Help adding data mount to ownCloud

[McLeanIT]

I've been using FreeNAS for a while mostly as a digital photo dump for my wife. I recently installed OwnCloud and I'm trying to map the existing pictures to a folder in ownCloud.

I created a storage mount point using the ownCloud Jail like so:

Source: /mnt/DATA/Pictures
Destination: /media/[user]/files/Pictures
Read-Only: (yes)
Create Directory: (yes)
Mounted?: (yes)

When browsing Pictures directory in ownCloud, which should be full of hundreds of dated subfolders with photos inside, instead it appears empty.

I thought it might be a permissions issue but the data volume is set like so:

Owner (user): nobody
Owner (group) wheel
Mode: (Everything checked)
Permission Type: (Unix/Mac)

Can anyone help shed light on my issue? I generally come from a Windows world so please forgive my ignorance if any of this seems like it should be a no-brainer.

Thanks!

 

[anodos]

If the dataset is a share in the host environment, the you should mount the share in owncloud as an external data source using cifs/nfs/whatever rather than nullfs mounting the dataset in the jail.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

If the dataset is a share in the host environment, the you should mount the share in owncloud as an external data source using cifs/nfs/whatever rather than nullfs mounting the dataset in the jail.

partially true. Use an external mountpoint, but use the "local" mount option, no reason to use cifs/nfs when you have nullfs available.

Also, why is it read only? And I instead recommend you just import those pictures into OC so they can be indexed. That's what I did with my wife's 50GB of photos.

• I still use a dataset mounted in, but use it as the datadirectory of OC (I think you're already doing this).
• I then setup the desktop sync client on my computer (for her account)
• I dropped in the 50GB of photos and let it churn away
• Once it was done I removed the account from the OC desktop client so it would stop syncing with my computer and deleted the pictures from my desktop

 

[anodos]

partially true. Use an external mountpoint, but use the "local" mount option, no reason to use cifs/nfs when you have nullfs available.

Oplocks. And other oddness that happens when you mess with the same dataset from multiple protocols.

Also, why is it read only?

I didn't catch that. If the dataset is mounted ro then this is less of a problem. Run getfacl on a folder in thevdataset in the jail.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Oplocks. And other oddness that happens when you mess with the same dataset from multiple protocols.

I didn't catch that. If the dataset is mounted ro then this is less of a problem. Run getfacl on a folder in thevdataset in the jail.

I had to lookup Oplocks, lol, windows has alot of random issues.

Yeah, most people are in agreement, stick to accessing OC files through OC, and not through multiple protocols.

 

[cyberjock]

If you had searched the forums before posting you'd know that this question was already asked this weekend...


/sigh

 

[McLeanIT]

I did do a quick search for this very question. Used the wrong keywords maybe.