After two years since the formation of the last significant branch, a stable release of the OpenMediaVault 6 distribution kit has been published, which allows you to quickly deploy network storage (NAS, Network-Attached Storage). The OpenMediaVault project was founded in 2009 after a split in the FreeNAS distribution camp, as a result of which, along with the FreeBSD-based classic FreeNAS, a fork was created, the developers of which set themselves the goal of moving the distribution to the Linux kernel and the Debian package base. OpenMediaVault installation images for x86_64 architecture (868 MB) have been prepared for download.
Main innovations:
- The package database has been updated to Debian 11 "Bullseye".
- A new user interface is proposed, completely rewritten from scratch.
- The web interface now displays only file systems configured in OpenMediaVault.
- Added new plugins designed as isolated containers: S3, OwnTone, PhotoPrism, WeTTY, FileBrowser and Onedrive.
- The installer's capabilities have been expanded, including the ability to install on USB drives from a system booted from another USB drive.
- Instead of a separate background process, systemd watchdog is used to keep track of the state.
- An option has been added to the FTP settings to show the user's home directory in the navigation list.
- Extended tools for monitoring the temperature of drives. Provides the ability to override general SMART settings for selected drives.
- The pam_tally2 package has been replaced with pam_faillock.
- The omv-update utility has been replaced with omv-upgrade.
- Support for SMB NetBIOS is disabled by default (you can turn it back on via the OMV_SAMBA_NMBD_ENABLE environment variable).
- The /dev/disk/by-label device has been dropped because it generates predictable labels.
- The ability to install in parallel with other graphical environments has been discontinued.
- Disabled system log cleaning function (logs are now processed using systemd journal).
- In the user options settings, the ability to use ed25519 keys for SSH is provided.
- Added "recycle bin" support for home directories hosted on SMB partitions.
- Added the ability to transfer and change access rights on a page with shared directories ACLs. For shared directories hosted on non-POSIX-compliant file systems, the button for going to the ACL configuration page has been removed.
- Enhanced settings for running scheduled tasks.
- Manually specified DNS servers are given a higher priority than DNS servers obtained via DHCP.
- The avahi-daemon background process now only uses the ethernet, bond, and wifi network interfaces configured via the OpenMediaVault configurator.
- Updated login interface.
The OpenMediaVault project considers expanding support for embedded devices and creating a flexible system for installing add-ons as priority areas for development, while leveraging the capabilities of the ZFS file system is a key development direction for FreeNAS. Compared to FreeNAS, the mechanism for installing add-ons has been significantly redesigned; instead of changing the entire βfirmwareβ, OpenMediaVault is updated using standard tools for updating individual packages and a full-fledged installer that allows you to select the necessary components during the installation process.
The OpenMediaVault web management interface is written in PHP and is characterized by loading data as needed using Ajax technology without reloading pages (the FreeNAS web interface is written in Python using the Django framework). The interface contains functions for organizing data sharing and separating privileges (including ACL support). For monitoring, you can use SNMP (v1 / 2c / 3), in addition, there is a built-in system for sending notifications about problems by email (including monitoring the status of disks via SMART and monitoring the operation of the uninterruptible power system).
Of the basic services related to organizing the work of the repository, one can note: SSH / SFTP, FTP, SMB / CIFS, DAAP client, RSync, BitTorrent client, NFS and TFTP. You can use EXT3, EXT4, XFS and JFS as the file system. Since the OpenMediaVault distribution kit was originally aimed at expanding functionality through connecting add-ons, plugins are being developed separately to support AFP (Apple Filing Protocol), BitTorrent server, iTunes / DAAP server, LDAP, iSCSI target, UPS, LVM and antivirus (ClamAV). Creation of software RAIDs (JBOD/0/1/5/6) using mdadm is supported.
Source: opennet.ru