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OS6 now works on x86 Legacy WARNING: NO NTGR SUPPORT!
Update: It is now unofficially possible using NTGR images to update legacy hardware to os6.X See Post #3, for directions to install 6.2.1 on x86 Ultra and Pro Models. (ARM NOT SUPPORTED by this OS) ...
mdgm and I have decided that its time to lock this thread. So please do post any new OS6 on Legacy issues on their own threads.
tadgy wrote: As far as I could tell, from the first boot of 6.x a new btrfs filesystem is created on your drives. Since btrfs is a totally different filesystem from ext* (which 4.x used), it would have had to re-format the disk table/inode structure to suit the new filesystem. That is a data destructive operation
This is partly correct, in that it is NOT a completely data-destructive operation, but its a metadata-destructive one. It is also complicated by the fact that there is a new, blank filesystem on top of the old one, but the simple XORing of a resync isn't a data-destructive operation in itself (it doesn't write zeros, it XORs the existing data, MD doesn't know or care about which file system is on the resulting datablob). Data is still there, but it might be hard getting it out.
tadgy wrote: even if you are, it's going to need forensic data-recovery tools, a truck load of desire and a metric shit-tonne of time to do so.
This is 100% right. It would take several days, probably a week of work, if at all possible.
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