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I would like to see first party support for placing any app behind some of the most popular VPNs (PIA, Nord, Express, Proton, Tailscale, etc), as well as custom VPNs (WireGuard, OpenVPN, etc). For example, you may install “The Lounge” IRC client and have all internet communication pass through a PIA VPN so that your home IP is not exposed while chatting. Traditional methods of doing this involve painful configuration of iptables or other firewall rules. I believe this is an area where HexOS could really simplify things: Install a VPN plugin, authenticate with it, and then simply assign an app to a VPN plugin via the app’s settings if desired. It would be fully accessible from the home network without going through the VPN, but all internet traffic would go through the VPN with a kill switch in case the VPN goes down. Thoughts?

Hello Wanted to share these links to installing dockge & portainer on Truenas for anyone who is more savvy than I am. Dockge seems to be working for the most part, although I had 0 experience with docker compose until this past weekend. My experience with Portainer is also limited, and I have had networking issues trying to spin up containers through portainer, however I prefer it to dockge for management (which seems to have no issue). Anyway, I found these helpful for playing around with docker and spinning up homepage & heimdall to work on a home page solution for all of my homelab

Thanks, everyone for the responses! I did forget to mention that I bought one extra new drive, the same as my previous 2 HDDs (4TB each), and that's the one I'm wanting to add (so I would have 3 x 4TB in my pool, now with room to grow). It looks like backing up my current data, wiping the pool, then restarting with this new setup would be the easiest method here. Thanks again!

I don't expect that HexOs will facilitate an expension beyond 2 drives in the near future. This is not supported in ZFS (underlying filesystem). Single drive to mirror is possible, but you can’t change from mirror to raidz1 without backing up your data, destroying the existing pool, recreating the pool as raidz1 and then restoring your data from backup.

The HULK is just a media storage/streaming device. Once my files are transferred I'll be able to get a better picture of the read speeds during streaming (at most, two simultaneous). It may be that L2ARC might help me there. As to the files, they are all standard 1.2GB-1.8GB 1080p MP4 and MKV files (though I do have an occasional 50GB+ file). I do realize that a mish-mash of file sizes can have throughput results like I was seeing but I'm almost certain that is not the case here. It is possible that cached data took a while to transfer from SLC to permanent storage, and once it caught up things perked up? I also found that the drives I'm using are notorious for slow write speeds due to said cache type. I also want to look into something called overprovisioning which allows the SLC cache size to be increased... perhaps a performance gain is to be had there, but I'll only be able to test this out if I can find some Linux software similar in functionality to Samsung's Magician. I know... I talk a lot. It's not often I get to pick the brains of a community of high-thinking people. I very much appreciate all your help.

Can i please just get a refund? truenas scale works fine, but when logging into HEXOS it keeps telling me that the server isn't running correctly, but keeps spinning and doesn't tell me what's wrong with it.

My folks down in Tejas were hella confused. They thought the devils dandruff just fell from the sky.

Hello, I just bought HexOS in hopes for saving up money one-day for a NAS of my own to host my own Jellyfin server. I just wanted to voice my interest to try to help towards getting it pushed up in priority. Linus if you can help with NAS suggestions I would appreciate it.

I believe integrating Home Assistant with HexOS could be a game-changer for the operating system, offering functionality that is sorely lacking in almost all other OS platforms today. A Home Assistant integration would allow users to monitor and manage their NAS more effectively. Imagine being able to track critical metrics such as system uptime, array health, disk health checks, and the overall status of your storage systems — all from within Home Assistant. Furthermore, adding control features would significantly enhance the user experience. It would be fantastic if users could automate tasks like rebooting or stopping/starting applications, VMs, or containers directly through Home Assistant. Additionally, automating disk spin-downs during off-peak hours for power savings would be a powerful and eco-friendly feature. The potential of Home Assistant integration is vast, and it's difficult to fully capture all the possibilities in a single topic. However, the core idea is simple: having such an integration, with continuous updates and new features, would be a major advantage for HexOS. While most other operating systems either lack similar functionality or offer only basic, limited capabilities, HexOS could stand out by providing a more comprehensive, user-friendly, and flexible solution.