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Are there any FOSS NAS servers for a Marvell arm SOC? (self.selfhosting)
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Fujitsu abandoned their Celvin NAS customers. The proprietary software is over 10 years old. And worse, Fujitsu had an app store to get apps that were not part of the stock stock distro, like a bittorrent app, which are no longer reachable.

The hardware uses a Marvell arm SOC. FreeNAS is x86 only. QNAP has some fairly recent distros that may be compatible. It’s proprietary and perhaps somewhat risky. What are the chances that a QNAP image from 2024 bricks my Fujitsu from 2013?

Is QNAP my only option, or is there a FOSS option? There are at least 15 FOSS NAS platforms:

https://techcult.com/best-free-and-open-source-nas-software/

but I have no idea if any are built for a Marvell arm SOC. Anyone know?

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[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you can get Debian or Rocky Linux on it, you can likely manage all of the NAS-like stuff with Cockpit.

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you know exactly which SoC it uses?

It's probably a 32-bit ARM processor. Most NAS-focused operating systems have removed support for these, if they even supported them at all. OpenMediaVault recently removed support for 32-bit ARM and only support 64-bit now: https://www.openmediavault.org/?p=4002.

Having said that, some OSes still support them. You should be able to get Debian running if it's an ARMv7 CPU or newer. Debian did support older ones, but they're being phased out and no longer build an installer for them.

[–] evenwicht 2 points 4 days ago

The specs say it’s Marvell 6281 1.2GHz.. not sure what that is but the search leads to some deeper specs for a RISC CPU that is both 32bit and 16bit. The info is dicey because "6281" does not appear in those docs. In any case, I suspect you're right, that it's not 64 bit.

[–] lanefu@social.linux.pizza 3 points 4 days ago

@evenwicht

Sorry I'm not offering a more optimistic response.

Nothing is going to work out of the box. The very first pain point will be a working boot loader and device tree.

If you fight hard enough you might be able to get some sort of debian build running and can roll your own NAS from there.

https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide/_FAQ/#why-no-universal-image