Posts by mnui

Do you have any idea, why the speed is so slow?

Therefore the correct setup should be like this?
Enter both paths (host and container) and disable green button?

=> It is working, but it is incredibly slow... 50 kb/s instead of 10 Mb/s.

Do you mean the section on the attached picture?

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Yuck. Running an free NAS OS on an expensive Windows license.

HyperV 2016 is free.

Pyload ignores the specified download directory. Instead of the shown directory via webinterface, the downloaded files are saved unter /var/lib/docker/volumes/.../_data/

I specified a download directory like this: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-WD6TB/DrivePool/Download

Does anyone have an idea, what I am doing wrong?

I've moved to HyperV 2016. Spindown is working!

Setup:
OMV 3.0.88 as a VM under ESXi 6.5 U1
HDD via RDM

hdparm -C /dev/sdb:

/dev/sdb:
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 c0 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 drive state is:  standby

But the drive is still running, spindown via hdparm -y /dev/sdb is not working at all and hdparm -C does show the wrong drive status.

Spindown was working with ESXi 6 U2 and OMV 3.0.31 and the same host system. Any idea how to fix the spindown issue with ESXi and OMV?

/etc/init.d/smartd stop on ESXi is already disabled.

If spindown with OMV and ESXi 6.5 U1 is not working, I would switch to HyperV 2016. Or any other ideas?

UPDATE:
Should I configure the RDM drives in ESXi as a SATA or SCSI controller for OMV?

I tried to upgrade PLEX via webif. The upgrade process failed, as you can see below.

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages will be upgraded:
  plexmediaserver
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/101 MB of archives.
After this operation, 2126 kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... (Reading database ... 5%(Reading database ... 10%(Reading database ... 15%(Reading database ... 20%(Reading database ... 25%(Reading database ... 30%(Reading database ... 35%(Reading database ... 40%(Reading database ... 45%(Reading database ... 50%(Reading database ... 55%(Reading database ... 60%(Reading database ... 65%(Reading database ... 70%(Reading database ... 75%(Reading database ... 80%(Reading database ... 85%(Reading database ... 90%(Reading database ... 95%(Reading database ... 100%(Reading database ... 55748 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../plexmediaserver_1.1.3.2700-6f64a8d_amd64.deb ...
Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plexmediaserver.service.
Unpacking plexmediaserver (1.1.3.2700-6f64a8d) over (1.0.3.2461-35f0caa) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u4) ...
Setting up plexmediaserver (1.1.3.2700-6f64a8d) ...
Job for plexmediaserver.service failed. See 'systemctl status plexmediaserver.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 plexmediaserver


>>> *************** Error ***************


<<< *************************************

OMV:~# systemctl status plexmediaserver.service
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d
└─db_folder.conf
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Do 2016-09-08 09:33:17 CEST; 10s ago

Sep 08 09:33:12 OMV systemd[1]: Failed to load environment files: No such file or directory
Sep 08 09:33:12 OMV systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service failed to run 'start-pre' task: No such file or directory
Sep 08 09:33:12 OMV systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
Sep 08 09:33:12 OMV systemd[1]: Unit plexmediaserver.service entered failed state.
Sep 08 09:33:17 OMV systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Sep 08 09:33:17 OMV systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
Sep 08 09:33:17 OMV systemd[1]: Unit plexmediaserver.service entered failed state.

The solution was to edit the db_folder.conf or to rename the environment file located in /etc/default/

The file was named plexmediaserver.prev instead of plexmediaserver

Now everything is working!

No naming issue. I was using PLEX on windows before and it worked with the same naming.
But I'll try the PLEX forum.

Is there an option to repair/reinstall PLEX via webif?

I am using OMV 3.0.31 (Erasmus) and PLEX 1.0.3.2461 installed via OMV extras.
Everything is working fine, except that PLEX does not download Posters for the TV shows.

Is there an option to repair/reinstall PLEX via webif?

Any news/updates regarding pyload and OMV 3 (3.0.31)?

I found the solution!
Without write-cache enabled I get the full performance.

I've succesfully mounted 4 different drives using this method.
Doublecheck if you got any typo errors.

Is anyone experiencing bad performance with unionfilesystems (mergerfs) using SMB?

I am using snapRAID, unionfilesystems (mergerfs) and smb to access my files via network.

After a clean setup, I was able to get a constant speed of about 110 MB/s.

I did not check the performance after every change, but now I only get about 35 MB/s, sometimes 50 MB/s.

Here is the top output:

top - 16:07:16 up 22:15, 1 user, load average: 13,66, 10,63, 5,34
Tasks: 163 total, 1 running, 162 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu0 : 2,9 us, 8,2 sy, 0,0 ni, 54,7 id, 28,8 wa, 0,4 hi, 4,9 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu1 : 2,4 us, 4,4 sy, 0,0 ni, 39,8 id, 53,4 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu2 : 9,8 us, 4,7 sy, 0,0 ni, 37,8 id, 47,6 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu3 : 1,3 us, 5,4 sy, 0,0 ni, 33,7 id, 59,3 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,3 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu4 : 8,4 us, 7,0 sy, 0,0 ni, 30,2 id, 54,4 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu5 : 2,0 us, 6,8 sy, 0,0 ni, 32,9 id, 58,3 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu6 : 11,1 us, 6,4 sy, 0,0 ni, 33,2 id, 49,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,3 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu7 : 7,8 us, 9,8 sy, 0,0 ni, 30,4 id, 52,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem: 8197284 total, 7940744 used, 256540 free, 966908 buffers
KiB Swap: 901116 total, 68568 used, 832548 free. 5380440 cached Mem

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
11339 root 10 -10 1848168 21992 908 S 26,2 0,3 58:24.41 mergerfs

As you can see, the cpu has to wait a for I/O access ==> disk?! So I think the problem has to do something with mergerfs/unionfilesystems.

If mergerfs isn't running anymore, it looks like this:
top - 16:12:35 up 22:21, 1 user, load average: 0,14, 4,07, 4,03
Tasks: 160 total, 1 running, 159 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu0 : 8,9 us, 0,0 sy, 0,0 ni, 91,1 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu1 : 8,0 us, 0,7 sy, 0,0 ni, 91,4 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu2 : 0,0 us, 0,0 sy, 0,0 ni, 95,6 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 4,4 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu3 : 0,0 us, 0,0 sy, 0,0 ni,100,0 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu4 : 0,0 us, 0,0 sy, 0,0 ni,100,0 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu5 : 0,0 us, 0,0 sy, 0,0 ni,100,0 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu6 : 0,0 us, 0,0 sy, 0,0 ni,100,0 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu7 : 0,0 us, 0,0 sy, 0,0 ni,100,0 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem: 8197284 total, 7927004 used, 270280 free, 967388 buffers
KiB Swap: 901116 total, 68552 used, 832564 free. 5369676 cached Mem

Sysinfo:
Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64
Host: ESXi 6

You can also use RDM. That's how it made my drives available to OMV.
That's the way to keep your files on the corresponding drive.

It is really simple:

1. Find the name of the disk:
ls -l/vmfs/devices/disks

2. Look for an existing datastore (for example the one, you've installed ESXi on)
ls -l /vmfs/volumes
You can also look it up with vSphere Client

3. Add the RDM to an existing datastore (for example the one, you've installed ESXi on)
You can physically map the drive with the following command
vmkfstools -z /vmfs/devices/disks/<DiskName> /vmfs/volumes/<Datastore>/<Folder>/<Disk>.vmdk

Here are two links to some tutorials for additional information:
RAW Device Mapping
HowTo create an RDM Mapping File cia CLI

No problem at all. You're answering very quick in that forum! Big compliment to all!

After creating the DrivePool folder on each drive and moving the data into that folder, everything is working fine.

I see the union mount point, but the folder is also empty. I did not get what you said regarding the uuid.
But if I take a look at the filesystems via webui, the drive of the mergerfs DrivePool is mentioned there as false. But it displays the correct amount of disk usage.

If I create a new folder via Windows on the DrivePool, it also corretly adds the folder on the corresponding drive.
So probably the solution is to create a DrivePool folder on each drive and move the data to that folder?

My Solution:
Adding the DrivePool folder on each drive and moving files manually worked out. Dont forget to set the correct chmod manually.

Perfect, it's working with mergerfs.
Samba wasn't working, until I added "defaults,allow_other" to the options at unionfilesystems.

But the DrivePool appears empty? If I take a look at the filesystems tab with the webinterface it shows the correct amount of space usage.

I would like to use the DrivePool with some drives, which already have existing data on it.

Do I have to manually move the files? Or did I setup anything wrong?

Thanks for the quick reply.

Is it possible to use afs and mfs? Or do I have to choose a different option?

If I take a look at the plugin menu, it displays unionfilesystems 3.1.4. I can try again to install it.

But in general, unionfilesystems should work with OMV 3.0.31? Is it possible to use afs mit mfs? Do I have to setup anything or choose any options at the creation of the drive pool?