Is this happening?

I see the section, but I'm wondering if this is happening...FlexRAID on FreeNAS?

I'm currently giving FreeNAS a try after my mirror array of Win2003 died (both drives). Right now, I'm stuck trying to figure out how to combine 3 drives into one share...basically, I want FlexRAID-View in FreeNAS

I was trying to do it via symlinks, but I'm not having any luck navigating those from my Windows7 client. I think its a problem with SMB, but I don't know for sure.

Now that they have switched to Debian Linux, there is no reason to not have FlexRAID working under FreeNAS 8.

I would be great if users would start that investigation by installing FlexRAID on FreeNAS 8 and reporting the issues.

im just moving from a Freenas system to flexraid, and curious what is the benefit of flexraid on freenas? Or what is the goals that Flexraid is try to achive?

ausflex wrote:im just moving from a Freenas system to flexraid, and curious what is the benefit of flexraid on freenas? Or what is the goals that Flexraid is try to achive?

The original motivation was from FreeNAS's intent to move to Debian Linux.
However, FreeNAS is still on BSD driven mostly by the fact that ZFS is better ported on BSD than on Linux.

FlexRAID tries to stay away from the X vs Y whenever you can have both X and Y.
FlexRAID only provides the data pooling and protection aspects while NAS stacks like FreeNAS often provide data management and configuration features.

I can easily port FlexRAID to BSD, but that will come later.