Plex mount points, getting "not distinct paths" error

[Phil Demand]

Hi all-
Working with a plugin for the first time. I'll try to give all the details I can.

After setting the source and destination mount points in the Plex jail, when I start the plugin I receive an error saying the points are not distinct paths. Any help?

11.2-U6
SuperMicro X10SLL-F
i3 4170 @ 3.7 GHz
166gb ECC

 

[Fredda]

You're trying you create a recursion. You can't mount a folder into its subfolder.

 

[Phil Demand]

Ok. I'm a novice at all this. Can you point to a resource that may help me solve this?

 

[Fredda]

There is no way, what you try is not possible.
You can not mount /mnt/pool/foo into /mnt/pool/foo/bar/jail/mnt as it will cause a loop.
Your destination folder has to be outside your source folder.
Mounting /mnt/pool/foo/baz into /mnt/pool/foo/bar/jail/mnt will work.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

More precisely: don't use /mnt/NASdrive as the source but /mnt/NASdrive/where/your/media/files/reside/and/it/better/be/outside/that/iocage/dataset

HTH,
Patrick

 

[Jeff Groh]

Is it possible to have mount points from different sources(two different pools) pointed to the same destination(/mnt/Media/Movies/Movies & /mnt/Media2/Movies/Movies source with destination /mnt/Media2/iocage/jails/PlexServer/root/mnt/Movies)? I add the mount points, but it only sees the last mount point added.

 

[Fredda]

No you can't. What you see is exactly the expected behavior.

 

[sretalla]

You could, however mount each of them into a subdirectory at the same level, so you would have /mnt/Media2/iocage/jails/PlexServer/root/mnt/Movies1 and /mnt/Media2/iocage/jails/PlexServer/root/mnt/Movies2, which you could then use your plex library manager to add as 2 paths in the one library... same end result (and I think the one you wanted).