Posts by wolffstarr

  • What is the importance of the motherboard?

    Depends on the motherboard, really. There really is an element of "you get what you pay for" in terms of both features and hardware quality. If you have a higher end board, then it may well handle "neglected" conditions better, the driver support for onboard hardware is likely to be a little better, and you're probably less likely to experience crashes.


    The real difference though tends to lie in features. What does the board give you? A cheapo motherboard will work fine for the most part for just a basic NAS, but if you want to you can get a server-grade motherboard which will give you additional functionality, like remote administration/KVM access through IPMI, a far larger amount of drive connectivity, or additional CPU support (dual-socket). For consumer boards, if you go with, say, an A320 board over a B450 for AMD, I believe you have fewer PCIe lanes available in general for supporting drives, network cards, etc.

  • Error with apt-get update on omv-extras for buster/main Packages.bz2

    Getting an error with apt running for the buster/main repo for omv-extras - unexpected file size. Error is below. This came up with the automatic apt update and no changes have been made since the apt update Wednesday, which was for containerd, docker, and the openmediavault package so I'm assuming it's a corrupt file on the repo end somehow.


  • Transmission in docker on a separate network

    This is doable. I've got a couple of different things setup, but the best one is Traefik. I've got two networks configured in Docker, traefik-proxy and outside-services. Outside-services is configured as macvlan, and traefik-proxy is a standard bridge network. Anything I want to be only accessible through the proxy goes solely on traefik-proxy. Traefik, on the other hand, goes on both traefik-proxy and outside-services, and is assigned an IP address. The config with docker-compose looks like this:


    Code
        traefik:

            container_name: traefik-1

            expose:

                - 80/tcp

                - 443/tcp

                - 8080/tcp

            networks:

                outside-services:

                    ipv4_address: 'aa.bb.cc.254'

                traefik-proxy:


    Now that's my example, I would expect you would do something similar with the macvlan network for your ISP connection and your bridge network for all your other containers. Also remember that expose is generally used for opening ports on macvlan networks and not for mapping on bridge networks, so if you're translating to standard docker run for that you probably wouldn't want to do any port exposes for a download-only client.

  • [HOWTO] Instal ZFS-Plugin & use ZFS on OMV

    Quote from T-Dawg

    If I try and remove sysv-rc it then just installs openrc at the same time, so still stuck :D
    Also it then starts doing a lot of slightly scary stuff with service runlevels and init.d including saying:

    Code
    **********************************************************************

    *** WARNING: if you are replacing sysv-rc by OpenRC, then you must ***

    *** reboot immediately using the following command:                ***

    for file in /etc/rc0.d/K*; do s=`basename $(readlink "$file")` ; /etc/init.d/$s stop; done

    **********************************************************************

    Um. Okay, I did some digging and thinking on this and it wasn't sysv-rc or openrc that I was uninstalling, it was insserv. Since systemd-sysv does exactly the same thing as insserv according to a couple of different sources, and since it's recommended they NOT be installed alongside each other, you should be fine once that's uninstalled. Do research it of course, but consider this bug report to Debian, where it's mentioned they shouldn't be installed alongside each other.


    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915831#37

  • OMV-Theme plugin, theme changer and UI customisation

    Quote from L3T

    Great program! Thank you. Just a heads up for people that may have been wondering the same thing as me as to why their theme isn't changing and staying the same as the first one they changed to. I was using Chrome, but this likely can occur with any other browser. You'll have to clear your browser data to see the change, as the website is cached (if that's the correct term) to save on having to reload it fully, so you won't see the theme.

    You can actually get it to reload with Shift+F5 and it will reload the whole theme.

  • [HOWTO] Instal ZFS-Plugin & use ZFS on OMV

    Quote from ovizii

    Thanks. Since I am moving from freenas to OMV I can decrypt my pool and start using OMV while waiting for ZOL 0.8 (with native encryption to hit the Debian 9 repos) - encryption is not "needed" but after having had it for about 5 years I feel naked disabling it


    I'm currently trying to figure out the right hardware (upgrades) and I saw some announcement about OMV 5 moving to BTRFS ( github.com/openmediavault/openmediavault/issues/101 ) and a lot of discussions going on there about ZFS so I was wondering whether to start with OMV 4 with the ZOl version supplied by Debian 9 or with OMV 5 with ZOl supplied by Debian 10?

    You really don't want to go to OMV 5 - it's early Beta, most of the plugins (last I checked, a couple of weeks ago) weren't anywhere near ported, and there's still a long way to go.


    That said, the BTRFS change was pushed back to OMV6 at least, so won't be much of a worry.

  • [HOWTO] Instal ZFS-Plugin & use ZFS on OMV

    Quote from ryecoaaron

    That was @subzero79 fixing a bunch of stuff. Not sure why we didn't release that. It is not prep for 5.x and I think it should be used. Actually, the only thing that needs to be ported to 5.x is the email notification stuff. The plugin should just work as it is.

    Okay. I have no idea whatsoever what I'm doing, so working off his would be best if it's functional, but I didn't want to go down that path without making sure I wasn't basing on the wrong thing.

  • [HOWTO] Instal ZFS-Plugin & use ZFS on OMV

    @ryecoaaron, I noticed poking around that there were a ton of commits made to the plugin back in October 2018 that aren't part of the currently used plugin. I was toying with the idea of trying to rework some stuff (in my fumble-fingered way) but I'm not sure if that was stuff that was prep for 5.x, or if it was a partly-completed rewrite, or what. Any idea whether it's a partially complete rewrite or something prepping for 5.x?

  • ZFS RAID recovery/replacement test

    Quote from jairusan

    Really appreciate your confirmation. I assume the same applies to the mdadm RAID?

    No, MDADM is a core part of OMV, so it's done by Volker as part of the project. Personally, I can't speak to whether or not you can do a drive replace via the Raid Management Interface, as I've never used it - I started out running JBOD and leaped straight into ZFS when the plugin first came out.

  • ZFS RAID recovery/replacement test

    You are correct, there is not a way through the UI to replace a failed drive as far as I can tell.


    Keep in mind that the folks who created the ZFS plugin were not able to actively maintain it and didn't have tons of coding experience to begin with, so they may not have thought of this. This is one reason why the UI has a few odd display options (specifically, snapshot display).

  • It would appear as if cron-apt is not working on my system.

    Yeah, I wasn't sure if cron-apt would output anything on the command line, but I figured worth a try. Output below, email masked to protect the guilty:


  • It would appear as if cron-apt is not working on my system.

    Probably the strangest thing is that there's nothing in there. File was created April 23rd, and is completely empty. Last file date before that is April 16th for log.1.gz, and when I open that up it's from updates to Perl.


    I'm not 100% positive, but I think this may have been right around when I upgraded from OMV3 to OMV4. I only mention it because there's tons of things that change in there that could've broken something.


    I did try sudo apt-get install --reinstall cron-apt and it doesn't seem to have done anything useful; similarly I tried running /usr/sbin/cron-apt on the command line and nothing happens, nor are there log entries in syslog.


    I'm kind of stumped.

  • It would appear as if cron-apt is not working on my system.

    Something I've noticed over the past couple of months is that cron-apt is not working on my primary NAS (Supermicro X9SCL-F with Core i3-2100). Searching the forums seems to indicate that this is highly unusual, so I started looking deeper, and I'm not finding much of anything.


    By "not running" I mean "I ran it manually four days ago and updated stuff then, and when I look at Updates there's nothing listed, but if I click "Check" then it finds packages to update." It's actually not doing anything at all as far as I can tell, despite packages being available. From the limited logs that cron provides by default, I don't see any errors, and I do see it running as a cron job, but nothing comes of it.


    Anyone seen anything like this before? This is on OMV 4.1.9.