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Yea, TrueNAS comes with a jails manager which has nothing to do with NAS. It's incredibly feature rich: https://static.ixsystems.co/uploads/2020/04/image-4.png

Yea, TrueNAS comes with a jails manager which has nothing to do with NAS. It's incredibly feature rich: https://static.ixsystems.co/uploads/2020/04/image-4.png https://static.ixsystems.co/uploads/2020/04/image-4.png Plus the setup now gets intricately coupled with the host OS. That's a big no for me. I want to treat the host OS as disposable, ephemeral and decoupled for peace of mind. The host's only job is to serve files over samba protocol and run scrub cronjobs. That's it. It gets 2 vCPUs and 24GB of ram. Stays put.

vladvasiliu 4y ago
I guess there could be an argument for the NAS part to be one of the jails. But then, the whole thing should be marketed more like "Proxmox with batteries included".
- cassianoleal 4y ago
  > the whole thing should be marketed more like "Proxmox with batteries included". It's not though. Even if you make all the "NAS software" part of the jails (or the half-baked Kubernetes in TrueNAS SCALE), it's not even close to Proxmox when it comes to managing VMs, containers/jails, firewall, networking, etc.
- KAMSPioneer 4y ago
  That's basically how SmartOS does it, as long as you're doing SMB or Samba. And boy, is it ephemeral: the entire OS is loaded into RAM from a USB stick (usually) on boot, and everything gets loaded from the zpool, as OC said, and if you need anything, you put it in a zone. Even VM hypervisor goes in a zone, because it's essentially free and gives you nice clean separation (and quotas, reservations, etc.). Though NFS can only be shared from the global zone, so if you need NFS you don't get to play with zones.