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"OS6" - a question or three
First, a direct question: I'm currently running my Pro BE's with 5 or 6 disks using "x-raid2" and "dual redundancy." (RAID6 with the xraid2 expansion scheme.) I downloaded the manual for one of...
Okay... everything finished rebuilding and appears to be working. I pulled the 1TB drive out and replaced it with a different one. The array is in a degraded but rebuilding state (which is expected.)
So far, I think the only really big problem (meaning I can't work around it) is the USB drive issue. One of the mechanisms we use for backing up involves portable USB hard drives, and that just doesn't seem to work at all. It's also unacceptable that the USB drive is automatically made into a share with all protocols and extremely liberal permissions. (Ideally, it wouldn't be shared at all unless I specifically configured it to be - its for backing up, not sharing!)
Note: The USB device MIGHT behave differently on an actual 516 device. No one has given any feedback on that.
(Mac Time machine also works with OS6 for at least one notebook. I'll need to grab another one to make sure multiple mac's can use time machine without any conflicts. That was never a problem with the v4 software, so I don't expect it to be a problem here either.)
So far, I think the only really big problem (meaning I can't work around it) is the USB drive issue. One of the mechanisms we use for backing up involves portable USB hard drives, and that just doesn't seem to work at all. It's also unacceptable that the USB drive is automatically made into a share with all protocols and extremely liberal permissions. (Ideally, it wouldn't be shared at all unless I specifically configured it to be - its for backing up, not sharing!)
Note: The USB device MIGHT behave differently on an actual 516 device. No one has given any feedback on that.
(Mac Time machine also works with OS6 for at least one notebook. I'll need to grab another one to make sure multiple mac's can use time machine without any conflicts. That was never a problem with the v4 software, so I don't expect it to be a problem here either.)
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