What is it?

ZFStor is a fork of FreeNAS 9.10.

Why?

FreeNAS 9 is/was a stable product. FreeNAS 10 was a rewrite from the ground up and that made FreeNAS 9 lag behind. ZFStor is intended to keep the code base stable and at the same time evolve it to use latest versions of FreeBSD.

Building ZFStor

https://github.com/zfstor/build

To build the system (experts only):

Requirements:

Your build environment must be FreeBSD 12-CURRENT.
an amd64 capable processor. 8GB of memory, or an equal/greater amount of swap space, is also required
You will need the following ports/packages when compiling anything FreeNAS-related:
- ports-mgmt/poudriere-devel
- devel/git
- devel/gmake
- sysutils/cdrtools
- archivers/pxz
- lang/python3
- sysutils/grub2-pcbsd
- sysutils/xorriso
- sysutils/grub2-efi
- py27-sphinx
- py27-sphinxcontrib-httpdomain-1.2.1 (and all the dependencies that these ports/pkgs install, of course)

Building the System Quickstart Flow:

Checking out the code from git:

% cd /path/to/your-build-filesystem
% git clone https://github.com/zfstor/build
% cd build

Build it

% make checkout
% make release

Update the source tree, to pull in new source code changes

% make update

This will also fetch TrueOS and ports for the build from github.

The End Result:

If your build completes successfully, you'll have 64 bit release products in the release_stage directory. You will also have a tarball in your build directory containing the entire release for easy transport.

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