yeah i see what you are saying
@PigLover but i still dont see anywhere where it says freenas corral is dead so i dont understand what u meant with evolving language.
There's a lot of spin in that post by Kris. I mean "lack of feature parity with 9.10 (Jails, iSCSI, etc)," You're kidding me right? Google FreeBSD Jails versus Docker and see what the difference is in resources and adoption. Jails had like 14 plugins? Hub.docker.com has what? Hundreds of thousands supported by their organizations?
Here's the next one:
The quicker path to a properly stable and enterprise-worthy Corral is to rebase upon the solid FreeNAS 9.10 code, bringing some of the new features that the current FreeNAS Corral offers into a more mature and solid platform. This process has already begun with the inclusion of VM container support and a brand-new Angular-based UI which is already available in the 9.10 nightlies (more on this below).
"Some of the new features" not all and in the nightly. So as of today, FreeNAS does not have a stable release with bhyve, Docker, or a responsive UI. The async jobs were also a feature I really liked. If you had bigger arrays efficiency gains from that system were big time.
There's the OLD feeling 9.10 which is really long in the tooth.
There's the nightly build with a new UI. What I'm confused about is the timing. They are announcing the change today, and they already have AngularJS working? Didn't the Corral UI take over 6 months to do? I'm reading either that it was an easier conversion than they said previously and therefore there's more going on in Corral than they let on OR they released Corral already knowing that the rewrite was happening and so why release it. This might be why a lot of us lost a lot of trust and faith in the FreeNAS team. Something with the timing seems off.
There's a "Tech Preview" Corral that's been out for a month BUT stuff like the middleware seems not mentioned. Either way, not importable.
So if you've been using new Corral features you're marooned subject to retreat to a 9.10 that I think most of us would have been happy to ditch.
They may call it Corral but here are the three operative parts I'm reading:
“This also means it is unlikely you will be able to migrate configuration settings from Corral -> the next FreeNAS Corral product (however, your data will always be importable).”
That means whatever you built in Corral isn't migratable. That's basically a translation for a rewrite. It's a life your ZFS pools and bring them back.
Reading responses here, I think the largest issue is that the FreeNAS team has lost community trust. I spent hours setting up users, permissions, learning how Corral work and then deciding to put services on what they called a "stable" platform, until now it isn't.
Maybe it's time to ditch FreeNAS?
I know napp-it guys love solarish but if someone added ZFS to OMV or melded napp-it for Proxmox or even just did FreeNAS on Ubuntu ZFS, that's it. No more FreeNAS.