? - November 8, 2024 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2024-11-08 | On today's episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3), Kris Moore (SVP of Engineering for TrueNAS) and Chris Peredun (aka "HoneyBadger") spot a nearly ten-year-old FreeNAS installation, talk about one of the major challenges with installing TrueNAS as a VM, and share some of the news about new Apps and coming improvements to the framework in preparation for even more Apps to be added.Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com and visit our other channels at @TrueNAS and @iXsystemsInc
RAIDZ expansion and more! - November 1, 2024 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2024-11-01 | On the second episode of the TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) video podcast, Kris Moore (SVP of Engineering for TrueNAS) and Chris Peredun (aka "HoneyBadger") talk about the official release of TrueNAS SCALE 24.10.0 "Electric Eel", RAIDZ Expansion and free-space reporting challenges, and how to make feature requests for upcoming TrueNAS releases - as well as answer a viewer's question about the decision to start with Kubernetes and make the leap to Docker.Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com
The Journey Begins! - October 25, 2024 TrueNAS Tech Talk - T3 2024-10-25 | Kris Moore (Former BSDNow Co-Host) and Chris Peredun (The TrueNAS HoneyBadger) kick off the inaugural TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3), a video podcast for talk and tidbits about the state of TrueNAS, answering user questions, and talking about other technical topics that are of interest to the storage industry and technology in general.Today, Kris and Chris talk about the upcoming release of TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 "Electric Eel", a new feature just merged in the next version "Fangtooth" and responsible LLM use when learning about ZFS and TrueNAS.Submit questions and inquiries to t3@truenas.com
