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I have been wanting to buy one for what seems like months (a year?) now and they have not been able to do a production run due to the supply chain shortages (mainly screens, apparently). I follow them pretty closely, there was some hope maybe after CNY 2022 but then they announced no they could not source screens after all. So your information is really timely @hexdump, thanks a lot for that.

If I am recalling correctly, it was non-trivial (and thus, took some time) to figure out some solution that worked, in order to make this 'easy' for end users. It sounds like this broke now with kernel going up to 5.15. If I am interpreting this search for zfs Issues on our Jira instance correctly, it looks like the developers are aware of the issue(?). If you make any progress on figuring this out in the meantime, please do post back what you learned.

Generally speaking, yes, just burn to some other sd card and try to boot it and see if the new version works. Follow instructions in documentation. Whatever latest version is for that board, which can be found on download page. I don't own this hardware, I am assuming it will boot from inserted sd card first, but some devices don't work that way (most do).

So I would try uninstalling all those -edge-rockchip64 packages (or just flash new clean Armbian image) and then try to load that driver.

First thing I notice, is that's quite old version of Armbian, can you upgrade?

I think you did not give the most pertinent information. It depends what is your current topology. As redundancy is done at the vdev level in ZFS (if I am remembering my terminology correctly). Depending on that, it can be possible to upgrade in place. Topology will dictate how much effort that takes.

I see this a lot, and I am afraid it's a common misunderstanding. Debian is a distribution, they distribute (mostly user space) packages from various places. The kernels they get wholesale (from kernel.org, usually). Which is why the kernels in vanilla Debian (generally speaking) are going to be so far behind Armbian's (heavily patched and customized) kernels. In fact, this is essentially one of the main raisons d'être for Armbian in the first place. SBC/ARM is very different from x86, which is much more standardized on a hardware level. And that's also why, the user space comes pretty much straight from upstream vanilla Debian. Because that's not what we do here. Here we are focused on the (much more difficult) low level things, like kernels, bootloaders, etc. Where vanilla Debian do not. It will be nice if one day this is not the case, but I just don't see that happening in foreseeable future.

Yeah, I went ahead and put it into a spoiler (to fold away) but something that big (especially that likely exists publicly in some forge) I would have probably linked to, personally. Well, I give you credit for at least doing some investigation. Other than noticing the great length of that script, I will admit to not investing any time whatsoever studying it any further. However, my immediate thought is: Do you really want to rely on something so complex to continue to be maintained by a third party? Or to fork and maintain yourself? Especially given that bash scripting is admittedly not your cup of tea? Prior to seeing this script, I was already a bit skeptical about how far DietPi strays away from standard Debian ways of doing things. But that was based on very brief experience playing around with it only once some time ago. If we take a step back to the fundamental problem that is trying to be solved here, that seems to me essentially to be backup. And backup is good! However perhaps there is some other better way to go about that?

Do you have something against regular vanilla Debian? As a long time Debian user myself, I would feel much more out of my depth on Manjaro, personally.

Thanks for the info, I learned something. Video and graphical stuff is a bit out of my wheelhouse.

For your amusement, I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Bjarne Stroustrup, which I serendipitously came across (again) just yesterday:

No not really. I just like to gripe whenever things are deprecated in favor of 'modern' alternatives, especially ones that surely use (proprietary?) JavaScript. But I have used it, most recently for the last release announcement. When trying to convert the result of HedgeDoc site (Markdown) into the forum, using bbcode was my approach. I almost got it to work. I am not aware of anything else that might even come close to being scriptable. My understanding (from brief research at that time) was that Invision themselves have deprecated it a long time ago already. So I am only ribbing you a bit, not really sure how feasible it is for us to keep it. But there is also, for example, bbcode-mode in Emacs. And I do use Edit With Emacs (FF plug-in) quite often.

Not that I am aware of. Armbian is focused on much lower level things, like kernels, etc. Have you studied the script? Maybe you could adapt it (or even use it directly)?

I vaguely recall some other thread about 'watchdog breaking on newer kernel', did you search the forums?

Don't be discouraged if people don't see this right away. Maybe bump it again later. Well, here, take my bump. Those warnings are to scare off the tidal waves of people seeking free support through the back door, not for actual well thought out propositions like you are making here. Did you try playing with this locally yet?

Nice chart! So nice, in fact, that I will spare you the rms sermon.

If original guy has lost interest, maybe you guys would like to collaborate on an active fork. Assuming this is something you will be maintaining anyway for your own usage. This is the beauty (and opportunity) of F/LOSS. We have options in such cases.

Not only that, I have read bad things about it. Lots more info on the broader topic here, including some hardware recommendations further down. But Werner already basically gave you the tl; dr version. There is a link in that thread to another one though that is specifically about ROCKPro64 as NAS, including some discussion of specific SATA adapter cards and chipsets. Please do add your feedback there (or in PINE64 wiki, etc.).

No reason why it shouldn't, as that is just another user space package like any other (AFAIU). But maybe you can report back how it worked for you, for the benefit of the next person who comes along looking.

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Done. Next time @MichaIng (or anyone, really) please 'flag' the post to bring it to (all) moderator attention. I only happened to notice your request because I was skimming through the All Activity feed like I usually do.

Unfortunately not supported. I did not say not possible. There are some threads around the forums with hints, but you will be on your own. Better approach (IMO) is to learn / set up / maintain some better config management, which could be anything from a dotfiles repo to Ansible (or others) depending on your needs. Then the idea is you just run a few things after a fresh install, and you are right back where you were.

If the (one) disk is large enough, you could also dual boot.

Yes, once I started thinking about DIN rail, something like this was the next logical conclusion. Mounting the SBC themselves on some mount (in addition to just the power supply). So I looked into these, and found: some generic (mostly plastic) ones on AliExpress some nicer (some metal) ones from specialty suppliers ($$$) But all of the above were IMO much too expensive for what they are. And with the generic ones, no guarantee that your board would even fit. I guess you could check measurements and drill holes though. So in my mind, I thought 3d printing would be the best solution. Customized to particular boards. Or even better, a F/LOSS published CAD template for creating your own to spec. I didn't look far into that, but would be surprised if it did not already exist. Maybe even just source the plastic (or metal) DIN clips, and screw a piece of sheet metal to that, bent into an "L" shape (as in the picture). Drill holes as needed, use standard standoffs (which we should all already have an assortment of on hand IMO). Back to your specific request @Igor, I think such things may exist already on AliExpress(?). But it's been a while since I looked.

I was going to make a topic about this, but then I searched and found this one. I recently needed to replace power supply on my monitor. I ended up with Mean Well DIN rail one, because it was half the price of comparable brick. And it is like 500K MTBF or something like that. A real industrial power supply. Far, far better than the vast majority of cheap no name power supplies we are already probably running. In my case, it was certainly better than the cheap one that came with my Monoprice 30" monitor (the one I replaced). Anyway, there is a lot to like about DIN rail supplies (especially in concert with SBCs), so I don't think this will be my last one: You can run multiple SBC off one of these, distributing power through readily available (and inexpensive) terminal blocks. Besides terminal blocks, there is a wide array of existing components for these, as they are an industrial standard. They mount to wall or rack, saving space and making cable management easier. In my case, the DIN rail supply was half the price of comparable brick (not sure if I just got lucky, @lanefu in IRC reported the opposite). Long life and higher quality (being industrial supplies; assuming you go with a good brand like Mean Well). I am sure I am forgetting some things. Anyway, discuss.