I've just been playing around with a QNAP TS-639 Pro, and apparently it wasn't able anymore to boot from the internal 'DOM' (disk on module). First try to 'flash' a firmware update available on their website failed.. Why...? Looks like they're encrypted by default, so useless if ...

I just recently started to play around with software RAID's under linux, and I thought I'll share a piece of code to watch the progress of a raid-rebuild.

``` {.lang:sh .decode:true} || user@workstation ~ || while [ 1 ] ; do clear ; cat /proc/mdstat ; sleep 5; done

Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1 ...