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Virtuoso

Apr 04, 2016

Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 and OS6, yes?

I am trying to decide whether to upgrade my Ultra 2 Plus to OS6. I realize this is not officially supported by netgear, but basically, OS4 is kind of dying with no more support either, 3rd party add ons are father and fewer between as well. So it seems like as long as OS6 works fully well on this hardware, it would be more supported then OS4, even though not "officially". Perhaps some version of OS6 will deprecate this hardware eventually... just wondering...

But how does everyone else feel about this?

What are some of the specific advantages to OS6 over OS4?

Is it true at all that OS6 is more likely to be able to install just about any standard deb package, as opposed to OS4 where you are often taking a risk to try to use apt-get or dpkg? Obviously front view looks nicer, but I'm interested in performance differences, and compability with standard linux packages. I heard it was upgraded to SMB3, which could improve things. what else is improved in terms of underlying services or linux standardization?

I also ready its been upgraded to a new file system, with snapshots, which would also be very nice to have.

Any and all thoughts and opinions on this matter will be welcome. Seems like quite a few people hve already made this upgrade and I don't hear much complaining, so it must be the way to go?

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Apr 04, 2016
Standard Linux packages may store too much data on the root volume. Apps should store data on the data volume.

It is true that less work should be required to get packages running on OS6. We are using a newer kernel and a newer Debian distro (and hence newer versions of some packages which are dependencies for apps) than what comes in RAIDiator-x86 4.2.x
- Dewdman42
  Virtuoso
  Apr 04, 2016
  so that seems like its just a matter of taking a look at the deb before installing it and if it is going to put something outside of /c/ then go move it later. Even now I run into that sometimes when I build some src and do "make install". But I'm basically completely paranoid to run apt-get or to install a lib or something on OS4
  - Dewdman42
    Virtuoso
    Apr 04, 2016
    I'm probably gonna do it, a couple quick prep questions..
    
    I just updated the BIOS using the only BIOS updater bin that I could find..
    
    BIOS_Update_Package_0.5-x86.bin
    This updated the BIOS on my Ultra 2 Plus to version 1.8, dated, Nov 2011. But I have no idea if this is truly the latest BIOS that I should get to before making the leap to OS6. Anyone know how I can find out what is the latest and greatest BIOS for the Ultra2plus?
    
    Secondly, I need to backup this /c drive before I do it. I have a volume with sufficient space on another OSX machine that I can use for this task, what method would some reccomend to backup my readynas over the network before attempting this? At the least, backup my /c/ drive anyway for the data that matters, though it would be better to fully backup the root drive too in case I decide to roll back to OS4, hopefully not though. What suggestions would some of you have for the best way to backup the data over the network that way? ftp? rsync? something else?