GoFlex Home next to useless as standard!

[peaslaker]

I've spent a few hours looking at the GoFlex Home in standard form and refining the approach to installing Arch Linux ARM install Linux on it. There are practical difficulties in returning a modified GoFlex Home back to standard format as it uses a large UBIFS partition for its root filesystem (400MB tarball)

After due consideration I am of the opinion that there is no down side to overwriting the Axentra Hipserv system and never going back. The Hipserv software doesn't appear to have the slightest bit of innovation. Disk formatting options are NTFS and FAT. Sharing is Samba only. It is a hack job to get it to do anything in a non-Windowsy way.

I've spent many hours refining the method of making Arch Linux ARM install installation a transparently, reversible hack on Pogoplug devices. For the GoFlex Home I quite honestly cannot see the point of making it reversible.

Goodbye Hipserv, hello Arch Linux ARM install. Good riddance.