TL;DR: new v4 firmware with standard pagesize (4k) or semi official debian repository desired
Is there any chance to get a debian compatible version of the firmware?
I bought your device so i can customize the installation with some standard debian packages. Now I have to stay on V3. Or is there an other solution?
Building the packages myself is not an option (disk space, build time, manual dependency resolution, etc.) as there are too many manual steps involved.
On top of what larryg0 had explained, if not mistaken the recent was the 4th v4 firmwares released. Looks like it will be permanent so all hopes aside.
There’s another 4k based OMV produced by one of the users here, Fox_exe. You could give it a try. As much as I wanted clean Debian, I’m sticking with the v4 firmwares as I prioritise storage. Apps could go elsewhere as seems to me the 64k page size memory is giving stable and better transfer rate, peak v3=81MBps vs v4=109MBps.
I understand that WD is not interested in providing a clean debian or even compatability to anything. I didn’t know that there seem to be a speed gain with pagesize=64k. And if thats the case I’m all in with that change.
But I think that WD has also quite a community among the power users. So they should be interested in supporting those users as well.
And it should be obvious that an (semi) official repository by WD is more trusted than a community driven effort.
Currently I’m trying to setup a repository with automated package generation.
