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2008/6/30 Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I recently bought an external disk and looked at NAS but ended up > getting USB. The main reason was that I highly doubt that it can be > formatted as ext2/3 or that it can be used as a block device. AFAIK > these are only accessible via ftp or smb. Can anyone confirm/deny this? The readyNAS I mentioned above supports access with SMB, NFS (v3 over UDP and TCP), AFP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, Rsync and will format connected USB devices as ext3 or NTFS. Not sure about block device. I don't know what format it uses internally (thought suspect it's embedded Linux) but don't care as long as all rights/privileges/ACLs are saved and restored and so far that seems to be the case. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software web: fullmeasure.co.uk blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog > > Thanks. > Simon > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html