Can unRAID mount FreeBSD filesystem?

[Gunnar_L]

Hi guys.

I´m setting up a HP microserver with unRAID, to get proper backup for my data and mediacollection.

Work is progressing, shares in place, unMenu in place, but I have two special questions.

 

I would now like to try to recover files from an old 500Gb disk from a Sony RDR-HDX1070 which only intermittently works in the player, and put those movies on the unRAID share, if at all possible.

I plugged the disk into one of the bays in the server, sometimes it finds it at boot, sometimes not....

If found, fdisk -l gives me that it´s on /dev/sdd, and the filesystem is FreeBSD.

I tried the snap.sh which only gives me a grep error

Mount -t ufs /dev/sdd /mnt returns "unknown filesystem"

mount /dev/sdd /mnt returns "can´t read superblock"

 

Could someone please help me?

I´m rather a newbie at Linux (15 years ago I tried CAD on a Redhat box, nothing since then), so please be patient with me on this.

 

 

The other question might be easier to answer: Is it possible to run XBMC on top of unRAID (use the same computer for storage and streaming?

 

Best regards

Gunnar

[Joe L.]

Hi guys.

I´m setting up a HP microserver with unRAID, to get proper backup for my data and mediacollection.

Work is progressing, shares in place, unMenu in place, but I have two special questions.

 

I would now like to try to recover files from an old 500Gb disk from a Sony RDR-HDX1070 which only intermittently works in the player, and put those movies on the unRAID share, if at all possible.

I plugged the disk into one of the bays in the server, sometimes it finds it at boot, sometimes not....

If found, fdisk -l gives me that it´s on /dev/sdd, and the filesystem is FreeBSD.

I tried the snap.sh which only gives me a grep error

Mount -t ufs /dev/sdd /mnt returns "unknown filesystem"

mount /dev/sdd /mnt returns "can´t read superblock"

 

Could someone please help me?

I´m rather a newbie at Linux (15 years ago I tried CAD on a Redhat box, nothing since then), so please be patient with me on this.

 

 

The other question might be easier to answer: Is it possible to run XBMC on top of unRAID (use the same computer for storage and streaming?

 

Best regards

Gunnar

freeBSD sounds like an operating system, not a file-system type.

 

xbmc will certainly not run on stock unRAID.  It might be possible on a full slackware install, but you'll be fighting to get it to run, if it can at all.  unRAID has no sound drivers, so the only sound it can make is a "beep" through the server speaker.  Somehow, that is not as exciting as the native sound-tracks.

 

Joe L.

[Gunnar_L]

....freeBSD sounds like an operating system, not a file-system type.

 

xbmc will certainly not run on stock unRAID.   It might be possible on a full slackware install, but you'll be fighting to get it to run, if it can at all.   unRAID has no sound drivers, so the only sound it can make is a "beep" through the server speaker.  Somehow, that is not as exciting as the native sound-tracks.

 

Joe L.

 

Thank´s Joe L.

 

That´s what I thought too. Searching the net for FreeBSD file system support gives me that it could be UFS, UFS2 or perhaps ZFS on that disk. So the question is, does unRAID support any of those filesystems, or can it be made to?

 

 

Thank´s also for clarifying the XBMC question.

 

Gunnar