Hello,
first post to the forum.
I have a WD My Cloud, 1-bay, gen2, 4TB device. As it seems it runs on the following (or similar) SOC (taken from Marvell's website):
Dual-core Cortex A9 ARMv7 CPU with NEON SIMD and Floating Point Unit (FPU)
Up to 1GHz per core
Symmetrical/asymmetric multiprocessing (SMP/AMP) operational modes
32 KB-instruction/data (4-way) set associative L1 cache per core
256 KB shared and unified 16-way set associative L2 cache
High-bandwidth, low-latency coherency fabric
High-speed, low-latency, tightly coupled DDR3/3L DRAM memory controller with advanced transaction re-ordering and prefetch engine
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet PHYs with EEE
USB3.0/USB2.0
Four multiplexed high-speed SERDES interfaces
Advanced I/O peripherals, including PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 2.0x1, SATA 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet ports
Audio, TDM, SDIO 2.0 and Flash interfaces
Supports boot from NAND, SPI, SATA, PCIe or UART
Acceleration engines for storage and security
Advanced power management
Integrated power-on-reset supervisory circuits
RTC and thermal sensor
TFBGA 19 x 19 mm, 0.65 mm ball pitch, green-compliant package
`/proc/cpuinfo` gives (for brevity showing one core only):
processor : 0
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 1594.16
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x4
CPU part : 0xc09
CPU revision : 1
processor : 1
I want to install OpenMediaVault on it. I know, that there is such a project (Clean OS (Debian), OpenMediaVault and other “firmwares”) by fellow WD forum member 'fox_exe', but I did not try it since in one of his comments he stated, that he dislikes the idea of running the system from RAM, since it has only 512MB here, therefore I assume, he may have abandoned what I call the "Lobby".
The "Lobby" is a root filesystem, that has been mounted as Ram Disk. System administration (both via SSH and WWW) happen here. Therefore the mechanical disk only spins up, when accessed. Since it is placed right next to my writing desk and I have no other means to place it, this is a bliss. Otherwise the noise is pretty nasty. I want to keep it that way. That is, running system from a silent drive, either RAM or USB, latter one ideally mounted read only with some filesystem overlay, that gets stored to harddisk upon request.
Since OMV now can now be ran from flash (a plugin helps here) I want to give it a go!
Research over the last week has led me here. I feel I am just "that close" before scoring a goal! :-) It seems, @tkaiser (and maybe others) has (have) invested some serious effort in creating OMV images based on Armbian and you folks have support for at least two Armada based boards using 'armhf' architecture . However, all builds here are highly hardware-specific and I don't know how to (and if to) proceed. Best, for me, would be, if one of the builds could be run on my system, with little or no modification.
Since I'd like to run from a read-only disk, I'd need a fs-overlay, and according to your documentation (https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Advanced-Features/#how-to-freeze-your-filesystem), this currently only exists for a single release, not the one I'd need, so this may require some tweaking on my side.
I hope you can help me.
P.S. What is it with the forum editor, that it does not let me do actions over marked text, and when using the action dialog (add URL and text) it does not apply it, instead dialog stays open and nothing happens? I switched off ad-blocker, got JS on, and am using a Chrome derivate (Vivaldi). Just a minor issue, but thought you may be interested.
So long, Andreas
