Hello everybody,
First of all, thanks for this awesome community ! I have followed for a long time what was happening here, but never subscribed, being afraid with the high technical level I see all around .
I purchased my Zyxel NSA325 v2 after that one of my harddrive containing most of my pictures failed, so I decided I wanted to have a RAID system.
I chose the NSA325 specifically because I could install Archlinux on it, because I had some years ago a proprietary NAS which crashed, and with proprietary NAS come proprietary RAID utility and everything. So I said, no more, I want standard linux utility in case something bad happens one day, I could still recover the data.
However, I have had a problem for a long time with my NSA325.
I have installed Archlinux on the left harddrive, with
/dev/sda1 /boot
/dev/sda2 /
/dev/sda3 swap
/dev/sda4 raided with /dev/sdb4 to make /dev/md0 where are all my pictures
however, in my /etc/fstab
if /dev/sda1 , /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3 are OK,
when I try to mount my /dev/md0 (or the corresponding UUID), the system gets non responding and I have to chroot on an external box to remove the line of the /dev/md0 from my fstab for the NAS to be ssh-able again. And as there is systemd installed, I can't see what's happening behind the scenes during the faulty boot, because it doesn't even appear in my journald.
Same goes if I try to add to my fstab my external USB drives plugged behind.
And believe me I have tried all the possible options of the fstab, with systemd.automount, systemd.requiresmount, ...
I haven't updated the UBoot, I'm afraid to pacman -S uboot-nsa325 , because I have heard many horror stories related to Uboot .
I really would like it to work now because I will leave for an other country soon, and in case of a storm or a power surge or something, my family can't possibly know how to mount the harddrives or anything, and I can't always remotely ssh into the box just to mount the harddrives .
Thanks a lot for your answers in advance =)
Y
PS : Oh and by the way, is it possible to setenv something so that when I plug in the AC, the NAS automatically boot and start, without having to press on the power button ?