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Is Netgear still recommending upgrade to 6.4.0 ?
Seeing a large number of posts about problems (some of them quite serious) occurring with the official OS 6.4.0 firmware upgrade. Is it safe to upgrade to 6.4.0, or does Netgear recommend waiting...
Wish I could go back in time and un-upgrade. :smileysad:
6.4.0 is great with newer kernel
seems most problems with 102 and 104
Could you explain why it is great? And what are the benefits of the newer kernel? How does it change the user-experience?
I was thinking about upgrading but looking at the messages, I now am very much in doubt.
Or if you're on legacy hardware... some work fine, others cause issues.
It's working fine on my pro 6 (at the moment, with this firmware things can go wrong fast) but it totally screwed up two drives in my ultra 6 (command timeouts, bad sectors, end to end errors, ata errors on two drives simultaneously and now one isn't even recognized by anything I plug it into.) Used a 160gb drive to get it back to 6.2.4 and put in another 8TB drive and it works fine (and those drives had been working great on 6.3.5 up until a few hours after upgrading to 6.4.0)
It's buggy and not as stable as 6.2.4 was in my opinion. The 6.4.0 betas were all kinds of trouble where previous betas usually didn't have so many problems.
I would definately NOT upgrade if you need files that are on your NAS, because a combination of de quota-system, btrfs-cleaner and snapshot(removal?) makes the device completely useless. And there is no way to downgrade.
Update: My ReadyNAS 516 is still unusable every day until btrfs-cleaner has finished. You could say my device is bricked. I think Netgear should come with a fix real soon now and I don't know what they are recommending... upgrading to 6.4.0 would definately not my advice. I'm beginning to think I should sell my bricked ReadyNAS and buy a different brand of NAS. One that is NOT using btrfs would be a nice starting point.
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