Another core -> scale success story

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Just wanted to thank the devs for a well done product, despite some speed bumps I hit along the way. I wanted to go all GUI from the latest Core to the latest Scale. Apparently, in the GUI the best you can do is Core 13 to Scale Dragonfish (24.10?), then Dragonfish to the latest Fangtooth.

The first step is a big one, and it took quite a while with about 3 reboots before it came back to life and let me log in. One of my pools hadn’t imported, but clicking the import button brought in back in a few minutes, no loss. SMB shares, the bread and butter of my server, were all intact. I had an error about a low numbered media user I created years ago having a problem but I solved that too.

Afterwards I performed the Dragonfish to Fangtooth upgrade, and that went well. Strangely enough, at some point, my network interfaces got renamed but their properties stuck, and the system took the previous name and made that the description for each, which was cool. I did lose a few IP aliases and am discovering how this works in Scale, it’s different now.

Overall, considering it went from a few basic configured services and 2 pools on Freebsd to Linux without breaking anything too badly, I’d call it a success. I was pretty nervous since Core had served me so well over the years, but the inevitable march towards Linux was undeniable and I was already testing Scale on another server alongside my Core box. I look foward to all the apps my server can run now, just have to get over the hump of stacking up some IP aliases.

Thanks devs, you took a really difficult task and made it easy for us. Core users, all 10 of you, the transition isn’t that scary after all. Enterprise dudes, do your thing, you have support lol.

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Shots fired!

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Hey, I was on that list yesterday. I watch the podcast videos, devs were talking how few people were still on Core through metrics…

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I don’t disagree.

What’s stopping me in the meantime, besides having to redo my jails as LXC containers, are not entirely technical reasons.

I list some of them out in this thread. You’ll notice that a lot of the changes are permanent, as iX has stated they will not reverse their decisions.

I don’t care about “FreeBSD vs Linux”. If everything about SCALE (CE) was exactly the same, but it was based on FreeBSD while Core is based on Linux, it doesn’t change a thing for me.

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Good insights. I don’t care which *ix I use as long as it works and I have feature parity. That was a big reason for me to wait, especially after per-IP assignment for apps was mentioned earlier this year. I found an app that was the same as the jail I was using for each jail, so there was parity with services I needed to run, and then some, way after the plugins were abandoned and we got past the drama with TrueCharts. I knew it was getting closer.

I totally get the absolutely valid reasons why someone wouldn’t move off Core. It’s perfect for many use cases.

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When running at scale (forgive the pun) it’s much harder to make the transition. I’ve decided to let my Core systems stay Core until they are due for replacement (approx 2-3 years) and new systems I’m using Scale / TC.

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Nuff said. I get it.