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LaCie Network Space Users Unite!

Fellow LaCie Network Space users, not doubt, many of you, like myself, purchased this NAS thinking it could be tweaked, configurated and hacked. Perhaps most of you have realised this is not the case. The LaCie resembles a brick that stares at you stupidly as you try to figure out what it does and how far you can push it.

If you have tried to contact LaCie customer service, you may have realised why the LaCie stares at you like a dumb brick.

So, let us pool our resources and knowledge to crack the LaCie open and hack it to our licking.

I have been searching the web for Network Space related info and would appreciate any info fellow users might have to add.

There is a Wiki over at nas-central.org that you should help populate!

If you have any tips, tricks, ideas, info on the LaCie Network Space, make sure to add it to the wiki. Let us pool our resources and knowledge to be able to gain the freedom to manage, hack, use and extend out LaCie Network Space.

Related links I found while searching:

http://forum.nas-portal.org/showthread.php?t=4201
http://community.lionhead.com/forums/thread/3292364.aspx
http://www.computerbase.de/forum/showthread.php?t=535181

LaCie NetworkSpace and Source Code

Several months ago, I posted about comments by LaCie tech support staff, that the NetworkSpace was no longer being developed.

Looking through the log files of the NetworkSpace, it is obvious that the system uses a Linux kernel and open source software.

So the first through that struck me, was to request LaCie to publish the source code, in line with the GPL licence for example. LaCie has in fact released  source code for othe products, such as the 2big Network or LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID.

Tech suppot was rather quick to answer, and informed me that only certain parts of the source code may be released, but there is no set date for this.