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I connect to my QNAP with Mac OS X, Windows 8 and Linux. I don't recall having the option to choose filesystem for an SMB shared volume? It's probably EXT4, but that'd be invisible to the client PC. The only place where I do recall filesystem factoring into things was when I set up an iSCSI volume.QNAP NAS users - are you also Mac users?
If so, basic stupid question I have been stumbling with.
What file system do you use for mounting the NAS on your Mac?
Exactly, as a Linux system the QNAP NAS is either EXT3 or EXT4 and for the most, is only relevant internally to the NAS. However, if you're using RAID 1 and you get a failure with the NAS itself (power supply, mother board, etc) you can easily install EXT3/4 drivers into OS-X that will allow you to read the drives directly). The bits that make up the file is all thats transferred between the systems; only once its being written to the disk does the controlling OS care about the file system.I connect to my QNAP with Mac OS X, Windows 8 and Linux. I don't recall having the option to choose filesystem for an SMB shared volume? It's probably EXT4, but that'd be invisible to the client PC. The only place where I do recall filesystem factoring into things was when I set up an iSCSI volume.
Im running 10.10.2 with no 'real' issue using AFP. The only thing Im seeing, and I don't know why yet, is that an Apple script I use to mount the volumes seems to have an issue with one of my RAID 1 mounts but no issue with the second RAID 1 mount (same script never had an issue with 10.8). However, whenever that issue occurs, I can always use <command>K and mount the volume manually without an issue.@craygc - You are using AFP happily with recent vintages of Mac OS X? I may revert to AFP in this case, though it seems like both Apple and QNAP were somewhat advising SMB.