Dear Friend ,
Here what I found .... I made some tests yesterday because this is getting very crazy , indeed ..!!!
I burned the omv_2.2.5_rpi2_rpi3.img.gz on the same sd card and I will summarize what I found..!!
First I have to say that this image is working with my external self-powered disk drive just fine...!! No loops , no hangs at all..!!
It sees the usb controller just fine and mount that BUT ..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Firstly I want to say that on Jessie official image the repository and the commands do not work ..!! I have tried different things to install omv and nothing is working .....!!! Have unmet dependencies and cannot install the actual openmediavault package. This is happening on Jessie only. On the other hand Wheezy is working just fine . No problems at all.
NOW..... I will only talk for the omv 2.2.5 because I only manage to install this on my pi3 and not causing it to loop.!
I have to make a few comments on the Web GUI Interface of OpenMediaVault.!
First Error I encountered ..!! was about the monit service ( Failed to execute command 'export LANG=C; monit monitor iscsitarget 2>&1) or something... I google it and I make corrections with ntpd deamon - I purge the ntpd service and so on.... endless hours to figure it out..!! The monitoring in openmediavault is sucks or making conflict because there are 2 ntpd deamons running ???? Ohh my GOD what an error is that??? Any way I do some magic and then I left alone the monitoring because it will produce the same error on every apply you make.!!! Awful..!! indeed.
Second problem I encountered. !!! was about the new mount of my external usb drive. In the Web administration GUI has the option to mount the drive but with what mount-name and under what permission or restrictions ??????????? Doesn't say ...!!!! Maybe I am blind but I did not find that or I have the ability to mount it to what ever I want or to change the owner or ...!!!!
Then I return to the good old terminal window and start to digging ... I found out that the external drive had been mounted as a big serial number (as a mount-name) , the same with the rest of my SD card space and the external drive was owned by pi:pi .!!! boom ..!!!! boom..! Well the image is responsible for this or the web GUI of openmedavault ????.! So when I create a user and share folders inside the external drive from the GUI administration , for someone to access the external drive has to be in the same group with pi..!!
Otherwise you get access denied..!! Well ok now.!!!!!!!!!! Really ???? The point is that this cannot be change inside the admin GUI and I have to do it from terminal..!!! well ....maybe I do not know , but I didn't find any other solution inside the admin GUI.!!!!
This is not good because web GUI supposed to give you full access to everything according to the manipulation of your external drives....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Third problem I encountered in the GUI is the SSH Remote GUI plugin..!!!! Could not be installed because of broken packages.!
Well.... apt-get update and omv-update finished well and without any errors at all from terminal window..!!! So where is the problem??? It says something on selinux or I do not remember because I was so furious that I shutdown everything and I decided to leave OpenMediaVault behind me.!!!!
I am sorry man , but my first experience with this GUI was not so good...very disappointing..! I do not know if the latest version is better but I cannot test them on my raspberry pi3 with the external self-powered disk attached to it. Anyway .. for me spending hours (which I do not have ) to fix errors and problems on the GUI and on the image , for me is time consuming indeed.
But I have to say that this is a nice job BUT it needs a lot of extra work to outcome these errors at start.!After all it is an open source ...!!
Have a nice day and keep up the good work ... I would try to follow you for a better update if possible ... till then
Thank you for your answers.