Migrating my NAS from TrueNAS Core to vanilla FreeBSD

TrueNAS Core is dying, long live FreeBSD # I've already explained why I run FreeBSD on my home servers. My NAS, znas, was the one box that didn't fully follow that philosophy: it ran TrueNAS Core, which is FreeBSD under the hood, wrapped in iXsystems' middleware — their web UI, iocage for jails, a .system dataset, a whole abstraction layer on top of ZFS. It worked fine for years. But TrueNAS Core's future isn't exactly bright. iXsystems keeps pushing everyone toward TrueNAS SCALE, which is Debian-based. Linux. Nope. Not under my data. I don't mind Linux on my laptop, I actually like it there. But the box holding every family photo, every backup, every document I own isn't going to run on top of systemd and a Debian base I didn't choose, just because a vendor decided that's the future now. I'd rather run something I actually understand, with the same stability I already get everywhere else in my infra. So instead of migrating to SCALE, I migrated away from TrueNAS entirely, to a plain…