szucsati,
> Well, I should try to find that memory stick then
> :). At some point I will want to sell this, and
> would be useful to have the chance to get back to
> the official (and outdated) software.
> Isn't mtd0 only the uBoot partition? If I erased
> that, wouldn't I still have the OS?
Yes, it you've erased mtd only, then stock OS is still intact on other mtds. So you only need to restore u-boot image on mtd0 to go back to full stock.
>
> The reason why I wanted to try the official FW was
> that I just bought this NAS second hand, and I
> jumped straight to Debian, before testing the
> speeds. Now I'm getting about 70MBps read and
> 40MBps write (on an SSD, just for testing). Some
> benchmarks on the internet showed 100/80, but I
> also read similar results to mine. So a bit
> confused there, and wanted to check it myself.
Yes, that would be expected. Since stock FW was tuned and tested (often in a way that we don't want to do, i.e. kludge) to maximize the performance (how they were able to sell the box). What I provided here is a basic rootfs and full kernel. I expect users to do the tuning themselves and share the hints here to benefit all.
So if you see the IO or network performance is less than stock FW, you should post the benchmarks, and let other jump in to share theirs. At the end, if nobody figures out the tuning parameters, then I'd try to investigate.
One more thing, a lot of time, it is just how you set up your Samba, NFS, network ... that results in less performance.
> Well, I should try to find that memory stick then
> :). At some point I will want to sell this, and
> would be useful to have the chance to get back to
> the official (and outdated) software.
> Isn't mtd0 only the uBoot partition? If I erased
> that, wouldn't I still have the OS?
Yes, it you've erased mtd only, then stock OS is still intact on other mtds. So you only need to restore u-boot image on mtd0 to go back to full stock.
>
> The reason why I wanted to try the official FW was
> that I just bought this NAS second hand, and I
> jumped straight to Debian, before testing the
> speeds. Now I'm getting about 70MBps read and
> 40MBps write (on an SSD, just for testing). Some
> benchmarks on the internet showed 100/80, but I
> also read similar results to mine. So a bit
> confused there, and wanted to check it myself.
Yes, that would be expected. Since stock FW was tuned and tested (often in a way that we don't want to do, i.e. kludge) to maximize the performance (how they were able to sell the box). What I provided here is a basic rootfs and full kernel. I expect users to do the tuning themselves and share the hints here to benefit all.
So if you see the IO or network performance is less than stock FW, you should post the benchmarks, and let other jump in to share theirs. At the end, if nobody figures out the tuning parameters, then I'd try to investigate.
One more thing, a lot of time, it is just how you set up your Samba, NFS, network ... that results in less performance.