[HowTo] SnapRAID in OMV

Quote from "ryecoaaron"

How often do you run snapraid sync/scrub? Cron job, I assume?

Here I run very basic cronjob just to sync every night and a check every fortnight, including a redirection to a proper logfile, which snapraid does not normally do.

A much more sophisticated script can be found here, including email notification and protection from accidental deletion propagation.

A plugin for snapraid (and mhddfs or aufs for that matter, a combination of both would be superb) is greatly appreciated!

Quote from "ryecoaaron"

I haven't used snapraid but doesn't the pool feature do that?

Snapraid's pool feature does read-only pooling as far as I understood it. When writing data, you still need to specify a folder to write to. In my opinion, this is better done with a specific tool to get balanced writing, such as mhddfs.

Rather than create a new thread, I just thought I'd add to this one...

I'm really excited about the snapraid plugin being developed. I've been a big fan of OMV since I first started using it. But at the same time, I've always been a bit jealous of unRaid and the flexibility that their parity drive solution gives. Snapraid offers a pretty good compromise solution, with much of the same flexibility but with the added benefit of being open source and not bound to a particular distro. Making it available as an OMV plugin really enhances BOTH products.

Quote from "ryecoaaron"

Рад, что вам нравится я не использую snapraid еще, но я хотел бы сделать плагин лучше предложения от людей, которые используют его.

maybe we should add an automatic scheduled scan directly into the settings?

Quote from "ryecoaaron"

Рад, что вам нравится я не использую snapraid еще, но я хотел бы сделать плагин лучше предложения от людей, которые используют его.

Your Russian looks good Ryeco... :lol: :lol:

Quote from "ryecoaaron"

Рад, что вам нравится я не использую snapraid еще, но я хотел бы сделать плагин лучше предложения от людей, которые используют его.

Wtf?!

Greetings
David

Hi
Does the snapraid plug-in include a union mount service like aufs or unionfs ? I know snapraid, this is great piece of software but compared to raid5 you haven't the ability to overlaid multiple file systems to form a single file system.

You can either do it with greyhole or a pooling file system link mhfs (or something like that, I forgot)

Thanks both for your reply.
According to me Greyhole is not the best choice, because you don't obtain a virtual file system but a CIFS share which of course it's not view by the system the same way.
For example if you want to add a path to your Plex configuration, I think that you can't do it using greyhole, because Plex lists only all file systems even if they are virtual.

mhddfs seems to be similar as aufs and simpler. But aufs is faster than mhddfs because it's built into the kernel