Thank you. With your help I found this page https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/targets/kernelversionsOpenWRT Master is on 5.4 and 5.10 (for some targets)...
Can you suggest any combination of HW and SW that works good with exFat in the high end of the spectrum (preferably an AX-router). Cost is secondary.The kernel version alone isn't sufficient, the firmware also needs to be designed to recognize and handle exFAT disks. Likewise, a router, may be using an older kernel, but use a third party driver to add support for it. You will have to specifically look for exFAT support.
Repurpose an computer/laptop and create an network share.Can you suggest any combination of HW and SW that works good with exFat in the high end of the spectrum (preferably an AX-router). Cost is secondary.
I want to connect a ≈ 10 TB mechanical disk to the router and share it on the network for backup purposes.
Can you suggest any combination of HW and SW that works good with exFat in the high end of the spectrum (preferably an AX-router). Cost is secondary.
I want to connect a ≈ 10 TB mechanical disk to the router and share it on the network for backup purposes.
Too noicy, waste of space, probably wastes energy/generates heat, another device to keep updated.Repurpose an computer/laptop and create an network share.
What's wrong with exFat? I had the impression that it was a reasonable general purpose FS. I have it on my Lacie Fuel and it seems to work fine, being stable etc.exFAT is a lousy choice - if it's just being shared to the network you're better off running a linux native filesystem ( ideally ext3 or better as on a drive that big you really want a journalled filesystem)
What is the bottleneck? The router CPU? I thought high end AX-routers or so had pretty powerful CPUs? The purpose is backups that will run in the middle of the night when the router will be idle anyway. Don't you think its CPU can handle this without too much effort under such circumstances?but as someone else already said why even bother with the drive being direct attached to the router - speed will be throttled for sure, and 1-2 bay dedicated NAS's are cheap and do the job so much better (even a lowly ds120j would be better performing)
What's wrong with exFat? I had the impression that it was a reasonable general purpose FS. I have it on my Lacie Fuel and it seems to work fine, being stable etc.
What is the bottleneck? The router CPU? I thought high end AX-routers or so had pretty powerful CPUs? The purpose is backups that will run in the middle of the night when the router will be idle anyway. Don't you think its CPU can handle this without too much effort under such circumstances?
Yes, but does that matter? Is a file server so demanding on the CPU?a cheap dual core celeron NAS will run rings around any SOC you'll find in a consumer router, if you want real speed grab one with a 2.5gbe or 10gbe NIC in it (ideally a 2-bay or greater and run raid0 to get the array speed up to match the network speed)
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