multiple disks as a single share

xvlun · 6. Oktober 2013

Hi everybody, currently I have a NAS, which houses a bunch of hdds, which are currently not integrated in a raid setup. Quite often I have to move stuff around from one hdd to another. My problem is that to do this, the data is downloaded from one share on the nas and then reuploaded to the other via the desktop pc, which makes this kind of transfer rather inefficient. So my question(s) would be:

Is there a way to:
- achieve that these kind of transfers are handled internally on the nas (without falling back to the command line)
- and to keep the solution integrated into omv, so that changes in omv would destroy the customizations.

davidh2k · 6. Oktober 2013

Possible solutions:
[*]1. Webmin (recommend by some people here)
[*]2. Custom samba share that symlinks all shares together

I never tried 2., but it should be possible. I used something like that to share the whole hard disk.

Greetings
David

xvlun · 19. Oktober 2013

the problem with 2. is that i do not know how to make my changes to the smb.conf persistent, i does not even seem possible to link files to the samba config using include, omv will just revert all the changes made if i ever again try to do anything samba related in the web interface (am I wrong?). also allowing samba to follow the links caused unexplicable strange behaviour of omv

I solved that problem (at least for now) by manually mounting all disks (via the xml config file), as subdirectories of another disk, which i shared via the webinterface.

At least for me It be a great addition; if it was possible in omv to just add custom directories as samba shares using the web interface. Is there any chance that this feature could be added in the future?

tekkb · 19. Oktober 2013

Just symlinks will do what he wants. This is what I use to make movies show in my main media/movies folder from other data drives. You don't need to mess with samba config file.... WTH

Symlinks are best solution. Way better then messing with more mount points or the XML file, this could be disastrous for noobs. We just need to get some more How/Tos out. Symlinks is long overdue.

I'll try to write something up when I get home. Check here tomorrow.

davidh2k · 19. Oktober 2013

Create a shared folder on one of your disks.
SHare this folder via SMB/CIFS.
Set the following under the extra options for the share:

Code

symlinks = yes
wide links = yes

Set the following under the extra options of the SMB/CIFS:

Code

unix extensions = no
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
strict allocate = yes

Greetings
David

Edit: Then symlink every disk to this share.
Edit2: @Both of you: Its already here: http://forums.openmediavault.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2256

xvlun · 21. Oktober 2013

with that my problem is, (as the posting clearly states), that it would not be possible to use that setup for nfs.

ryecoaaron · 21. Oktober 2013

Symlinks work with nfs as well.

** edit - no they don't. mounts do but not symlinks. :oops:

davidh2k · 21. Oktober 2013

Do you something that I don't know? From my understanding and tests symlinks do not work with nfs!

The Problem with nfs and symlinks is that the symlinks are presented to the client that opens the nfs share. The client then trys to access this symlink on its own system which doesnt work.

Greetings
David

ryecoaaron · 21. Oktober 2013

I guess you are right. I actually have the other drive mounted as a sub-directory. I was thinking it was symlink :oops:

gkhar2 · 4. Oktober 2019

sorry, cannot get that symlink creation to work. I cannot see the new symlink-share in the old share where i want to have the symlink.

I did the following:

1. added into the extra options in settings tab of smb/cifs:

unix extensions = no
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
strict allocate = yes

2. added into the extra options of the destination-share, where i want the symlink to link to (destination: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-4tbDrive2/serien_neu

symlinks = yes
wide links = yes

After that i opened the Symlinks plugin and added the following symlink:

source: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-6tbDrive/video2/Serien (just the empty directory where i wanna see the content of the dest)
dest: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-4tbDrive2/serien_neu (here are the current contents i wanna see)

After pressing save i get the following errormessage.

Any idea, what i do wrong?

regards

janfribogar · 1. November 2019

I did exactly same as you @gkhar2 and I'm having the exactly same problem. It's imposible to me to create a symlink.

Someone can help us?

mwabner · 25. Februar 2020

Zitat von janfribogar

I did exactly same as you @gkhar2 and I'm having the exactly same problem. It's imposible to me to create a symlink.

Someone can help us?

The problem is that you want to create an symlink on an folder. you must create the symlink and name it after the slash with an extra name. the folder name is: ./../folder and there you do an extra: /nameofthesymlink so the whole path is: -/../folder/nameofthesymlink

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