Hi,

I recently had my existing "NAS" (A desktop system running FreeBSD+zfs) die and decided to buy something actually designed to be a NAS.

For better or worse, I thought I'd try a ugreen DXP2800.

In short: the hardware is nice, but the software is driving me nuts. Perhaps it's good for beginners, but I've been using UNIX systems for decades, and some of the things it does seem a bit questionable to me.

For example:

• the permissions system it offers up on the UI don't map well to unix permissions.
• You can only NFS export a top-level "shared folder".
• It has a tendency to create files 777.
• Just now I found I was unable to chmod -R a directory tree because it runs out of file descriptors (never seen that before!).
• I've seen ls -al show different UNIX permissions depending if you run it as root or a normal user.
• It only lets you enable ssh for 6 hours at a time (why?).

I'm starting to think this thing has too much opaque non-standard magic going on under the hood, and it's making me feel uncomfortable.

Has anyone tried installing their own OS on this hardware? I'm considering installing alpine or maybe Debian on it -- assuming that the btrfs volume i created using UGOS would be usable there (does anyone know?).

What are other people's thoughts/experiences with ugreen NASs?

Cheers