Migrate TrueNAS Core to Sylve
For years I ran TrueNAS Core on my home fileserver. This was an awesome, easy way of running FreeBSD + ZFS + tools without a lot of manual maintenance. Unfortunately TrueNAS decided to start using Linux as the basis of TrueNAS and I love using FreeBSD. Fortunately a new project is on the horizon which looks promising: Sylve I'm eager to try out Sylve and will write down my plan and the results in this blog. Some useful facts TrueNAS Core installs full images containing the OS, middleware and UI. The last version was based on FreeBSD 13.3 and uses Boot Environments to manage versions. Sylve wants FreeBSD 15.0 or later pre-installed and only installs middleware and UI on top of it. I use my NAS mainly for Samba (Time Machine) and ZRepl (zfs+ssh send-receive backups). The machine: dmesg . root@freenas[~]# gpart show => 40 234441568 ada0 GPT (112G) 40 1024...