Practical Homelab

Tag: xpenology

  • Attempts to fix corrupted BTRFS volume in DSM

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    I was restarting a Docker container in my NAS’ DiskStation and I suddenly got a warning that my primary volume is mounted in read-only mode. Checking dmesg, I saw an error about corrupted leaf. At this point, I don’t have an idea how BTRFS works, and no idea what is a leaf. I spent two…

  • Segfault on emulated NVME as SSD Cache

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    I had an idea to emulate an NVME and try to use it as cache in Synology DSM. I get to a point where it tried to mount the cache, then I get a segfault.

  • Xpenology NVR – DVA3219 + GTX 1060 Works

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    I continued with my Xpenology Experiments when I remember that there was an NVR that’s using an older version of Nvidia GPU: DVA3219. It’s officially paired with GTX 1050Ti which is the same generation of the GPU I have in hand. I checked if any of the bootloaders have support with DVA3219 platform, arpl-i18n does…

  • Xpenology NVR Experiments

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    This all started when I was looking if there’s a new way to “trick” DSM’s Surveillance Station to increase camera limit. I stumbled a post to just use an DVA1622 (NVR-specific NAS) and I’ll automatically get 8 licenses without resorting to use an old Surveillance Station apk. When I checked Xpenology forum, I saw there’s…

  • Fixing Synology DSM Crashed Volume

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    One of my DSM virtual instance had a crashed volume. A crashed volume doesn’t necessarily mean lost data. It crashed for some reason and DSM suggests you to copy your data elsewhere before it becomes worst. However, my instance is a virtual machine using a network block storage device that has it’s own protection built-in.…