"OS6" - a question or three

mdgm wrote:
What I did: 1. Do a factory default 2. Disable X-RAID 3. Delete the volume 4. Create a new RAID-6 volume with the same name 'data' 5. Re-enable X-RAID 6. Create the default shares manually

So, I've started to play around with this. I don't have the replacement processor yet, but I did up the RAM to 4GB. What I did was to get OS6 going with 1x1TB and 3x2TB drives, disabled XRAID, created a RAID6 volume and re-enabled XRAID. (It's currently building the volume.) The reason I did the drives that way is to validate if I can add another 2TB drive and another 1TB drive while maintaining RAID6 and XRAID. It might take a few years for the volume to get out of degraded status. For some reason, I decided to stress the thing out by copying a few hundred GB's of data to a newly created share while it's still rebuilding the array. (On the other hand, I have to admit that I'm impressed that I'm getting 75MB/sec copying to the degraded array while it's rebuilding!)

Some very initial comments... Obviously, these are based on coming from v4 of the firmware:

I really don't like that I have to activate DLNA on an entire share. I much preferred the option of specifying a share AND directory. It's possible that I'd have some "pictures" (for example) that I don't want scanned and available by DLNA, and it seems annoying to have to create multiple shares to accomplish that. As well, I might want to only have a single share that houses all my media types, but specify certain directories within that single share for certain DLNA types. (ie: //DLNA Scanned/Music, //DLNA Scanned/Video, etc)

Please do something different in FV concerning getting drive device data (SMART data.) Those little javascript popup windows are pretty, but they aren't very useful. On my desktop (using Chrome), I have a hard time scrolling the little windows in order to see all the data (I have to move my mouse just perfectly to get inside the window and then use my scroll wheel), and they don't work properly AT ALL on my android devices.

For some reason, "Apps->Available Apps" is completely empty for me (and refresh does nothing.) I'm not sure if that's because the hardware is unsupported, or if it relates to deleting and re-creating the volume when getting RAID6 + XRAID active. (Actually, it can't be the hardware, as there was stuff listed there the FIRST time I booted OS6 after a factory default. I've done a couple of factory defaults since then, but I don't remember when they list became empty...)

I like the "performance" graphs idea. In particular, I could see the "network" graph (and it's various options) being extremely useful.

The snapshot "options" are very different from what I expected. They make more sense after reading the manual (and searching this forum), but I suspect I'm going to be coming back with several questions related to that.


More to come...
Gary