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

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Apr 4, 2008, at 17:53 , Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> 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.

That has nothing to do with a NAS though...  you get that problem with  
any RAID hardware/software and the myriad ways different admins  
configure it.

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