[kwlug-disc] Synology, and proprietary disk formats ...

L.D. Paniak ldpaniak at fourpisolutions.com
Tue Aug 5 20:52:41 EDT 2014


On 08/05/2014 07:29 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:

> But what caught my eye is this comment about the disk formats being
> proprietary and unreadable on a Linux system
>
> http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=3232&cid=77644
>
> Hostage but for another reason ...
>
> Posting this for those who use Synology in this group ...
>

Thanks for the important PSA!  Be sure to expand the comments for bonus
mention of the importance of ECC memory in software-RAID systems that
checksum data written to disk (eg ZFS).


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