 Tom here from Warren systems and true nascor 12 has been released with update version 6 This release was on October 5th of 2021 Which of course I probably loaded it because why not live on the edge load and maintenance update release. Okay It's probably not the most exciting step forward It's not the biggest revision and change once we get to these later like you six where we're at now There are really minor bug fixes and maybe a few slightly major ones But they're not a ton of quality of life improvements on there But the question a lot of people have and well did the upgrade go well And this is October 11th of 2021 and I can say it the systems. I've done all my testing on I had no issues at all It was well just another maintenance release and the update went fine Which is of course what we want to hear because we don't really want too much excitement on our stable storage servers We leave all the excitement still in the true nascale Which by the way another beta was released and go ahead and try the nightlies if you want to get real Exciting but that's a different topic all the other I have videos I'll link to that I've already talked a little about true nascale and yes I'm still excited about it back over here to our friend the stable true nascore and yes It's still stable now before we dive into the details and changes if you'd like to learn more about me and my company Head over to Lawrence systems.com feel like to hire sure project There's a hires button right at the top which of course includes true nasconsulting If you'd like to support this channel other ways There's affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services We talked about on channel and yes, we uploaded some of the shirts also to have no branding on them for those you that Asked that no problem. Someone said I really wish you'd do that and I was like well That's an easy request. So we did that if you want to check out our shirts store We're trying to get a few new shirts up there depending on when you're watching this video All right on to the changes and I like how they started out right here true nasc 12.0 u6 was released today and is now the most recommended update for even the most conservative users who are using true nascore Core and true nasc enterprise with this release comes the resolution of approximately 90 issues including user group default quotas have been updated display properly some NF SV for h.a. improvements more extensive smb regression testing shadow copies now This is something of course has been kind of a buggy issue with u5 that they fixed where you couldn't see the shadow copies And then we have the open zfs dedupe better web ui filtering by name as a matter of fact They added specifically here. This is one of them. I thought was cool They added regex to this fix ability to show all snapshots and add regex filtering for snapshot names if you're someone with a lot of snapshots and in larger pools, this can certainly be a problem go over here actually over to snapshots and There's a few pages in here to roll through not too many on this particular server But if you needed to find something quick like my videos You can spell videos right while you're doing there we go now. We filtered it just for LTS videos This is gonna be a nice feature. I think for I dealt with a few clients that have had some Really large pools a lot of snapshots. So I'm surprised that request didn't get fulfilled even sooner honestly But it's good to see that it's in there Zfs dedupe enabled uses Shah 512 to check some algorithm. I may do an upcoming video on dedupe I was looking and realized there's a little bit confusion about it how it works. So I thought maybe that needs to explain a video Let me know in the comments below if you're confused by that But something something maybe I should dive into I have a few other storage videos planned as well And then down here is a list like they said there's 90 bug fixes But hey, sometimes you're simple something like typos and error messages or can't delete data sets based on certain circumstances So lots of great fixes here Also, there are some improvements in here in terms of new feature support and support for Tiger older and Meteor Lake so this is all Some new upcoming Intel stuff that's in there so the support in there is gonna be welcome Now what about the systems themselves that I upgraded? I figured I bring it up because this is my oldest system I was kind of like Taken back sometimes looking at all these other ones I have with a lot of cores that this one's still running It doesn't do anything important anymore I kind of feel like it's a science experiment at this point because yes it is just an Intel i5 4570 with 3.2 gigahertz and The drives running in it one of them in particular well one grouping of them I'll show you how they're set up in a second the 5,000 757,888 hours of on time So they've been powered on for about over six years it's just about when the system was built and this i5 was not the newest thing out six years ago when we built the system But it's amazing it so works do anything we've done to this and yes This is a consumer motherboard in here. So feel free to poke at it. No, it doesn't have VCC So feel free to comment on that as well But yeah compared to these other systems. It is substantially underpowered, but that's what kind of makes it interesting to me is how basic it is and How it has worked for this song now the distance here because I cumulatively have added several discs to it It's got a series of v-debs and I have a video I broke down how unbalanced v-debs work because these drive groupings are groups of two terabyte drives three terabyte drives and Four terabyte drives grouped together each one composing of and actually go to pool status Each one's its own grouping of v-debs on here and it's actually worked really really well Without any trouble obviously for this many years for those of you wondering of how does it work on long-term? Quite a bit This is how we expanded it by adding four more drives at a time starting with the two terabyte drives Then we got a set for three terabyte drives then for Four terabyte drive so this system's actually been surprisingly Trouble-free and we're just gonna keep it running in as long as possible It just is a extra application of all the data we have here at the office But there's one thing that's gonna be done to it I am going to be erasing the drives and rebuilding them because if you notice this right here It is still using the legacy encryption legacy encryption keeps this from being able to Go to true NAS scale so I'm not gonna be able to do it in place upgrade So because it's just a bunch of replicated data, I will destroy it and rebuild it The only thing semi-critical I guess you could say it runs It's got an extra copy of syncing running on here in the jail So maybe I'll make a video about doing the process of backing up jails and putting them back You can't back them up and move them over to scale But you can back them up and put them back when you destroy a data set There's some processes for that and I'll work on a video covering that topic But overall the systems have their replications in place. They're Working perfectly fine. I didn't run any issues after doing the upgrade everything worked before the upgrade and everything continued working Right after the upgrade plus there's a lot of bug fixes So my overall I can't see any reason not to upgrade now for those of you that have been holding back There is a recommendation that you at least get to version 11 U5 prior to going to 12.0 u6 so there are some incremental jumps that's documented over on their page So go ahead and consider that if you were one of those long holdouts and waiting a really long time before you jumped into the 12 series because of stability or compatibility issues that you found worked better in 11 But the good news is if you always take all your backups and do this if you do go forward and something goes completely Arrive or wrong you can river back provided You have all the backups on there and don't upgrade the data set because then once you upgrade to the newer versions ZFS there are features that may not be supported in that pool there for the older version may not work So always take that consideration by doing the upgrade But I give it a thumbs up definitely recommend you move to the latest version And yes I will be doing more updated videos on true nascale as more features and it comes closer to being released time as I'm So excited about that But true nascore still has a long time and a long life ahead of itself of good stable Producible performing system that I will keep using at least for some of our mission critical things I'm gonna stay right there, but of course I love bleeding edge and playing with this I'll be doing more of that to leave your comments and thoughts down below or have a more in-depth discussion our forums and thanks And thank you for making it to the end of this video if you enjoyed this content Please give it a thumbs up you like to see more content from this channel Hit the subscribe button and the bell icon to hire a sure project head over to Lawrence systems calm and click on the Hire us button right at the top to help this channel out in other ways There's a join button here for YouTube and a patreon page where your support is greatly appreciated For deals discounts and offers check out our affiliate links in the descriptions of all of our videos including a link to our shirt store We have a wide variety of shirts and new designs come out. 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