DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

What do you mean by chmod -R a+x?  I mean, I know what the command means, but are you saying when you upgrade your firmware it chmod's your whole drive?  If so, which version are you referring to?  Pardon the dumb question, just trying to clarify.

And to clarify further, this happens silently and without warning EVERY time you boot.
I believe it only affects drives that are mounted as part of the boot process so if you manually mount a USB drive later it should be safe (this is from memory so I may be wrong).

That said, I have still "outsmarted" myself once or twice here since I typically reload the kernel to put the original firmware on a USB root -- of course since the USB root filesystem that I use is intentionally a copy of the original unpacked firmware it too does the evil chmod a+w action and since I now have a USB root and some other USB mounts as part of my fstab, it merrily goes and chmod's all those mounted partitions too.

I am soo tempted just to mod my fimware to bleep out those lines!

This just bit me today (1.09 firmware) on one of my 323s; a quick forum search led me to this thread.  That is, indeed, EVIL.  Just plain evil.

At least I have 2 other 323s with nearly identical installs so I can do some trickery to figure out the best way to recover.

I had a sinking feeling when the reboot was taking longer than I expected, and the 323 was chugging on the disks pretty hard.  Now it makes sense.  EVIL.