ZFStor is a fork of FreeNAS 9.10.

FreeNAS 9 is/was a stable product. FreeNAS 10 was a rewrite from the ground up and that made FreeNAS 9 lag behind. ZFStor is intended to keep the code base stable and at the same time evolve it to use latest versions of FreeBSD.

• https://github.com/zfstor/build

To build the system (experts only):

• Your build environment must be FreeBSD 12-CURRENT.

• an amd64 capable processor. 8GB of memory, or an equal/greater amount of swap space, is also required

• You will need the following ports/packages when compiling anything FreeNAS-related:

  • ports-mgmt/poudriere-devel
  • devel/git
  • devel/gmake
  • sysutils/cdrtools
  • archivers/pxz
  • lang/python3
  • sysutils/grub2-pcbsd
  • sysutils/xorriso
  • sysutils/grub2-efi
  • py27-sphinx
  • py27-sphinxcontrib-httpdomain-1.2.1 (and all the dependencies that these ports/pkgs install, of course)

• Checking out the code from git:

% cd /path/to/your-build-filesystem
% git clone https://github.com/zfstor/build
% cd build

• Build it

% make checkout
% make release

• Update the source tree, to pull in new source code changes

% make update

This will also fetch TrueOS and ports for the build from github.

If your build completes successfully, you'll have 64 bit release products in the release_stage directory. You will also have a tarball in your build directory containing the entire release for easy transport.