Guide: How to Build FreeNAS (Part 2: Install and Build FreeNAS)

[Durkatlon]

Yeah, on the motherboard that I'm using in this NAS amd64 is not an option. The CPU is a Via C7 which only does x86. But I'm replacing that motherboard because of other problems (AHCI time-outs) which I do not have with FreeNAS7 on the same board.

Anyways, I agree the KVA_PAGES thing is strange. They should make it easier to configure the kernel so it can use more memory though a sysctl instead of a compile time option.

The box is however very stable with just using the very small kmem map. It's just not very fast. I did tweak the loader.conf to set vm.kmem_size and vm.kmem_size_max both to 512MB. Before that the machine would crash under high loads.

Still seems like a waste of 4 gigs of RAM right now

[joeschmuck]

I'd like to know how you make out with your build. If it's stable and the benefits are there, maybe that could be incorporated into the FreeNAS 8.1 i386 builds, or at least a variant.

[Durkatlon]

Yeah, I'll let you know how it works out. Probably going to take a little time as my main priority is actually getting amd64 on this NAS since it has the time-out issues *and* it's "production".

I did read the do_build.sh and the nanobsd.sh scripts and I do have support for the "force" option. I have kicked it off with options to "build kernel, don't clean, don't build world":

# build/do_build.sh -f -n -w

Oh and also based on this reading of the scripts, the correct file to modify to set kernel options is not FreeBSD/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC, but nanobsd/FREENAS.i386. This file gets copied into the aforementioned directory by nanobsd.sh.

So now we wait .

[Hi-Liter]

I get an "illegal option -b" error when trying to run the build script as described in step 3d.

[ProtoSD]

I usually just edit the do_build.sh script, search for the -b, and # comment out the whole 'IF" statement, it's like 3 or 4 lines.

Works like a charm every time.

[joeschmuck]

I'm sorry, I haven't updated my original posting since the developers made some changes in the build process. I've updated my posting and added the new script.

[warri]

Great guide, thank you very much!

Just one small addition: Before being able to build the iso, I also had to install cdrtools with "pkg_add -r cdrtools".

[joeschmuck]

Hum... At one time that was already added during the build then it was removed and I was told it was added again, maybe not. I'll update the guide to reflect adding cdrtools again.

Thanks.

[editmode]

Having problems with compiling the latest build, here's the error:

01:50:29 ## customize "add_port_net_netatalk"
01:50:29 ### log: /usr/local/freenas/trunk/obj.amd64/_.cust.add_port_net_netatalk
do_build.sh: ERROR: FreeNAS build FAILED; please check above log for more details

Any help is much appreciated, thanks.

[Hi-Liter]

I'm getting the exact same error, here's the last lines from the logfile (_.cust.add_port_net_netatalk):

===>  Building package for netatalk-2.2.1,1
tar: bin/add_netatalk_printer: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: bin/showppd: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: libexec/etc2ps.sh: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
....
tar: libexec/tfwpap: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: libexec/tfwpaprev: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/netatalk/pagecount.ps: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net/netatalk.

Judging from the rest of the log, the package seems to have compiled just fine.

Edit: Just did an svn update and tried do build again, this time the build fails in "add_pkg_devel_dbus". Here's the log:

+ cd /usr/ports/packages/All
+ pkg_add -F dbus-1.4.6.tbz
pkg_add: could not find package kbproto-1.0.5 !
pkg_add: could not find package xproto-7.0.16 !
pkg_add: could not find package libXdmcp-1.0.3 !
pkg_add: could not find package libXau-1.0.6 !
pkg_add: could not find package libxcb-1.7 !
pkg_add: could not find package libX11-1.3.6,1 !