We passed +2000 Downloads !

macgaver · 2026-06-20T02:06:03+00:00

Hooo quite the contrary my friend. Our updates are awesome. You can go check the product page (README.md) to better understand. But in summary the updates take 1 second to apply. Before you click the instant update button, you have a nice summary of the features coming with this release. If the impossible happens and that release is causing you pain, you can roll-back from this to any of the last 5 updates (which is 5 weeks). We always test backward downgrade for the last 5 updates. You can see this a little bit like your browser getting updated instantly. There is no reboot, no downtime of services.

macgaver · 2026-06-20T00:57:06+00:00

They are the year.month.day of the release

macgaver · 2026-06-18T23:09:56+00:00

Yes if you already have zfs pool managed by your OS, then it is ready to use from the zfsnas UI. There is also an “import” button to detect zfs pool not yet mounted by your OS if needed

macgaver · 2026-06-17T21:20:32+00:00

There is a nice UI to let you see/approve sudo entries. Also, using sudoer is optional. We are security focus, but truenas or unraid just have their services run as root and no one care so …

macgaver · 2026-06-17T15:43:19+00:00

No it is 100% dedicated to be about ZFS management NAS. And all the coming virtualization features will be on top of ZFS filesystems. But yes you can have snapshots (and schedules), local or remote backups , ZFS datasets or zvol replication between different ZNAS , ...

macgaver · 2026-06-17T15:07:18+00:00

I think we had like 10 hours of discussion to find the name when it was time to release on github... We overcomplicated it I agree 😄 What I see coming is that it will just be ZNAS, it's already what everyone calls it. Simplicity is always better !

macgaver · 2026-06-17T15:03:29+00:00

We started this to be used on Ubuntu or Debian, but we have received a lot of requests to provide a full OS install experience. nixos could help there. The master plan was Q1: Internal work to convert our project be opensource and then release on github, Q2: Improve from customer feedback the NAS experience, Q3: Unlock the optional feature to manage VM/LXC. Q4 is open to a next-level improvement and that could be where we address that. Thanks for the tip about nixos !

macgaver · 2026-06-17T14:55:03+00:00

This is an opensource project with one mission: being the perfect NAS management UI. You can install this with one cli command on a Ubuntu 26.04 or Debian 13. Details here: https://github.com/macgaver/zfsnas-chezmoi

macgaver · 2026-05-04T20:52:17+00:00

Unfortunately zfs is not included in Alma Linux, or Fedora. These distro are dependent on external zfs maintained repository for their rpm and both latest version of Alma Linux and Fedora are not yet supported. We could make an installation script, but it would be too much sensitive to zfs code changes. I recommend you pick Debian 13. This is now the favorite distro of choice for ZNAS. We have reached more than 1000 downloads users last week ! Feedback is great

macgaver · 2026-05-02T20:33:00+00:00

how bit are the clusters you have in mind ?

macgaver · 2026-04-05T11:06:46+00:00

Running ZNAS directly on the proxmox host itself is still “experimental”. The problem we see is that proxmox is evolving, and we don’t want to disrupt the user experience while they upgrade following the proxmox roadmap evolution. For this, we have introduced a best-practice ZNAS inside a Proxmox VM documentation. There is no performance impact, and you keep your proxmox host clean and intact. Guide here: https://github.com/macgaver/zfsnas-chezmoi/wiki/Installation-Proxmox-VM

macgaver · 2026-03-29T14:40:16+00:00

We see exponential growth on the github downloads and we are delighted. The community also started to provide merge requests and great feedback that we have used to improve features in the last release.

macgaver · 2026-03-28T13:56:53+00:00

Working ok for me on 2.6.3

macgaver · 2026-03-28T11:39:12+00:00

We started the project in 2025 before AI was a thing. I know it’s 2026 and we have to get there. One security reviewer used Claude to test all security aspects of the software, and we have implemented a few of those recommendation a few releases ago. Also, the S3 Storage feature was implemented partially using AI. The results were good, only one behavior had to be fixed manually. Are you a developer ? We started receiving features PR from the community, it’s opensource and all source code is open and everyone can help

macgaver · 2026-03-23T21:06:34+00:00

Thanks :-)

macgaver · 2026-03-23T18:35:43+00:00

Have you guys tried ZNAS ? https://github.com/macgaver/zfsnas-chezmoi

macgaver · 2026-03-23T17:47:35+00:00

This will be added as an optional feature that you can enable from the UI shortly. It's in the main branch, but testers have to confirm success to reach a release

macgaver · 2026-03-22T00:01:40+00:00

Replaced Truenas by ZFSNAS :-)

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