Upgrade report: Wheezy -> Jessie on TS-419P+ and TS-212P
Hello everyone,
I was recently investigating whether it was safe to upgrade several QNAP
NAS units to Jessie. Unfortunately, I found very little info on this
and what I did find suggested there might be problems, in particular an
unanswered post to this list made on april 5th:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2015/04/msg00032.html
I decided to post here about my experiences in order to provide some
useful information to others considering upgrading Debian on their QNAP
NASes.
I eventually upgraded one of my TS-419P+ units, after ensuring I have
everything needed to use the rescue mode and revert the upgrade.
Luckily, the installation went through without any trouble. Although the
process was quite time consuming (didn't measure but probably around 2
hours), there were no errors and the system rebooted into the new kernel
without any problems.
I have since also upgraded a TS-212P unit without problems, and will be
upgrading more units of either type in the near future. Naturally I will
report if I run into any issues.
Details for both upgraded units:
- Storage configuration: LVM on top of mdadm RAID1
- Root fs type: ext4
- default sources.list; locally compiled packages installed for xnbd but
nothing else
- network configuration: static for TS-419P+, DHCP client for TS-212P
In short, it would appear to me that the Wheezy -> Jessie upgrade is
safe for these units in general, and any possible remaining problems
would have to be due to configuration specifics.
regards,
Arjen
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