NAS-Central & Foonas Weblog

Quoted from the article General_NAS_customisation_guide:

“The time when i started hacking on my first NAS (the first generation Linkstation) in 2005 there was no general article or guide how to hack it at all. The only thing that was existing at these days were reviews. Actually many NAS-hacking-communities have emerged the past years with wikis/forums/mailings lists….but still nobody ever wrote a general article about how to start hacking them, and what should be done to channel development efforts and how to start a new community. This article should cover exactly this, treat it as a source of base information and as a loose guide as all devices are different and many things have to be redone each time for each new box. As NAS are embedded devices you can use this guide for hacking your embedded router as well.

I hope others are joining me in the challenge of creating this guide“

In case you already have a NAS device (or if you plan to buy a NAS because of christmas), take a look at the global NAS hacking communities overview. This page was created to help you to find the right NAS community (which hacks your box) or to support you if you are investigating which NAS devices are supported by a community.

Several subwikis were created for the NAS-scene. The plan is to submit general articles and howtos to the main wiki at NAS Central and to put all the device specific information to the subwikis. As the NSLU2-Linux community faced the problem that they hacked several devices but still had all of them on the http://nslu2-linux.org page it was confusing for many users. This should change now. Please submit hardware info to the several subwikis by clicking on the device you have and enter some information in the table.

• Buffalo Devices
• D-Link devices
• Iomega devices
• Lacie devices
• Linksys devices
• Maxtor devices
• QNAP devices
• Synology devices

Expect general vendor-independent news here on this blog in the future.

Today we are able to confirm that we are commencing work on a dedicated iSCSI target distribution called foonas-iscsi. This will be similar to foonas-em in size and reside in firmware on supported devices. Currently it is in very early stages of development, more information will be made available as this progresses!