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

[Chris Irwin]

On 08/05/2014 07:29 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> The news was out about a Synology ransom ware exploit.
>
> http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/08/05/1250223
>
> 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 ...

I've got a Synology 207+. It's a few models out of date (it's from 
2007), but I've pulled the drives out and used them in my Linux boxes 
without issue. Was a standard ext3 filesystem, though it wasn't 
auto-detected like most removable drives. Manually mounting it with `-t 
ext3` worked correctly. Their new models might be different.

A coworker has a much more capable five-bay x86 netgear box (the model 
escapes me), which actually runs some combination of lvm and mdadm on a 
stripped-down debian-ish base. It gets very confusing very fast when you 
start replacing disks and letting it's dynamic growth mechanism do the 
work (multiple raid5 slices on each disk, pooled together into a big 
lvm, divided into smaller shared filesystems). But again, readable on a 
standard Linux box (assuming you can connect at least four of five 
drives and can manually construct an mdadm array).


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