Beiträge von dfarning

I started drafting a new front page page to the wiki in a sand box at http://wiki.openmediavault.org/index.php?title=User:Dfarning .

As wiki front page can be surprisingly complicated as one tries to encapsulate an entire project in a single screen

At this point I have gone with a simple structure answering the following questions:

1. What is OpenMediaWiki?
a. How do I make OpenmediaWiki meet my particular needs?
b. What is happening in the project?
2. Where do I get more information?

As it takes shape we can start moving parts of it to the main page.

@DaddyRazzy

I am pretty interested in OpenMediaVault on kirkwood and armada 370 arm processors. Your QNAP is probably one of those.

They seem like nice little devices for home or small offices but have a steep markup and come with crippled software. The full featured software is reserved for their vendor's premium lines.

The challenge is, as we see with this and other related threads, OMV is primarily designed and tested for use on i368 or amd64 hardware. There are going to be a whole bunch of little issues like this when trying to support the "embedded zoo." ( https://events.linuxfoundation…/pdf/lcjp2012_masters.pdf )

@Emegra

Can you please go up the thread label and mark this solved? Just trying to keep things tidy.

Try adding

> /tmp/cron_output.log 2>&1

to the end of cron jobs.

It can provide more verbose debugging information

One thing to consider with this type of feature is where it fits on the stack.

My initial inclination is that while useful, things that depend on external services might not fit into the core server. This feel like plugin. However, as a pure plugin it can not send core notifications.

This might be an interesting place to explore the relationship between core and plugins. Could volker add an abstraction layer to notifications while would enable a plugin developer to create a plugin which uses the service of their choice to push notifications?

I haven't looked at the code enough to see if individual services send their own notifications of if they are sent centrally.

fixed upstream!

opened as http://bugtracker.openmediavault.org/view.php?id=1087 .

fixed upstream with informational dialog.

TW is marking a thread solved a user task or a moderator task. I have never used this forum software before.

Should I file a bug in the tracker?

I understand this is a trivial bug with a simple work around... but it is enough to to slow us new guys down.

I'll start adding information about the upcoming release named Kralizec.

I understand there was an intentional jump from 0.5 to 1.0 because the software has stabilized into some that deserves to be called 1.0. (0.6 evolved into 1.0). I am still a bit lost on the final major release number as the current beta seems to be 1.0.8.

thanks

Is there interest in consolidating any of the information from this forum in the wiki? I noticed the option to create a new wiki account has been disable.

@ryecoaaron

One thing to try is to use gparted to shrink your partition just before you use dd to create the .img file.

Then at the other end the user can use raspi-config to expand the image to the size of their SD card.

Nice work on the plugin structure. The MVC implementation was surprisingly easy to learn and understand.

For some reason naming and capitalization conventions kicked my butt. I am stronger in system administration with almost no background in javascript or php. Maybe they are just new to me.

Thanks.

Everything in this tutorial worked as expected.

Sorry for the dumb question.... What does

. /etc/default/openmediavault

do? I have never notice that syntax before ( and google was not very helpful.)

Thanks

For consistency the file named firstpluginrpc.inc should be named firstplugin.inc

None of the other files in /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/rpc have a 'rpc' in their name.

Interesting I have never seen --info=progress2 ...

I am currently working on a squid-deb-proxy ( https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=squid-deb-proxy ) plugin to learn more about the implementation of OMV. Once/If I get that done I'll look at USB-Backup again.

I looked into it a bit when I first ran into the situation.

I don't think there is a way to correctly determine overall progress with RSYNC. A progress meter would require know how much work is left to be done.... But rsync doesn't know if a file needs to be synced until it does the checksum of a particular file. If you manually run rsync with the '--progress' argument it gives you a progress bar for each individual file rather the progress as a whole.

Davidh2k's recommendation that refreshing the gui will close the modal dialog while the job continues implies that the frontend and backend are loosely coupled. I'll poke around in the code a bit before making any how making any recommendation about how to reduce user confusion without increasing developer complexity.

Issue reopened with additional feedback based on this thread.

I think that we might be approaching the situation from different perspectives.

As new users, discovering how OpenMediaVault works, Sunseeker and I were confused when the behavior of this Gui pane appears to work differently than other panes. The behavior is not wrong, it is just unexpected.

When reviewing other devices such as routers, nas's, and printers, discoverability is very high on users list of desirable features.

One solution might be to relabel the 'Run' button to 'Run a Test Sync.' That would make the pane a bit more consistent with the notification pane.

@Sunseeker, I have had very good success with rsync on OMV. On my little arm devices the CPU tends to max out at 8-10MB/s transfer speed. However I have never noticed an rsync related error.