Why would I want to reflash to the Open Protium firmware?
At this point in time reflashing to the Open Protium firmware is really for the developer/senior sysadmin who wants more control over their StorCenter. The firmware gives you a full Linux environment and native compiler, permitting the compilation of just about any available open source software. Furthermore there is a package repository of some 250 pre-compiled packages like: apache2, php, mt-daapd, gphoto and gallery. The Open Protium firmware also permits using the disk as the root filesystem, giving more flexibility to the configuration. One interesting option here is that once a disk is used as the root file system it can be mirrored adding even more availability to the StorCenter. Also using the disk as the root filesystem allows the flash boot environment to remain as a backup boot environment in case of disk failure. In the future, the Open Protium team will be moving to a more recent Linux kernel and keeping up with the general Linux development and evolution. This has already
