New update available

openmediavault 6.3.12

  • Prevent custom network interface search domain settings from being overwritten by settings provided via DHCP.

New update available

openmediavault 6.3.11

  • Update locale files.
  • Upgrade Salt to version 3005.1.
  • Issue #1485: Add option to enforce transport encryption per SMB share. Defaults to disabled.
  • Issue #1542: Add transmit hash policy support to bond network interfaces.

NOTE … You’ll face the following error message during the Salt package installation.

[ERROR   ] Unable to connect pusher: Stream is closed

You can ignore them, the Salt code will be patched by the openmediavault package during installation. After that, there will be no more of these error messages from Salt.

What is wrong with some Open-Source-Software (OSS) users?

A few days ago I received another email which made me wonder what is going on with some Open-Source-Software (OSS) users.

… Try fresh install as I described to you and do your job and fix this ridiculous bug.

First of all, the writer here has quite the wrong tone. Secondly, I have already done my job by extensively testing the functionality before publishing. Of course, it always happens that things run differently at the user than in the development or test environment.

What always saddens me is the fact that some users think they can make demands on software that is created by developers in their spare time and then provided to them for free. How can you make claims on a software and its developers that is free? With paid software I can understand that, but with OSS? In my opinion, many users do not see the difference between commercially driven OSS and those created by volunteers in their spare time. Projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Ceph or OpenOffice, to name a few, are supported by vendors who have a commercial interest and have paid developers working on these projects for this purpose. Such projects have naturally set the bar pretty high for users. It is clear that many users then apply this bar to other OSS projects. However, users should not forget how open source works and where it comes from. In most cases, OSS is driven by enthusiastic developers in their spare time and made available to the community for free.

New update available

openmediavault 6.3.10

  • Issue #1537: `findmnt` is using tree-like output on some systems which breaks the parsing of the content.
  • Enhance the UDEV rules to workaround the duplicate serial number bug of various disk enclosures. Now the `disk/by-uuid` symlinks are created as well if a file system UUID exists.

New update available

openmediavault 6.3.9

  • Add the environment variable OMV_BTRFS_SCRUB_PERIOD. The supported values are weekly and monthly. Defaults to monthly.
  • Relocate the Cron Btrfs scrubbing script into a separate CLI tool named omv-btrfs-scrub. If you need to run the scrub jobs at a certain date, you may disable the build-in cron jobs via the environment variable OMV_BTRFS_SCRUB_ENABLED. Finally, create your custom scheduled tasks via the UI by typing omv-btrfs-scrub in the Command form field.
  • Add UDEV rule to fix the duplicate serial number issue on Qnap TR-004 devices.
  • Perform scheduled Btrfs scrub and scan tasks on file system mount points rather than devices.
  • Fix hdparm configuration. Use force_spindown_time to apply settings to non-APM devices.