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Only time will tell but Limetech has earned the benefit of my trust unless something happens to change that. Today's announcement alone has not changed anything for me other than prompting me to upgrade one of my Plus licenses to Pro. 😀 Of course, you are welcome to draw your own conclusions and act accordingly.

Is there a "Fast Boot" option? That often causes Unraid boot issues.

Did you miss this statement? Seems to me that nothing changes for legacy users unless they want to make the change in license. The subscription licenses are for new users going forward who want a basic/starter or unlimited version and the subscription after a year is optional. There will still be a Pro/lifetime license. Sure, some things still need to be worked out, including pricing but there is really not much in this announcement about which to be upset.

Just upgraded one of my Plus licenses to Pro. Still had three devices to go and no room in current chassis to put them but, it is for a server that backs up my Main Unraid server which has a Pro license. I upgraded for the following reasons: best to keep the two licenses in sync wanted to support Limetech's future needs/plans if even in a small way (paid for less than one hour of a dev's time) did not want to worry about the future of the Plus license (still have one) as it has been stated Pro will continue LImetech is worth supporting even if I don't think I will ever need one of the new subscription licenses.

Thank you. I own two Plus keys and one Pro key. The new Starter and Unleashed keys make some sense although I don't currently anticipate a need for either one. The update subscription and option to freeze at a prior version certainly lets the user have full control over which path to take. I think almost everyone can appreciate that.

I don't think Limetech would spring something like a change to subscription licensing without a well-thought out plan for the future that addresses the situation with current "lifetime license" owners. This community is too valuable to Limetech to just pull the rug out from under everyone. I have recently experienced something similar with Acronis True Image (now called something else). A couple of years ago, they abandoned perpetual licensing and went to subscription only and added a bunch of bloatware. This was done with virtually no warning and really upset the ATI community to the extent that many threads were started in ATI support forums about the best alternatives to moving away from ATI. I and many others expressed our displeasure directly to the company and now I get notices popping up in the last perpetual version of ATI which I bought and am still using that I can now purchase a perpetual license again because "they have listened to their customers." LOL Same thing is going on with VueScan (excellent third-party scanning software). It has been and still is a one-time purchase that entitles the user to lifetime upgrades which I have taken advantage of for 20 years. However, they recently started contacting users about the possibility of paying for annual support/upgrades. I got a similar email survey from Plex about my willingness to pay a subscription fee even though I own a lifetime license. I use Plex only to manage my own media and for HDHomeRun integration. I have no interest in their streaming media services and I told them no way would I pay a subscription for something for which they advertised a one-time lifetime license. It's way too early to get the pitchforks out on Limetech and I am sure they will explain everything when they are ready. Again, I just don't envision them pulling the rug out from under us all and changing the rules of the game completely for long-time users. Perhaps there will be some features or versions of Unraid that require a different licensing model in the future.

Yeah, I guess WiFi would be a network. It make sense that System should be available as those are general option not related to hardware.

The UDM Pro has a built in controller and can only be managed with that and not this self-hosted controller. WiFi tab is all you will have if you have only UniFi access points. Here is my Controller Reborn instance with a UXG-Lite for router/firewall/Internet, UniFi switches and UniFi access points (it is all active and available):

Enabling Help on the Cache Dirs plugin provides the answer. Disable logging if you do not want the .csv file to keep endlessly growing. As noted, it is not automatically rolled. Or you can delete it and let it start over I suppose

Yes, the culprit is Jellyfin. Port 1900 UDP is used by Jellyfin and cannot be changed. From the Jellyfin Networking page:

I have three Unraid servers (all Intel CPU based) and all have Asrock boards; two Asrock Rack server boards with IPMI and one Asrock consumer board in which I have a Geekworm KVM-A8 PiKVM for remote management. Yes, server boards with IPMI are a bit pricier than the consumer models but I have found them to be worth it. I have also found Asrock Rack server board support to be excellent and very responsive any time I had a question.

After the zip file is created, it is downloaded in your browser and should be in your browser download location as seen below in Firefox.

You can do it safely via the Dynamix File Manager in the GUI or with the Unbalance plugin.

Unraid will use eth0 whatever interface is assigned to eth0. The Linux kernel will assign the first detected NIC to eth0. If you want another NIC to be eth0, you can assign it by MAC address in Settings --> Network Settings in the GUI. I have two 1GbE NICS but you will see something like this in the GUI:

As do I. And when I reopen it, it comes up with a logged in GUI tab (Pick up where I left off in Chrome or Open previous windows and tabs in Firefox). Did I say that? What is with people assuming things that are not said or even implied? 😀

This just a Docker packaging on the Linux Unifi Controller from Ubiquiti. Like any version of the controller, it will manage any UniFi hardware including, routers/gateways, switches and access points. Of course, if you have a UniFi router such as the Dream Machine or Dream router with a built-in controller, this controller cannot manage that; only APs and switches.

This controller container will come in handy for managing the UXG-Lite as well as it has no built-in controller like the Dream Machine. Frankly, I would rather have a separate controller rather than a built-in controller like on some Ubiquiti hardware. As you noted, performance is much better this way and you don't have the limitations of some of the hardware with built-in controllers.

Depends I suppose your definition of the word. I say it is portable because you could remove the flash drive from an Unraid server and boot Unraid on a completely different machine if you wished. Sure, you may have to tweak the configuration a bit because the HDDs, SSDs in that machine will be different but Unraid does not care about the motherboard, CPU, etc. on which it runs. Using Windows as an example, it it very much tied to a specific hardware configuration and if you change motherboard, CPU, RAm, etc. it can invalidate the license. True. Yes, the Unraid/Limetech infrastructure needs to be present for a license transfer but they have indicated that would be maintained even if Limetech were no longer actively developing Unraid; even if third party intervention were needed License Manager from within the GUI: You are not the first to raise your particular concerns about Unraid licensing and this has been much debated over the years. However, the general consensus seems to be that the advantages of the current method outweigh the disadvantages and there has been no indication that licensing will be changed any time soon. You, of course, are free to make whatever choice you feel is best for you. If the licensing is a big hang-up for you, perhaps Unraid is not the solution you want to use.

I've run at least one Unraid server for 12 years (I have three now) and have never found the USB flash drive licensing model to be a problem. In fact, it has been a huge advantage when I want to upgrade hardware. I have been through four motherboard/CPU/RAM changes all with the same Unraid USB flash drive and retaining the same Parity/Data drives and cache/pool SSDs. Of course, those have been upgraded as well throughout my Unraid journey. The license being tied to the GUID of a flash drive makes it highly portable and easily replaceable when/if it fails. I have never had to replace a flash drive on any of my Unraid servers due to a flash drive failure. Your Unraid configuration and the license live on the flash drive but it has nothing to do with your data. If a flash drive fails, you restore a flash drive backup to a new flash drive and the server continues to run just as before. You can then transfer the license to the new flash drive and that can be done from within the Unraid GUI. Only if you need to do more than one license transfer a year do you need the intervention of Limetech. The Unraid Connect plugin allows for automatic backups of you flash drive if you choose to use it. Some prefer to do that manually which is possible as well. Just maintain recent USB flash drive backups (especially after configuration changes) and it is very painless to recover from a flash drive failure.

I'll leave the GUI logged into Brave for a few days and use it primarily to see it I ever have the issue you describe. Any GUI/display issues I had in the past (and these were rare) were resolved with clearing browser cache but you have already done that. I have never had any long-term issues with any browser and the Unraid GUI and I have been using it for 12 years. You obviously have an issue with Brave but it appears the problem is not widespread (or there are very Unraid users running Brave).

I'm not convinced this is a "Limetech mess" as you say. I just opened the Unraid GUI and navigated to several GUI pages using Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Brave with zero issues. I am running Unraid 6.12.6. I have never used Brave before and downloaded it just for this test but I have never had any issues with the Unraid GUI in Firefox, Chrome or Edge previously. Shot in the dark but you might try posting your diagnostics to see if any of the experts can spot something that might be useful; although, browser display issues are not generally caused by Unraid configuration problems.

The way I have docker containers setup is to have an IP address on a VLAN with a different subnet than the Unraid server. When that was setup, the VLAN DHCP range for Docker containers needed to be different than any DHCP range I had setup for that VLAN on my router/firewall. It was pointed out to me clearly this needed to be this way since Docker DHCP does not communicate with the router DHCP server. They are separate. I do not know if this limitation still exists (I assume it does) as I still have the orignal separated DHCP configuration. In fact, I assign docker containers their IP address manually on the VLAN subnet rather than letting DHCP take care of it. br0.3 is my Docker container VLAN and I have not defined a DHCP pool for it.

Parity drive is just a bucket of bits based on the calculation of a 0 or 1 depending on the data in the same location on all the data drives. If you write new data to a disk, parity just gets recalculated. Rebuilding a disk from parity is a process of using the calculated values on the parity disk in conjunction with all the other data drives to determine what is missing and write that to the new disk. Parity is not a backup of actual data. If you restore data from a backup, parity is recalculated based on the new data.

You mean like this? I got the image from Google images (it is a .png) and uploaded it on an image hosting site. I then edited the Docker container and switched to Advanced view and changed the Icon URL to the icon on the image hosting site.

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