Hello, On Thu, 02 Dec 2021 22:02:39 +1030 Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 10:46 +0100, Walter Cazzola wrote: > > - Linux compliant ie., > > - it should be formatted in ext3/4 or other *nix file system > > to maintain all the linux file details such as access rights, > > attributes, links, name lengths/characters, ... > > I used to use WD MyBook and MyCloud NAS devices, and while it offered > NFS access, it's normal way for you to use it was for everything to get > dumped into in an all-user location, owned by root on the disk drive, > with access restrictions (mis)handled through the networking file > system. It seemed the same hairbrained scheme for SMB. > > If you SSHd in and set up your own directories, it could work like NFS > normally did on Linux. Mind you, after any reboot or power outage, I'd > have to SSH in and chown my parent directory back to me from root. > > I'd disabled most of their shovelware, to make thing less painful. But > my last delve into removing the crud managed to brick it. > > So... I'd avoid those kind of devices. > > If you have a network of PCs, it might be easiest to dedicate one of > them as your fileserver, and roll-your-own. Keep a separate drive for > the OS from all your data, that makes upgrading the OS easier and safer > (just unplug your data drive beforehand). This is what I've done for a > several years (a Linux server). Before I switched to a QNAP-based hardware solution (see my former reply to this thread), I was using a dedicated minimum-config file server running Linux, a Zotac mini-PC (small, cheap and no noise) with an external RAID disk enclosure. I must admit that it's barely the same amount of configuration and setup, at the end, and the pros of NAS-based solution come with their cons anyway. Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/
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