Firmware 04.05.00-334 (3/12/19) Discussion

[Bennor]

@rac8006

One problem with rolling your own is that the jnl.ko and ufsd.ko will not work with most kernels you would build.

Yes. rolling your own presents potential additional issues from packages that may not work. It’s one of the trade offs unfortunately.

For anyone who want’s to give rolling their own a try the following post/thread has discussion on how to (try) and do so.

[GUIDE] Building packages for the new firmware... someone tried it?

How to successfully build packages for WD My Cloud from source   The WD My Cloud comes with a Debian wheezy system on it. However WD customized that in a way that it is hardly possible (if not impossible at all) to install new packages using the standard “apt-get install <package name>” way, especially when you update the device firmware to version 4.x or later. The latest firmware, in fact, uses a modified Debian system with 64K sized memory pages: if you install a package using “apt-get inst…

Or one could try one of Fox_Exe’s alternate firmwares.
Clean debian: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVeGtBa1JRellmdXM
Open Media Vault: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVSHdDUnZXZWJBMUk
Or Synology DSM: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVY0hQNUtCTkNkS2M
But those to present their own issues with the first gen My Cloud. And require additional knowledge (and Linux experience) to install to the My Cloud first gen hard drive.