Freedom9 freeStor 4020 Release Note

freeStor firmware Release Notes Ver 2.2

for

firmware version 1.4

July 2007

Contents

FREESTOR FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES VER 2.2 1

NEW FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS 3

Increase in NAS storage capacity 3

Flexible storage capacity 3

Shared folder capacity reallocation 3

Shared folder quota management 3

Daylight saving time 3

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS 4

INFORMATION AND RESTRICTIONS 4

Active Directory Server 4

Firmware Upgrades 5

Miscellaneous 5

Network Access Server (NAS) 6

Remote Boot 6

DiskSafe Express 6

HOW TO UPDATE THE FIRMWARE TO V1.4 7

Backup your existing data 7

Steps of firmware update 7

CONTACT US 10

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New Features and Enhancements

Increase in NAS storage capacity

 The storage system supports up to four 3.5" SATA-I hard disks, with an increase in

capacity. This version increases the NAS capacity to more than two terabytes.

Support up to 4TB storage space: The unit with firmware 1.4 can support up to 4x

1.0TB hard drives.

Flexible storage capacity

 The storage system supports expansion on a per folder basis. Shared folders can now

be expanded on an individual folder basis.

 The “Home” (User Home Folder) is now an isolated NAS share. In previous versions

the “homes” folder was one large NAS share, which included public and other share
folders. The default size is 200MB and is expandable to two terabytes.

Shared folder capacity reallocation

 The storage system supports reuse of shared folder storage upon deletion of the

shared folder. Storage capacity allocated for the deleted folder is released to a “free”
pool and can be reallocated.

Shared folder quota management

 Each shared folder will sit on a single NAS resource, capacity in your storage system is

divided into partitions. Including one for a shared public folder, one for user home
folders and one for backups. All home folders will share a single unique NAS Resource.

All shared folders, including home folders can be manually grown to a maximum size
of 2TB. Shared folders can not be shrunk and deletion of a shared folder will free its
space to total storage capacity which can be used by other shared folders or backups.
The public folder cannot be deleted or its capacity reclaimed.

 Please note: The maximum size of a single shared folder or a backup is still 2TB.

Daylight saving time

 The latest daylight saving time rule (Feb, 2007) is included in the v1.4 firmware. As

regular Linux system, the time is adjusted automatically and DST is always on. If the
daylight saving time rule is changed, a new v1.4 firmware is required.

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