Release 4 Firmware (BETA)

[BadIntentions]

http://www.patriotmemory.com/softwar...-FW-V01R04.zip

It adds support for AFP and NFS. I have verified that the unit exports folders via NFS. It exports /mnt/data/public only in my testing. I was able to copy files to and from the unit. This is *nix style NFS, so your local username is used for file permissions on the patriot.

root@ClusterHeadUnit02:~# showmount --exports 192.168.1.106
Export list for 192.168.1.106:
/mnt/data/public 192.168.1.*

root@ClusterHeadUnit02:~# mount 192.168.1.106:/mnt/data/public /mnt/valkyriemount/ -o nolock

root@ClusterHeadUnit02:~# ls -l /mnt/valkyriemount/
total 3816
-rwxrwxrwx 1 501 501 3901099 Jul  8 23:05 IMG_2159.JPG

I did NOT test if the unit will migrate your data, I simply formatted some spare drives for testing the new firmware. I do not see any reason that users of R03 would have issues R01 and R02 users might lose data, but I have not tested.

[redshirtx]

No performance tweaks or some such, I'm guessing?

ETA: I went ahead and installed this on my Valkyrie (previously running R03) for kicks...I'm admittedly clueless about the internal Unix side of things, but it doesn't appear to have hosed any existing settings or data.

[BadIntentions]

No performance tweaks or some such, I'm guessing?

ETA: I went ahead and installed this on my Valkyrie (previously running R03) for kicks...I'm admittedly clueless about the internal Unix side of things, but it doesn't appear to have hosed any existing settings or data.

AFP and NFS added only.

Performance wise:

I still don't recommend using EXT3 unless you desperately need journaling. Use JBOD/Linear instead of RAID0, and don't use RAID 1 unless you really need mirroring. FAT32 is no good for the internal drives.

Using EXT2 and Linear i get ~20 to 25MB/s via gigabit and ftp.

[zeusleon]

There is a saying in northern Spain that says, killed the dog ran out of rage
and I also poor child's grandfather said the gas experiment
nas returned to the store and exchanged for another real

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWtw-2ZkTSQ

tell me when to stop the beta versions of the NAS and have done to use

[BadIntentions]

There is a saying in northern Spain that says, killed the dog ran out of rage
and I also poor child's grandfather said the gas experiment
nas returned to the store and exchanged for another real

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWtw-2ZkTSQ

tell me when to stop the beta versions of the NAS and have done to use

The CHEAPEST QNAP with that interface is the TS-259 Pro, with a shipped price of $599.00 USD. More than four times the Valkyrie. They're adding it to the TS-210 eventually though. Which will be nice, I own a TS-210 and want to play with that interface!

You can get a TS-210 for about 250 bucks, almost twice the cost of a Valkyrie. Same CPU, ram, and chipset. The CPU speed is 800MHz vs 500MHz. The TS210 (right now) is slightly slower than the valkyrie in terms of raw file transfer speed, mostly due to all the features bolted onto it. Thats for my use. Other types of users (notably, CIFS/Windows File Sharing) will see a speed increase with it.

[Finnman]

I just got this NAS and threw two WD Green 2tb drives in it. I did Raid Linear and Ext 2 formatting. I plugged a USB external harddrive into the NAS and am copying files by using a computer on the network to do so. I'm only getting speeds up 5kbps, and I see you mention here that you get speeds up to 20 - 25kbps. Is there some way I can better configure this to attain better speeds? Or perhaps the fact that a computer on the network is performing the copy command is making it slower? Any suggestions appreciated!

-Finn

[yungdai]

How did you get AFP working? I turn it on and try to connect it through Mac OS X Snow Leopard, however I can't log in. Any username/password doesn't work. I don't know why.

http://www.patriotmemory.com/softwar...-FW-V01R04.zip

It adds support for AFP and NFS. I have verified that the unit exports folders via NFS. It exports /mnt/data/public only in my testing. I was able to copy files to and from the unit. This is *nix style NFS, so your local username is used for file permissions on the patriot.

root@ClusterHeadUnit02:~# showmount --exports 192.168.1.106
Export list for 192.168.1.106:
/mnt/data/public 192.168.1.*

root@ClusterHeadUnit02:~# mount 192.168.1.106:/mnt/data/public /mnt/valkyriemount/ -o nolock

root@ClusterHeadUnit02:~# ls -l /mnt/valkyriemount/
total 3816
-rwxrwxrwx 1 501 501 3901099 Jul  8 23:05 IMG_2159.JPG

I did NOT test if the unit will migrate your data, I simply formatted some spare drives for testing the new firmware. I do not see any reason that users of R03 would have issues R01 and R02 users might lose data, but I have not tested.

[mycroft8]

I see a couple of issues with afpd (Mac OSX network file system) access.

The configuration files in the R4 beta are set to use "normal" Unix password access for access validation. But the "normal" password file appears to be empty. This is "I think" the reason why all connection attempts fail.

To make it automatically discoverable, you should run the "avahi" daemon

fyi; the R4 beta only exports the /mnt/data/public directory; similar to the NFS server in the beta

Dave

[mycroft8]

I may have jumped the gun in assume the user permission issues with AFP are related to the password file; I can now see it.

I'm still getting "access denied" messages when trying to use AFP, regardless of whether I try to connect as guest or as a regular user on the Valkyrie.

I've now tried NFS; I'm getting exactly the same results. Mounts are visible; I'm getting access not allowed messages.

Do the NFS and AFP servers on the Valkyrie keep any sort of log files?

Dave

[BadIntentions]

I may have jumped the gun in assume the user permission issues with AFP are related to the password file; I can now see it.

I'm still getting "access denied" messages when trying to use AFP, regardless of whether I try to connect as guest or as a regular user on the Valkyrie.

I've now tried NFS; I'm getting exactly the same results. Mounts are visible; I'm getting access not allowed messages.

Do the NFS and AFP servers on the Valkyrie keep any sort of log files?

Dave

Try using root as your local user.