On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:36:13AM +0000, mick wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:53:18 +0000 Chris G cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:12:16PM +0000, mick wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:01:47 +0000 Chris G cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
My experience is that most USB drives 'just work' nowadays in Linux, you only get into OS issues when the drive is a network drive connected by ethernet.
Nearly all cheap NAS systems do *only* Samba and that not very well so don't always talk nicely with linux Samba.
OK - I can /just/ about accept that, though my experience is different.
But that is not what you said in your original email. You implied that any networked drive connected over ethernet (no application level protocols mentioned) could give difficulty.
Maybe it's me, but I prefer some precision in advice.
OK, but it wasn't actually relevant to the OP's question so wasn't really advice, more of a throwaway comment. :-)
I certainly had all sorts of issues with a Freecom NAS that I bought a couple of years ago. It had several 'windowsish' incompatibilites when used to backup from Linux systems using rdiff-backup and, in addition, was horribly slow. (This was Samba/CIFS, all it offered)
When used via its USB connection it was pretty much OK and my brother-in-law is still using it that way.
Since then I have avoided anything that doesn't offer NFS, the WD NAS I now have is excellent.