Adding settings to resilio sync on truenas scale (truecharts)

[Dan Rimer]

Hi there

My Resilio Sync app is displaying a (non blocking) error message in the GUI "Agent Run Out Of System Notify Watchers". The fix from Resilio, as detailed on here, is to change the variable max_user_watches, either temporarily with:

Code:

sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=XXXXX

or permanently with:

Code:

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=XXXXXX | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p

The problem is that the app has a readonly filesystem and the sudo command doesn't exist.

As you can guess, I'm new to all this so if anyone can give me a push in the right direction, i'd appreciate it!

thanks

 

[truecharts]

To be frank:
If a commercial backup solution doesn't want to build decent software, it seems wrong to alter the host system to ensure their broken application can run in a docker container.
Relying on increased inotify settings for a backup/sync solution without a plan-b for systems that do not have root access, seems idiotic.

So not likely to recieve any assistence from us on this.

 

[Dan Rimer]

not the answer or the spirit i was hoping for in an answer, but thanks

 

[truecharts]

not the answer or the spirit i was hoping for in an answer, but thanks

Yeah, it absolutely sucks that this is the case. But this would either need to be done on the host, or with root access on the container.

The later can actually be done by us in theory, but adding init containers to make changes on the host to support badly writen software... is not very wise from a security perspective, so we would, most likely, not merge such a change.

However: you're free to make these changes to the host system yourself and on your own risk ofcoarse.
Remember: it's a host change, not a container change.

The readonly warning looks like you tried to make the change inside the container. Thats not going to work.

 

[Dan Rimer]

Thanks for the info. I'm new to the way that Scale manages apps. I've used trueNas core for some time and unRAID at home without any issues. Hence my assumption that it's something wrong with Scale/container.

I've got other issues regarding IPs abd subnets, so I'll start another topic.

Again, thanks for your replies.

 

[Sawtaytoes]

How did you even install the Docker Container as an application in TrueNAS SCALE?

From what I'm seeing, you need to click "Pull Image" under Applications:

Then you can add `resilio/sync` like so:

But from here, I see the image is downloaded, but I have no clue how to run it other than Launch Docker Image, but from there, I don't know how to configure it in TrueNAS.

 

[ddos127]

Resilo Sync is available via truecharts, I assume that's how he's attempting to install it

 

[Sawtaytoes]

Resilo Sync is available via truecharts, I assume that's how he's attempting to install it

Yep! This is how I later got it working!

At the time, I didn't realize TrueCharts and TrueNAS Charts were 2 different things.

 

[ddos127]

Yep! This is how I later got it working!

At the time, I didn't realize TrueCharts and TrueNAS Charts were 2 different things.

I never managed to get it to work on TrueNAS which when I think about it was a bad idea anyway.

I spun up an LXC on Proxmox, and it's happily living there now, TreuNAS is a storage solution

 

[truecharts]

Yep! This is how I later got it working!

At the time, I didn't realize TrueCharts and TrueNAS Charts were 2 different things.

For clearity:
"TrueNAS Charts" doesn't actually exist.

There is an "Official" catalog that has a train called "charts", but that's about it.

 

[ddos127]

For clearity:
"TrueNAS Charts" doesn't actually exist.

There is an "Official" catalog that has a train called "charts", but that's about it.

It's truecharts

 

[Sawtaytoes]

It's truecharts

TrueCharts is different from TrueNAS Official apps and need to be manually added to TrueNAS:

I prefer the TrueCharts versions because they provide more flexible configuration options.

 

[ddos127]

Truecharts is truecharts, that's understood

Having said that, and after playing with truecharts for some time, I would not use any of the apps for production purposes, home use ok but from my experience not ready for the real world yet.