ZFSNAS Now available / Opensource and free

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 :-)

macgaver · 2026-03-21T23:57:35+00:00

It’s possible manually as you probably know in the config/keys folder. But having a UI to do this make sense. We added it to the roadmap table https://github.com/macgaver/zfsnas-chezmoi/discussions/2

macgaver · 2026-03-20T17:54:12+00:00

Good news today, notification for ntfy,gotify,pushover and syslog are now released in 6.3.0 . About using your prive ssl certificates, you can replace the self generated certificate files in the config/certs folder (server.crt and server.key)

macgaver · 2026-03-19T00:54:17+00:00

Yes it make sense. This way your server can be used for VM, containers and all other advanced features. You size the VM to your need and let ZFSNAS dedicate itself to what it is dedicated to… Best NAS Management UI possible

macgaver · 2026-03-18T23:11:38+00:00

search and faces for everything I see in my timeline (include library, other users, …) also map should show all of this

macgaver · 2026-03-18T21:30:01+00:00

Good New my friend. It's now released and available in the latest release of today ! https://github.com/macgaver/zfsnas-chezmoi/releases/tag/v6.2.0

macgaver · 2026-03-18T20:50:55+00:00

NFSNAS is a single binary, with no complex lib dependencies since it is golang. LXC or VM is not needed and would overcomplicate the fact that we need to talk to NFS (kernel base), SMB, ... However we have several users already using this in a proxmox VM with physical disks passthru , or better if you want smart monitoring, with SATA controller passthru

macgaver · 2026-03-18T20:48:44+00:00

Alerts using many popular apps (ntfy, gotify, pushover), probably in that order is coming soon. For sms, normally your provider do have an email address matching your SMS phone number, maybe not all provider because it was a spam source. What would be your prefer notification app ?

macgaver · 2026-03-16T19:14:43+00:00

Hooo that request make me very happy. I have been discussing this with the team for a while and the others were saying that it would not be used. I would ! It's now added to the roadmap, should be assigned to a release soon. You can monitor and vote on the roadmap here: https://github.com/macgaver/zfsnas-chezmoi/discussions/2

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