Hello everyone, I was recently investigating whether it was safe to upgrade several QNAP NAS units to Jessie. Unfortunately, I found very little info on this and what I did find suggested there might be problems, in particular an unanswered post to this list made on april 5th:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2015/04/msg00032.html I decided to post here about my experiences in order to provide some useful information to others considering upgrading Debian on their QNAP NASes. I eventually upgraded one of my TS-419P+ units, after ensuring I have everything needed to use the rescue mode and revert the upgrade. Luckily, the installation went through without any trouble. Although the process was quite time consuming (didn't measure but probably around 2 hours), there were no errors and the system rebooted into the new kernel without any problems. I have since also upgraded a TS-212P unit without problems, and will be upgrading more units of either type in the near future. Naturally I will report if I run into any issues. Details for both upgraded units: - Storage configuration: LVM on top of mdadm RAID1 - Root fs type: ext4 - default sources.list; locally compiled packages installed for xnbd but nothing else - network configuration: static for TS-419P+, DHCP client for TS-212P In short, it would appear to me that the Wheezy -> Jessie upgrade is safe for these units in general, and any possible remaining problems would have to be due to configuration specifics. regards, Arjen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150509131606.gg19...@meeknet.nl
