up to version TrueNAS-24.04.2.3 TrueNAS with cryptsetup and dm_mod.so was useful and recommendable. After that they tried to clean it up - unfortunately not very successful…
TrueNAS isn’t a general purpose Linux (or FreeBSD) distro. For storage, it’s ZFS, and ZFS only.
The presence of other modules or libraries is not indicative of what TrueNAS offers or how it’s “recommended” to use.
not understood, it’s about mounting - and data transfer , i really didn’t expect - basic functionalities (like mounting encrypted drives , or non encrypted drives like ext4) to be discussed here - for a nas system this should be state of the art. i don’t see the problem - what is artificially described here .
There are two supported means of data transfer in TrueNAS: to or from a mounted ZFS pool, and over the network. You managed to hack together an unsupported method, and now it doesn’t work any more. Too bad for you.
My grief is limited - there are alternatives. but your inflexibility seems unlimited
Understood.
Except EXT2/3/4 is not supported. So yes, in theory, those could be removed.
At one time, importing data from non-ZFS external disks was supported. However, too many people had trouble with, or lost ACLs, permissions and extended attributes which caused grief among users. So the only supported data import method today is via the network.
Yes, it would be nice to have a general purpose OS that has great NAS abilities, along with Apps and VMs. But, TrueNAS SCALE is a targeted appliance firmware.
While iX has added features and fixed bugs that only affect free users, (like many SOHO), larger features really seem to need a purpose for Enterprise Data Center users, (the ones who pay for development via purchases & support contracts).
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i can understand this answer. the sadness is limited to the fact that it was not foreseeable - for me - that a simple luks mount (which is not to be regarded as elaborate and complicated) - after so many versions - is suddenly gone.
You appear to misunderstand what is going on here.
You are talking to community members, ordinary people whom have no special relationship in iX.
They have tried to explain to you what iX has said and communicated regarding LUKS, and in the later posts - other filesystems, on TrueNAS. You don’t need to change their mind, you would need to change iX’s mind and you still haven’t posted a proper Feature Request.
That said, my understanding is that iX has already made they intent known on this issue in an older Feature Request linked earlier in this topic.
This is not my opinion, this is my understanding of the facts.
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thanks for the clarification. i will follow the advice.
answer like a teacher, and yet only elementary school students 