[X4U] OT: NAS Slows to a Crawl

[Stroller]

On 10 May 2007, at 05:27, Neil wrote:
> ...
> I can't run Disk Utilities on the NAS because it isn't formatted  
> for Mac.

I believe it is formatted ext2.

> I restarted my Mac, but I haven't thought of restarting the NAS  
> until now.  I'll wait for my finder to stop spinning the beach ball  
> so I can unmount the NAS and reboot it.

It may have a webpage which you can log into to admin the unit (add  
users, shares &c). If so, use its reboot button. The Linux o/s in the  
NAS should run an fsck if the drive is not cleanly unmounted (i.e.:  
if the device is power-cycled) and ext2 is a very robust file-system,  
but that is no substitute for shutting down cleanly whenever  
possible. ext2 by default runs an fsck every 20 boots - if the  
Buffalo designers chose to make it do so more often (say, every time)  
it would slow boot times & surely result in lots of tech-support  
queries, but again there may be an option in the NAS's admin options  
to run a disk check.

Stroller.