rjgould

So I don't know about everyone else, but for myself I've had my helios64 running on Armbian 22.02 with the 5.15.93-rockchip64 kernel for some time. Mine is an on-lan ZFS replication target for my main NAS, i.e. overnight low power local part of my backup strategy. I always knew it was not performing to it's full potential but it doesn't fall over. The biggest challenge I had was getting OpenMediaVault 6 on it with the ZFS plugins from the extras repository. The upgrades around those broke so often I ended up learning Ansible so I could script the steps I was doing by hand. Also, because of the quirks and the "if it breaks, it's going to be painful" situation of it all, I stuck to running from the SD card, which I have an image of at a stable point on my main NAS. Every once in a while I would try to move it all forwards to newer versions, when it doesn't go so well I flash the SD card from the image and start reading the forums, which is what brought me back here 😅

I thought I was one of the only one out here still making use of one of these. Amazing to see it back in the supported section, thank you @prahal 👏 I need to read through more of the thread but I saw @ebin-dev & @TDCroPower both mentioning the 2.5G network link. Can I ask you both, did you have to apply the solder fix to get it working? (https://blog.kobol.io/2020/11/13/helios64-2-5g-ethernet-issue/)

I've actually just re-installed my Helios64 from scratch in an attempt to make it useful. I nabbed the latest Bullseye image from the archives and ran the updates. it's now running Armbian 22.02.1 with Linux 5.15.25-rockchip64. I've not noticed any stability issues so far 🤞 I also installed OMV6 on top without any errors. None of this was an upgrade though so your mileage may vary.