USB Drive, write errors

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi, i have an external USB samsung USB 3 drive. It works fine on my old router Asus RT-AC5300 running merlin. I bought another router on the weekend (D-Link DIR-2640 A1), installed OpenWrt on it (OpenWrt 22.03.3 r20028-43d71ad93e / LuCI openwrt-22.03 branch git-22.361.69894-438c598) along with HFSPlus drivers. I got the thing mounted, and then shared a drive. Finally got the read/write working as i had to put in a script in rc-login to unmount, do file check, and then remount

root@OpenWrt:/etc# cat rc.local
# Put your custom commands here that should be executed once
# the system init finished. By default this file does nothing.

{
    echo "*** Mounted dirs *************************"
    ls /mnt
    echo "*** Unmounting disk **********************"
    umount /mnt/sda3
    echo "*** Performing fsck **********************"
    fsck.hfsplus /dev/sda3
    echo "*** Remounting disk **********************"
    mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3
    echo "*************************"
} 2>&1 > /tmp/rc.local.logs

exit 0
root@OpenWrt:/etc#

now my problem is that i can grab files (usually approx 1 GB or bigger) from the drive no problem via the share. However, when i write a file larger than about 2K, the file copy just hangs, and no error. I thought might be the drive so i hooked it back up to the ASUS RT-AC5300, and no issues.

Is there an error log i can look at? I checked under status->System Log, but it doesn't have any hard drive errors in it. Perhaps it is because i am running HFSPlus drive with journal enabled?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance !

Jeremy

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I believe that the HFS+ drivers aren't all that well supported these days. Is there a reason you must use this filesystem? You'll probably have better luck with ext4 or fat.

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Thank-you! I am going to get another drive anyway, so will give it a try with a different filesystem. The reason I had HFS+ was i initially used it with my airport extreme.