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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: ttmcmurry on August 13, 2009, 06:05:47 AM
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In one of the last few posts, it was said it has become difficult to get new features in the 323 because of the limited amount of flash (8MB) to hold everything. I was wondering if D-Link has considered the possibility of changing the way flash is used- citing the BT client is installed and used.
Wouldn't it be possible to create a folder that only root has privileges to-- is excluded by samba-- and install any of the extras there? The flash could be used as the (pardon me if i get the linux wording wrong) initd-ramfs area for a bootable linux image, mount the hdd/raid, and load the rest from disk? I realise in that kind of setup, the 323 wouldn't be fully functional until a drive/array had been defined.
Perhaps this is already happening and I'm simply not aware of it.
As many of us have seen from using ffp, this seems to work quite well for getting "extras" to work.
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Alternatively, couldn't the USB port also be used w/a flash drive for extra storage space?
Obviously that'd negate the ability to use the print service... but... it's an option, and less "wonky" than having to have a small chunk of your hard drive set aside for that stuff.. (plus it'd be accessible even if the hard drive died)
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Alternatively, couldn't the USB port also be used w/a flash drive for extra storage space?
Obviously that'd negate the ability to use the print service... but... it's an option, and less "wonky" than having to have a small chunk of your hard drive set aside for that stuff.. (plus it'd be accessible even if the hard drive died)
I guess you're not aware - but - there's already a couple of "small chunks of your hard drive" set aside for that sort of stuff - if you pull a drive from your DNS-323 and look at the partition structure you'll discover that there are either three or four partitions on it - depending on the firmware version.
What is being discussed here is tried and proven technology - there are quite a few existing NAS units that work this way.