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WDC MyBook World II NAS Support #107

Closed hondzik closed 8 years ago

hondzik commented 8 years ago

Hello, I found this project when I was looking for a new version of MySql for my WDC MyBook World II (WhiteLight). I was using the original optware, but the packages are getting very old.

I tried both arm5 versions of ipkg package manager, but I always got "Illegal instruction" error when I tried to run it. According to uname there is Linux 2.6.24.4 installed on this NAS: Linux MyBookWorld 2.6.24.4 #1 Thu Apr 1 16:43:58 CST 2010 armv5tejl unknown

Is it possible for you to support this device?

Thanks, Jan

alllexx88 commented 8 years ago

Hi, buildroot-armv5eabi-ng feed uses 2.6.36.4 kernel headers, which are probably too new for WD MyBook World Edition II. buildroot-armv5eabi-ng-legacy feed is currently broken: I tried to build with 2.6.12 kernel headers, which turned out to be a bad idea. I'm now rebuilding it with 2.6.22 kernel headers, which should hopefully work for MBWE II

hondzik commented 8 years ago

Hi, thank you for your support. Please let me know when the buildroot-armv5eabi-ng-legacy feed is ready.

Thanks, Jan

alllexx88 commented 8 years ago

@hondzik built and uploaded. If the feed works for you in general (hope it does), make sure you have enough swap memory, since mysql 5.7.9 is pretty memory-demanding. 2GB is a good bet

hondzik commented 8 years ago

Thank you very much, I will try it on the evening...

alllexx88 commented 8 years ago

@hondzik have you managed to try it? I'm pretty curious myself whether it works or not, since WD MBWE 1 was the reason I originally got into the world of Linux :-) MBWE I stock firmware runs an OABI kernel, and even though MyLenny firmware I shared back in the old days is EABI, it's still just 2.6.17.14 linux, which is too outdated to support. But MBWE II runs 2.6.24.4 EABI kernel, which should hopefully be sufficient for buildroot-armv5eabi-ng-legacy feed

hondzik commented 8 years ago

Hi @alllexx88 yes, it works! I was able to install ipkg and mysql 5.7.9 too. After few tests I decided to downgrade to 5.0.88, because the 5.7.9 is REALLY pretty memory-demanding and for my usage (KODI media library) I cannot justify that. Anyway thank you for your help

alllexx88 commented 8 years ago

@hondzik mysql 5.7.9 has proven to work fine even on mipsel routers, which have less memory and CPU than the whitelight. All it takes is an ~ 2 GB swap file, which shouldn't be an issue on a NAS. mysql 5.0.88 is very old, so is the cs05q1armel Optware feed you're probably using. From my experience, 5.7.9 takes a lot of memory, but for daily usage it's ok, since it's pages are being mostly swapped out, and remain in the swap memory, unless you're doing lots of heavy read and writes (which you normally don't, for a media library, except for maybe while indexing large libraries -- but this process is always resource-consuming). Anyway, it's up to you to decide, but thanks for letting me know it works!

tjmaru commented 1 year ago

if someone faced it again, the problem is in the /usr/bin/sort util. My workaround is install coreutils from optware-ng and make a symlink /opt/bin/coreutils-sort -> /usr/bin/sort after that there is no problem to install any other packages.