[geeks] Thoughts? (Cheap NAS with nice feature set)

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Lionel Peterson wrote:

>> What happens when the device inevitably fails?  Will I be able to put
>> the disks into a computer and read them, or will I have to buy/borrow
>> another one of these NAS devices?
>
> It supports RAID (EXT2, EXT3), non RAID (FAT32, EXT2, EXT3) - those
> seem pretty standard filesystems to me...

The filesystem is irrelevant if the block arrangement and RAID metadata
get in the way.  There are plenty of justifiable ways to do even simple
mirroring that make the individual members of the mirror not usable as a
bog standard disk without redoing the slices and filesystems.

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