View It Now for SNAP OS 4.X
March 4, 2009 by Dick Correa
Filed under SNAP Server File System
The original SNAP NAS devices were developed by SNAP Appliance. The operating system that was used was a flavor of BSD in concert with the file system UFS. Although the file system looks very similar to the original UFS there were some subtle changes...
[Read more...]Analyzing RAID parity
July 23, 2008 by Dick Correa
Filed under File Systems Explained, RAID Recovery Explained, SNAP Server File System
Last time I discussed how to find the RAID data offset for a SNAP OS 4.x RAID handler. To put it briefly it was just a simple matter of finding Cylinder Group zero on the first drive in the array and back tracking 48 sectors. Once the RAID data offset...
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