"OS6" - a question or three

xeltros wrote:
OS6 also supports HFS+, fat32 and NTFS (BTRFS is not listed officially but of course works). Exfat is not supported but is quite easy to add via SSH (2 packages to get via apt get, not additional config), still I would stick with supported file formats for safety. So any computer can format a drive and have it read by the NAS. You could also use a linux live CD if needed.

The reason I chose ext3/4 was simple: That's what the previous NAS (readynas pro BE) formatted the backup devices as. If the USB device was formatted as one of the other filesystems, would the NAS and ADS (via samba) permissions be preserved on the backup? (Probably not for fat32, and maybe not for NTFS?)

At this point, due to the issues with the USB devices (most especially the auto-share with liberal permissions), the newer readynas firmware ("OS6") is not suitable for use at the company I work for. :(

xeltros wrote:
1- set restrictive files rights (700 for admin user), even if the drive is shared, files shouldn't be readable.

I suspect this might work. It depends on how samba is configured. (smb is running as root.) Of course, the smb configuration appears to be controlled by frontview, so there might not be any way to deal with it from there.

xeltros wrote:
2- use /etc/fstab and the USB device UID to mount the device to somewhere else. I think OS6 mounts drives to data and shares what's in it. Mounting it elsewhere would prevent this auto share. This could also impact the ability to backup to the drive. Creating a user and mounting the USB drive in /home/user and using the backup utility to backup this home directory could be a solution to that.

They mount to "/media", I think. I haven't spent the time to figure out what is mounting them, but if its something similar to udev, fstab probably is ignored.

Take care
Gary