Re: flash-kernel puts QNAP on its knees

2015-09-12 Thread Rob J. Epping
On 11-9-2015 9:51, JM wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Rob J. Epping wrote: > >> I hacked flash-kernel to use flashcp from mtd-utils. Where using cat >> triggers ATA timeout and reset, using flashcp worked flawlessly. >> >> >> GRTNX, >> RobJE > > That's great news! Would you mind sharing

Re: flash-kernel puts QNAP on its knees

2015-09-11 Thread JM
On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Rob J. Epping wrote: > I hacked flash-kernel to use flashcp from mtd-utils. Where using cat > triggers ATA timeout and reset, using flashcp worked flawlessly. > > > GRTNX, > RobJE > That's great news! Would you mind sharing the diff for flash-kernel? Regards, Jan

Re: flash-kernel puts QNAP on its knees

2015-09-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-09-06 at 13:02 +0200, Rob J. Epping wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/21/2015 02:11 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sun, 2015-08-09 at 09:39 +0200, JM wrote: > >> > >> This is just a hunch, but perhaps a part of the problem is because > >> flash-kernel simply cats the image to mtdblock, which is

Re: flash-kernel puts QNAP on its knees

2015-09-06 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi, On 08/21/2015 02:11 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2015-08-09 at 09:39 +0200, JM wrote: This is just a hunch, but perhaps a part of the problem is because flash-kernel simply cats the image to mtdblock, which is not the recommended way to deal with flash storage [1]. I'm afraid I disagr

Re: flash-kernel puts QNAP on its knees

2015-08-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-08-09 at 09:39 +0200, JM wrote: > > This is just a hunch, but perhaps a part of the problem is because > flash-kernel simply cats the image to mtdblock, which is not the > recommended way to deal with flash storage [1]. I'm afraid I disagree with this, cat-ing to mtdblock is IMHO a

Re: flash-kernel puts QNAP on its knees

2015-08-09 Thread JM
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Luca De Feo wrote: > Hello, > > I have Debian stretch running on a QNAP TS-412, and I am having > serious problems lately with updates. > > When flash-kernel is triggered by update-initramfs, the ssh connection > becomes laggy. First time it happened, I was kicked

flash-kernel puts QNAP on its knees

2015-08-08 Thread Luca De Feo
Hello, I have Debian stretch running on a QNAP TS-412, and I am having serious problems lately with updates. When flash-kernel is triggered by update-initramfs, the ssh connection becomes laggy. First time it happened, I was kicked out, and any successive attempts to ssh failed with a "Broken pip