Reading a ReiserFS disk using Ubuntu Live CD

GoogalyMoogaly · 13 Oct 2011 at 23:23

Hi,

I've currently got a Thecus N1200 NAS drive with a 1TB disk in it.
The Thecus NAS drive is slow and noisy so I bought a new Qnap NAS and new drive. Unfortunately I have around 400GB of stuff on the NAS and it has a read speed of around 16MB/s. So I reckon that'd take around about 7 hours to copy across, if I'm lucky!
What I was hoping to do was plug the drive from the NAS into my PC and copy it across that way.

My PC runs Windows, but i do have a Ubuntu LIVE CD. I was wondering, if I boot from that, could I read the ReiserFS formatted drive from the Thecus?

Thanks all.

Scougar · 13 Oct 2011 at 23:30

can you plug the nas directly into the other one and copy it off?

GoogalyMoogaly · 14 Oct 2011 at 20:17

For anyone interested, the answer would appear to be, no.

inSilica · 15 Oct 2011 at 09:55

this doesn't sound right - it's NAS (Network Attached Storage)

Hook both up to a router - using their built in nfs/smbfs interfaces, use computer, access from any livecd and do the transfer ... whats the problem?

I guess these interfaces must be enabled to start with.

GoogalyMoogaly · 15 Oct 2011 at 11:59

inSilica said:
this doesn't sound right - it's NAS (Network Attached Storage)

Hook both up to a router - using their built in nfs/smbfs interfaces, use computer, access from any livecd and do the transfer ... whats the problem?

I guess these interfaces must be enabled to start with.

Not quite sure what you're saying here.
I've got them both connected to a switch (my router only has 100mbps network ports, the switch has 1000mbps). I can access them both from in Windows I don't need a LIVE CD for that, but the Thecus only has a read speed of 16-20MB/s. Now I'm pretty sure the Samsung F3 HDD has faster read speed than this. So I was hoping to connect both drives up via SATA II and copy the data this way. Obviously Windows wont read a ReiserFS directly so I was hoping to use a LIVE CD.

Are you saying that the speed issue on the Thecus is caused by it having to convert from its native FS? Would this be improved if the OS accessing it was Linux? Would the NAS know it didn't need to convert FS if I used a LIVE CD?

Earth[Tera].bin · 15 Oct 2011 at 13:47

In the two days between your posts, you could have copied the whole 400G back and forth , back and forth

Like yourself, if copying over the network was proving painfully slow, I would have removed the drives and connected them to my PC. Booted up a linux live cd ( probably sysrescuecd ), mounted both the NAS drives and just let it transfer away.

GoogalyMoogaly · 15 Oct 2011 at 14:32

Earth[Tera].bin;20313646 said:
In the two days between your posts, you could have copied the whole 400G back and forth , back and forth

This is what I ended up doing, well obviously not back and forth, back and forth!

Earth[Tera].bin;20313646 said:
Like yourself, if copying over the network was proving painfully slow, I would have removed the drives and connected them to my PC. Booted up a linux live cd ( probably sysrescuecd ), mounted both the NAS drives and just let it transfer away.

I thought it should be fairly simple but Ubuntu didn't want to display the contents of the ReiserFS drive. Pity, it would've saved a fair amount of time, but it's not been too bad really. I was just curious to see if there was a quicker way.