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ColonelPanik
Dec 14, 2011Aspirant
Not a good start with the Duo V2
First I notice no product found in the support area on Netgear's site. Then I notice no screws included in the packaging for my brand new NAS. I figured Netgear would overnight me some like other comp...
mdgm-ntgr
Dec 14, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
It runs custom Debian Linux.
Support for just FAT32/NTFS is probably to simplify things for the entry-level users. I would expect EXT3/EXT4 would still work fine, it's just you need special drivers for Mac/Windows to use these filesystems and that's something perhaps a bit too complicated for the target market for these products. FAT32 and NTFS are supported on both Windows and Mac OS X (though Mac OS X doesn't write to NTFS except with 3rd party software).
Support for just FAT32/NTFS is probably to simplify things for the entry-level users. I would expect EXT3/EXT4 would still work fine, it's just you need special drivers for Mac/Windows to use these filesystems and that's something perhaps a bit too complicated for the target market for these products. FAT32 and NTFS are supported on both Windows and Mac OS X (though Mac OS X doesn't write to NTFS except with 3rd party software).
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