Comment by Brian_K_White

Unfortunately trunas core is dead now.

zVault is a fork that is effortless to migrate in-place, but pointless because it has had no updates since the fork, it's no different from just continuing to run the derelict final version of truenas core.

That just leaves xigmanas which I have not tried yet, but looks like a simpler more pure nas without the jails or vm manager, which people have told me can be filled by bastille.

Or really, I'm thinking rather than even xigmanas it probably makes more sense to just use plain freebsd and never get stuck like this again.

The host is stuck at 13.3. 13.3 went fully EOL December 2024. The pkg repos don't even supply packages for that any more. I have a bunch of services that run in jails, and currently I can just barely squeak by by "illegally" updating the jails to 13.5. It's not officially supported by upstream freebsd but I seem to be getting away with it for now. But even 13.5 is not going to last much longer. Then what?

So really the FreeNAS ui was nice an all, but not so nice as to be worth being stuck like this now. I probably should have just skipped it and just used plain freebsd which would never have had any such problem.

So maybe assuming zvault continues to not update when I finally need to move some jail past 13.5, maybe the next move is not even to xigmanas but just plain freebsd.