Newbie and Fstab

[rjcb]

Hello,

I am starting with TrueNas and I don't understand why my fstab comes back to the initial config at each reboot.
For exemple:

I set:

/dev/da1p1 /mnt/diskint ufs rw 0 0 0

When I reboot only the default line remains:
fdescfs /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0

Thanks :)

 

[sretalla]

Config at the CLI is potentially going to be overwritten... as you are told every time you open the CLI.

Code:

Welcome to TrueNAS

Warning: settings changed through the CLI are not written to
the configuration database and will be reset on reboot.

If you want that change to be there on every boot, you need to script it with sed or similar and run that script as a post-init.

 

[rjcb]

Thanks for the quick reply. I just need to add a new hard disk with a mount point :)

 

[jgreco]

Why not just add your disk as a new ZFS pool?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

To add to @jgreco's post - ZFS is the only file system supported for storage in TrueNAS. Even if you manage to add a UFS filesystem like in your fstab entry, you will not be able to use it for any services.

 

[jgreco]

To add to @jgreco's post - ZFS is the only file system supported for storage in TrueNAS. Even if you manage to add a UFS filesystem like in your fstab entry, you will not be able to use it for any services.

That might not be strictly true; NFS, for example, would probably work, but I expect there would be problems with SMB because of all the ZFS- and iX-specific module work done by @anodos ... however, it is certainly skeezy and also risky to have disks attached that the middleware does not understand.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

As far as I know the middleware prohibits configuring any share on anything but a configured ZFS pool. I'm not 100% confident I am correct.

 

[jgreco]

As far as I know the middleware prohibits configuring any share on anything but a configured ZFS pool. I'm not 100% confident I am correct.

You are certainly correct in that it attempts to do so. But it is a weak willed error prone attempt; it is happy to accept a non-ZFS submountpoint.

Code:

root@nas0:/mnt/storage0 # mkdir shareme
root@nas0:/mnt/storage0 # mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt/storage0/shareme
root@nas0:/mnt/storage0 # df shareme
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
tmpfs        3964904    4 3964900     0%    /mnt/storage0/shareme

Then go to webUI and share that via NFS

Code:

root@nas0:/mnt/storage0 # grep shareme /etc/exports
/mnt/storage0/shareme

Ta da, non-ZFS share shared. We worked this out at some point for a fellow who wanted iSCSI file extents on UFS, which definitely works (or at least worked). I would not expect this to work for SMB due to all the ZFS-specific stuff.

 

[rjcb]

Ok, thanks for the replies. So I did that so far:

I created one pool with on disk (I know the risk).
My need is to:

Backup my data form my cloud subscription to my local hard disk in a folder named pcloud
Backup my data from my laptop to my local hard disk in a folder named laptop

Is that possible ?

Many Thanks

 

[sretalla]

Backup my data form my cloud subscription to my local hard disk in a folder named pcloud

using a cloud sync task (based on having created a cloud credential first)

Backup my data from my laptop to my local hard disk in a folder named laptop

Many ways to do that, but SMB share and using Windows backup to point at that share is the one that's already there.

Is that possible ?

Yes, see above, maybe create a dataset for each of those if you would like to have different snapshot frequencies, permissions, recordsizes or otherwise keep the data separate.

 

[rjcb]

Thanks a lot. I am starting to understand the philosophy of the OS :)

 

[rjcb]

Now am able to share with NFS et SMB. I have just another question.
I have installed the plugin Motion and I want to save the record in a specific folder: /mnt/diskint/camera but doesn't work.

However in /mnt it works, I do not understand why :-/

 

[rjcb]

Ok in looking deeper, I found that I need to create a Jail what I've done so and mount a point, but :

I want that my record from camera goes to /mnt/diskint/camera so I need to select the below source and select the default folder of records in MotionEye (/var/lib/motioneye/ but I don't find the path in the below destination.

 

[rjcb]

mhmhm nobody :( ?

 

[sretalla]

There's nothing wrong with typing a path if you know it's there or you want it to be created.

 

[rjcb]

Thanks. To be honest I do not understand ... and my need seems easy, at least on Linux OS.
I would like that the path of my records of my cameras is /mnt/diskint/camera.

But it doesn't work when I try to do it via Jails to mount points.
When I try to set the path /mnt/diskint/camera and I save it shows
/mnt/diskint/iocage/jails/camerafolder/root/mnt/diskint/camera

 

[sretalla]

Looks to me like you have it backwards... hence not working.

Source is /mnt/diskint/camera

Destination is /mnt/diskint/iocage/jails/wheteverJailRunsMotionEye/root/var/lib/motioneye

You need to think of jail mounts as mounting storage into the jail, not the other way around.

 

[rjcb]

Ok, so I try to progress :)
I did that :

but my records are in mnt/diskint/iocage/jails/Portier/root/var/lib/motioneye and when I set this path in the first screen it doesn't take it :(

 

[sretalla]

OK, I see what's happening... you're trying to add a mount to the wrong jail (you're in camerafolder when trying to add that mount).

 

[rjcb]

Thanks a lot, indeed it was the mistake !