On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Mark Fletcher wrote: > 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... :-)
Well... there is an awlful lot of CIFS and NFS-related fixes in the kernel stable queue. Check that. Also make sure it is not your NIC driver or memory (or the NAS' memory) that went bad... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- 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/20120731012712.gb25...@khazad-dum.debian.net
