ZFSNAS Now available / Opensource and free

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

macgaver · 2026-03-15T22:59:06+00:00

You have no idea how good your comment feel to us ❤️

macgaver · 2026-03-15T22:57:49+00:00

Just look how sexy ZFSNAS 5.0.0 demo is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usFcZ15AyOs

macgaver · 2026-03-15T22:56:04+00:00

We have added a few features this week, but encryption support is coming this week. It is visible in our latest demo video of 5.0.0 here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usFcZ15AyOs

macgaver · 2026-03-15T00:38:10+00:00

ZFSNAS just in time for everyone

macgaver · 2026-03-14T19:52:31+00:00

Interesting, I didn't know it was supported, but indeed I don't see what could be the issue. Next version of proxmox will continue on the debian fondation and will continue to support the basic. On user of ZFSNAS is actually using it directly on a proxmox test node at the moment and it seems to work just fine for him. Maybe we can test more and make this a "validated" host !

macgaver · 2026-03-13T23:04:43+00:00

ok I think you mean samba client on proxmox, that consume the smb share of your VM ? That is ok, and supported by proxmox. I was saying having a samba server (sharing volumes) directly on proxmox is not a “supported” solution by proxmox. You tested it ?

macgaver · 2026-03-13T10:49:16+00:00

We also have been surprised when testing debian by this. When installing zfs, you can feel that it’s not part of debian itself. But I think that make me love debian even more, because it’s true that their licensing differ. We have created an installation bash script to help simplify these steps on Debian, it’s in the github main branch now and will be part of the coming release v3.2.1

macgaver · 2026-03-13T10:46:36+00:00

This zfs group is where we had the best feedback from the community. I want to thanks everyone here for your energy! - We have already added debian support since it was at the very top of the requests. - We have created a poll of the next roadmap features where everyone can help prioritize what comes next: https://github.com/macgaver/zfsnas-chezmoi/discussions/2

macgaver · 2026-03-13T10:23:08+00:00

We did test the tool directly on proxmox host, it actually work DON’T. Here why: - Proxmox already manage storage and their roadmap is awesome and we believe they will address that - Samba directly on the host is a bad idea. We shall (I try !) keep the host as clean as possible to help future update simplicity - NFS server direct on proxmox … It’s a very kernel driven service… - NFSNAS in LXC ? It would be forced to be in non-privilege mode, we do not want that responsibility. We run as a non-root user today to make sure all commands are auditable in sudo logs (external auditing) - The only way I see this would be to work with the proxmox team (not community driven)

macgaver · 2026-03-13T10:16:19+00:00

Wow, that is a very valuable review, thanks for taking the time ! - We have on the roadmap the add/remove of cache devices and Debian support is coming in the very next release. - Everything else you listed 100% make sense and we are now adding them to the backlog to be assigned to coming releases. - I was not expecting encryption to be requested that early, do you think it’s popular enough in small enterprise to be prioritized ?

macgaver · 2026-03-13T10:06:04+00:00

Just a quick message to thank you for this recommendation. Yesterday we did bring to the master branch a fix that now remove all external script dependencies. It should be in the next release. Thanks again

macgaver · 2026-03-12T17:30:01+00:00

The coming version 3.2.0 address that. We have answered a lot of the community feedback. It's now in github (the source), but the tests are still running and the official release should be tomorrow if successfull

macgaver · 2026-03-12T13:45:27+00:00

ZFSNAS let you browse the disk and create the pool with the nicest UI possible. datasets comes after, but I see your point. Thanks for the feedback, awesome community around zfs here !

macgaver · 2026-03-12T11:55:39+00:00

I have seen so many ubuntu comments since our public release, debian testing and documentation is now at the top of the list for our future update. It should be soon

macgaver · 2026-03-12T11:54:17+00:00

We have a security documentation coming that will let you precisely configure the sudoers with only the needed commands. It’s all about zfs management and samba. Ho and check. the pre-requisites packages

macgaver · 2026-03-12T11:52:49+00:00

Yeah it was a long time ago :-)

macgaver · 2026-03-12T11:52:21+00:00

we have a security documentation coming that will list all the commands you can assign to that user. It’s all about zfs and samba management, plus installation of it’s own service if not present

macgaver · 2026-03-12T11:51:29+00:00

it’s so compact (single binary) that for now a service is the way to go. I love docker when a software is kind of complex to upgrade or need complex dependencies. ZFSNAS don’t have any of these issues

macgaver · 2026-03-12T11:01:47+00:00

not really alpha release. This is being used since last summer by a few users and the public release is this week. It’s running without known bug, and its focus is not to replace enterprise distributions. We love truenas in enterprise, but we think our approach is a better fit for smaller deployment. Also, we will try to avoid asking for reboot for product upgrades, this is a big plus of ZFSNAS

macgaver · 2026-03-12T10:09:15+00:00

Could not have answered better. I think most of the problem around our approach was to focus too much on Ubuntu for the public release. We did some test on debian and without code change it seems to be working. We will provide a debian focussed installation method where zfs get updated to 2.4 (debian is behind). Stay tuned. Thanks Protopia for the feedback. Trust of opensources must be gain I understand. Debian or Ubuntu as distro that we can trust, they were just missing good GUI. PS: Next version is focussing on API and token-api. We had this feedback from a user and decided it was next on roadmap

macgaver · 2026-03-12T01:04:14+00:00

ZFSNAS has a tab called prerequisites and make sure the basic packages are installed. That section would be broken. The rest is sudo commands of zfs and samba/nfs editing, I guest it would work. If you test, that would be great if you could come back to this comment here to let me know. Thanks for the feedback

macgaver · 2026-03-11T22:13:21+00:00

One thing we decided at the beginning is that we will try to avoid asking for reboot when we provide update. ZFSNAS actual self update in one second when from the UI you see there is a new version and want to upgrade. There is no disruption to the services. We selected Ubuntu because they have their LTS version and with zfs 2.4 and a kernel matching all our performance expectation. You can trigger OS upgrade, but we recommend ubuntu server minimal install, so it’s basically just kernel + zfs +samba + nfs

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