Tim Connors wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Trent W. Buck wrote:
I suppose there are caveats: it would have to be pleasant, like OpenWRT, not like a Thecus NAS; and I'd have a strong preference for a
Funny you should say that. I ended up giving up on the godawful hacked up scripts (that recursively run chmod/chown immediately on any external drive plugged in, without asking the user) in my thecus n4200, and installed debian on it.
Due to <stupidity elided> that wasn't an option. Nice to know it would've worked if I had thought of arguing for it, though.
I've been meaning to write a blog post on it, if nothing else other than to say "don't buy thecus unless you're prepared to put a lot of work in".
Ha, I just tell people "do not buy" and leave it at that :-) For home I *have* been meaning to look at sourcing a SFF box that can run Debian, take 2 or 3 3.5" SATA drives in an mdadm RAID1 or 5, and then shove that out to the LAN as NFS/SFTP/HTTP... So far my own stuff has operated on the principle of "real men don't keep backups, they just upload a release and let the internet mirror it" :-)