Can this be done?

[jrosado]

Hi:

I've got the asus wl-500gP with oleg firmware. I was wondering if the following can be done:

1. A small hard drive (i was considering the microdrive 4GB) connected to the usb port, used for the swap and for the programs partition

2. A big hard drive using NAS connected to a network port on the asus, where all the data from the transmission torrents would go.

Can this be done? Can i mount the NAS drive? What file system does the NAS drive must have? Can this drive be shared in the network?

The idea of using a network drive was to increase the speed of file transfer and decrease the cpu usage of the asus router.

Regards.

[jrosado]

Hi!

I come again with this question

Can anyone help?

[wpte]

yes this can be done
you need to install samba3 on the router, so you can mount a network drive

[velcrow]

I used this post -

http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=72300&postcount=24

and here is my setup

WD Passport in the USB running the oleg setup (/opt/ etc.) and then a NAS plugged into the LAN port ( WD MyBook World Edition )

Then in the post-mount startup script I have the following

#! /bin/sh

#unslung the scripts in /opt/etc/init.d
/opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung start

#load MBWE as a link from /tmp/harddisk/mybook
insmod /opt/module/smbfs.o
sleep 5
/opt/bin/smbmount //192.168.1.4/MEDIA /tmp/harddisk/media -o username=,password=

The first bit is as normal loading the unslung scripts in /opt/etc/init.d

then I load a module so I can mount the drive (smbfs.o) which I downloaded (see the post above) and copied in the /opt/module/ folder ( but you can store this anywhere)

Then I wait 5 seconds to make sure the module is loaded and then mount the NAS folder called MEDIA using the NAS IP 192.168.1.4 onto the tmp/harddisk/media folder on the USB drive (WD passport)

I am assuming that the NAS is shared on your network - can you tell us what type of NAS

[jrosado]

Hi:

Thanks for all the answers!

I'm considering this NAS from RaidSonic:

http://www.raidsonic.de/en/pages/pro..._objectID=5052

/opt/bin/smbmount

Why don't i have smbmount? Which package do i have to install?

Ok...forget this question..installed samba2 Already been hable to mount a shared folder on my main computer

Are you using transmission with it? Can you see any speed improvement?

[jrosado]

Ok..a couple of more questions:

Can i place the swap partition on the NAS?

How can i assure that the mount is done before transmission starts?

Regards.