Poukin

Hi, After reading a post about NAS for allwinner, I need some advices: So far I have same performance on my raspberry pi b+ and my orangepi2e : 2 hard drives 2 To 2,5" usb on a powered hub. (approx 11 Mb/s max through AFP/nfs share). Gigabit does not seem to be the bottleneck on the pi since it does not impact my bit rates. My question is simple : can I have better performance if I make a RAID via btrfs ? Do I have to format my hard drives ? What is the best distro ? (I used armbian but does not seem very stable compared to the raspberry, what about ubuntu server, or raspbian ?) Thanks

It seems that since I installed it on eMMC, I no longer have the possibility to download another, theme, am I wrong ?

Thank you I managed to install openelec on emmc thanks to your script.

Hi, Thanks for your answer and your work on openelec which allows my orangepi to be useful. In fact my primary objective was to have armbian installed, and kodi installed on it, as well as other tools (hfsprogs for the NAS, etc...), like a "bleeding edge" install. With Openelec I must swap my sd cards because there is just kodi on that OS. That is why I asked if there were "unbroken ISOS", ie functionnal kodi/hfs/ethernet in my case, but it is not about openelec image but linux distros available for the pi. But for the moment I have Openelec and I am very happy with it, but I would have liked to benefit from the fast gigabyte 10/100 to make a NAS. By the way Iam looking forward booting openelec from the MMC, is there a simple way to copy the content of the SD card to boot from the MMC ?

Ok, so i have to reformat my hard drive. Which filesystem do you advise : ext4 ? And then I Can(t make a NAS with the orangepi + kodi player in bleeding edge ? I must have a sd card with openelec ? But on my Raspberry pi : NAS with hfs+ works like a charm (but quite slow due to the USB shared bandwidth), and netatalk works great too (like a TimeCapsule). I won't be able to have these features on the orangepi ? Thanks

In fact I prefered ext4 on my hard disks on the pi using SAMBA, using the pi as a NAS. But ext4 was terrible on OSX (even with paragon extfs or macfuse installed), whereas hfs works fine on debian on the Raspberry Pi with hfsprogs/hfsutils (only drawback : 5 mb transfer rate instead of 11 mb/s in ext4). That's the reason I formatted my drives in HFS, because ext4 became corrupted easily and unreadable in OSX (and I never suceeded in making it readable in a virtual machine). So if I understand I have to use a legacy kernel or I just have to wait for hfs support ? Thanks

Thanks for your answer. I come from a Raspberry pi, with debian and all linux toys on it (including Kodi), I thought it was the same but I seem to be naive.

In short we have to wait.

Ich. Thanks for your response, I will wait next release. As for Kodi, do you know why it is not working while working fine in Openelec ?

Hi everybody, I need some help because I can't make my OPIPlus2e working the way I want. If I understood well I have to install latest armbian, and copy/past script.bin, but sometimes ethernet is not recognized. I tried every distros on my orangepi2e, but I can't install things like kodi (refuses to start, missing libs), or making work hfs drive (can't mount hfs although hfsprogs well installed). I ended up installing openelec and it works great, but I would like to do a NAS with it. Is it still in active development or there is working ISO ? Thank you very much. Best regards, Poukin