NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
lukek
Dec 09, 2013Initiate
exFAT Support on ReadyNAS 102
Trying to find out if there is exFAT support for an external usb hard drive on a ReadyNAS RN102 - I cannot find this information. Anyone know? Cheers, Luke
xeltros
Dec 09, 2013Apprentice
Yep, but this should never happen ;) with BTRFS on resizing ability, a simple script can do all the checking at boot time (and/or after calling dpkg) and resize automagically if necessary ;)
I believe no one should have to worry about technical things unless he wants to. That's the purpose of having a dedicated device (Advanced networking devices like cisco routers, layer7 firewall are excluded because they are meant to be adaptive and effective more than easy to use since their purpose is highly technical itself).
IMO exfat, ZFS, XFS, JFS, reiserFS drivers should have been integrated along with ext4, btrfs, fat32, NTFS, HFS drivers. Exfat being the only universal filesystem supporting 4Gb+ files (NTFS being not supported by OS X/Linux/BSD and HFS/EXT4 not integrated to windows), I don't understand how it could have been forgotten.
I believe in an highly tweaked and automated system for home devices with the ability to drop into an advanced interface for power users (eventually installed using individual apps like they did for the antivirus, but a setting in account preferences would be great) and the CLI for developers. Three audience, Three interfaces fulfilling every need. Netgear chose to keep an old generation interface (compared to the desktop like interface of Synology), they chose to keep things effective with no drill down clics. That's an effective and simple home user interface. Now they also sell their OS to pro, they need power user features (automation, partitioning, batch renaming, energy savings, performance tweaks, security (no firewall on a device made to be in DMZ/internet !!!), everything to make a small business server (DHCP/DNS/OpenLDAP/monitoring/mail...) and most of all they need folder management !).
I believe no one should have to worry about technical things unless he wants to. That's the purpose of having a dedicated device (Advanced networking devices like cisco routers, layer7 firewall are excluded because they are meant to be adaptive and effective more than easy to use since their purpose is highly technical itself).
IMO exfat, ZFS, XFS, JFS, reiserFS drivers should have been integrated along with ext4, btrfs, fat32, NTFS, HFS drivers. Exfat being the only universal filesystem supporting 4Gb+ files (NTFS being not supported by OS X/Linux/BSD and HFS/EXT4 not integrated to windows), I don't understand how it could have been forgotten.
I believe in an highly tweaked and automated system for home devices with the ability to drop into an advanced interface for power users (eventually installed using individual apps like they did for the antivirus, but a setting in account preferences would be great) and the CLI for developers. Three audience, Three interfaces fulfilling every need. Netgear chose to keep an old generation interface (compared to the desktop like interface of Synology), they chose to keep things effective with no drill down clics. That's an effective and simple home user interface. Now they also sell their OS to pro, they need power user features (automation, partitioning, batch renaming, energy savings, performance tweaks, security (no firewall on a device made to be in DMZ/internet !!!), everything to make a small business server (DHCP/DNS/OpenLDAP/monitoring/mail...) and most of all they need folder management !).
Related Content
NETGEAR Academy

Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology!
Join Us!