Greetings to all zVault users.
I’ve only toyed with it, and it seems stable enough, but would appreciate other chiming in to share their experience, and perhaps why they chose zVault instead of SCALE (TrueNAS) and perhaps some ideas for the project going forward.
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allan
August 26, 2025, 3:17pm
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In general, zVault is a more direct upgrade for TrueNAS Core. As it is just updating to a newer FreeBSD kernel, rather than changing operating systems.
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Unfortunately, zVault no longer appears to be in active development:
opened 12:31AM - 23 Nov 25 UTC
I just wanted to point out clearly that this repo contains hardly any code chang… es since forking, and does not build. I have commented here, reached out to the dev team directly on github and via email and received no response. To me this is all looking rather suspicious and means that the iso file for zvault is essentially closed source.
On a side note, seeing that this project is very dead(if was ever alive in the first place), is anyone else doing any work on porting truenas to fbsd 13.5 or 14? I was able to get pretty far with 13.5 and 2025Q3 ports tree after making some changes(see my fork). Im am planning to sync to 2025Q4 and try again.
The primary issues I am having is building rust, openzfs 2.3 and pyzfs(Or if I could get pourdiere to just DOWNLOAD the $#@!ng package versions instead that might be a workaround - but alas that is _very hard_)
victort
December 29, 2025, 2:42pm
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Sadly it appears so.
Still, it might revive.
Here are some other interesting projects around zfs.
Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD
A modern web-based management interface for ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, and SMART disk monitoring built with Python FastAPI and HTMX.
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