Paul E Condon <pecondon <at> mesanetworks.net> writes: > > Having posted this, which I thought was reasonable, I went and looked at the > archives to see what OP (Mark Fletcher) had written. It turns out that all > of his investigation was done using commands typed in as root. For me, this > thread is a real puzzle. And very scary. > > Mark: How old is your NAS? What brand? Is it likely that it uses Linux-based > open/free software? What vintage? (best guess). > > IMHO, something bad is happening as we rush into the future. Layers of software > can cover bugs in basic functionality. Complexity beyond human comprehension. >
Paul -- The NAS is a Buffalo LinkStation 4TB NAS configured to do RAID giving me 2TB of storage. I bought myself it for Christmas from Amazon.co.jp (I live in Japan) at Christmas 2010. I don't know what OS it will be running but doubt it will be Linux since Buffalo will be aiming to maximise Windows compatibility. I have heard of people wresting their NAS out of the grasp of the OS it comes with and installing Linux on it, presumably by mucking about with firmware etc, but I have never attempted to do any such thing as I would probably screw it up :-) So it is running whatever it was running when it left the factory. I'm simultaneously glad that someone else is as unnerved by this happening as I am, and increasingly nervous that the issue isn't inspiring "oh that old chestnut" reaction in list readers... :-) Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20120731t030407-...@post.gmane.org