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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/30/18 3:26 PM, Alex Carver via
Ale wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Given the proliferation of various boxed NAS devices like Synology,
QNAP, etc. </pre>
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Avoid them all. I have never seen such a device used where a
situation didn't eventually arise where it wouldn't have been a
crisis if it had instead been a proper admin-controlled Linux system
running Samba, NFS, etc. <br>
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The horrors come down to one simple characteristic: having your
*only* access to the shared filesystem be over the network using the
associated protocol. An enterprise-grade 26-drive file server I
built for A Previous Employer<sup>tm</sup> was able to scan its
shared-out filesystem for viruses using ClamAV at over 200MiB/s and
was awesome for performing searches for files that a user had
misplaced due to an errant mouse drag. It made squashfs files as
online backups every night in parallel with printing to tape over a
captive net shared with an auxiliary warm-spare file server and a
derelict Sun Sunfire connected to a SCSI tape library.<br>
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I could go on and on but really, prefab NASses are for people who
don't have a way to do anything else. That's perfectly fine, of
course - but we run Linux to not be constrained like that.<br>
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