RealNAS (realnas.io)

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willyvmm

Hi.

I'm slowly looking to upgrade my home nas. The XigmaNas seems to be abandoned, TrueNAS abandoned FreeBSD ... so i found a projest called RealNas RealNAS
Looks good, and seems like it's exactly what i need.
The Manual page states:

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Ok. FreeBSD 15.x fair enough. (dont have any live 15.x righ now, but it's not an issue)

And there the oddity starts:

- No sigle link on the webside.
- FreshPorts doesn't known anything about RealNas
- Github search engine dont known anything like that.

How can i test it?
Did i miss something? (very likely)

Any idea?
 
Interesting I will have to take a better look. I will throw in this one as well https://bsdnas.com/ it impressed me much more than other forks as someone who worked on truenas previously. Though I’ll admit I haven’t installed it I just looked over the code and it looked very clean and I could tell they found their way around the build system and seemed to have a strong background in sysadmin. You can be a good developer all you want but from my experience when TrueNAS was best it had people with strong sysadmin experience behind it. Making a fiber channel feature for example only goes so far unless you actually understand how things should work. Otherwise you’re just going to annoy the people testing it.
 
From their Donate page: RealNAS is built by one maintainer in the open.
Also check out their Roadmap page: RealNAS is forked from zVault (the community continuation of TrueNAS CORE) and is becoming a FreeBSD-native NAS manager that runs on vanilla FreeBSD instead of an appliance OS. The decoupling is in its final phase, and the 1.0 release will close the last blockers.

Seems aspirational so far (perhaps donations will help it become real sooner). You can ask legal@realnas.io

Perhaps FreeBSD foundation should support creating a set of middleware packages....
 
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