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Remote file system

PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 8:03 pm
by dash
I'm trying to have serviio work against a remote file system. I'm running serviio on Linux, so the obvious choice was NFS, but I've noticed that if I reboot the NAS serviio will lose everything, and then take a very long time about re-adding everything.

I thought I'd try SMB and UNC paths as I was hoping it would have a bit more intelligence around an unavailable endpoint being distinctly different to an empty one, but I can't seem to enter UNC paths into the console. When I save my settings it prepends a /, suggesting it's trying to find a local directory.

Does anybody have a reliable method to deal with remote file systems?

Re: Remote file system

PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 10:32 pm
by atc98092
I did some playing around with Linux Mint, and discovered the same problem with entering a UNC for the shared folder. My solution was to mount the network share as a local folder, then in the Serviio console it was just a local folder location. I never could get the UNC to work as one would expect.

Re: Remote file system

PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:45 pm
by dash
Did you have issues with it wiping out your library if that share was unavailable?

I've got to try hard nfs mounts to see if that helps - will probably lock up serviio whilst the NAS is unavailable, but given that's where my content is, it shouldn't matter.

Re: Remote file system

PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:59 pm
by atc98092
dash wrote:Did you have issues with it wiping out your library if that share was unavailable?


My data was always available so can't say for sure if that ever happened.

Re: Remote file system

PostPosted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 12:56 pm
by dash
I switched to hard mounts, and it can still go screwy when the NAS is rebooted, but so far I haven't had it lose my library (indicated by the loss of favourite series), but at the OS level it's less tolerant and needs a reboot to unscrew.