I did the final switch from the old HP to the new Synology this
afternoon and I figured I'd mention some of the gotchas in case any of
you are interested in doing something similar.
debootstrap is a great tool but it produces minimal installations. Be
prepared to install pretty much everything wit
On 6/21/2017 6:31 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> What are the advantages you see over another mini-ITX server
> like the HP?
It is a mini-ITX server, one that happens to be designed for network
attached storage and comes with a vendor-supported, Linux-based
operating system.
I think a better question is
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 01:00:43PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Wait... Btrfs raid1? Yeah, it wasn't hard. Synology uses a 2GB and a
> 2.5GB partition on each drive for it's internal use (I think) and the
> rest for MD-RAID. I broke up the RAID6 volume, created a new single-disk
> volume (/volume1
So. I've grown accustomed to having a bunch of little things on the HP
N40L with Debian which aren't available on the Synology DS.
So I installed Debian stretch. In a chroot directory. It's been working
well. Some of the low level kernel stuff is a little wonky because
Synology currently ships a 3
