plex permissions, read-only file system error

[nojohnny101]

I have search and searched and searched. There are so many topics on this but I can't do what they are saying because it seems my permission as so screwed up.

I have successfully installed plex in a jail and everything is fine with that. I went to "chmod" the permission of the folders within the jail so that they could communicate with what they point to outside of the jail but I keep getting a "read-only file system" error.

So then I tried changing permissions on the folders outside the jail and it won't even let me do that! I get an error in the console saying:
"read-only files system"

I'm stumped. why can't I even change permission on a folder outside of my jail (I suspect these two problems are related)?

HELP!

 

[nojohnny101]

update:
this is not looking good. It seems I can not change permissions for any of my datasets. This is not just a plex problem.

ex: I have a dataset called "Master". It has the the following permissions:

I have a CIFS share and login as "master" (who is the owner). I does not let me write anything to it?

What is going on? What more do I need to do to investigate.

FYI. All of these datasets were recently replicated over from a backup. I had destroyed the pool because it was a 4x3tb RAIDz2 and created a 6x3tb RAIDz2 and then replicated everything from the backup freenas box back to the newly built pool.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Your login to a CIFS share doesn't necessarily map to the same user on the underlying UNIX system.
Other than that, I'm not much of CIFS expert.

 

[nojohnny101]

@Joshua Parker Ruehlig thanks for the thoughts.

What I don't understand though is why this has anything to do with changing permissions in the CLI? Isn't this independents of a "share"? All the datasets are set to unix style permissions. What is blocking me from changing permissions regardless of what shares I have?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

@Joshua Parker Ruehlig thanks for the thoughts.

What I don't understand though is why this has anything to do with changing permissions in the CLI? Isn't this independents of a "share"? All the datasets are set to unix style permissions. What is blocking me from changing permissions regardless of what shares I have?

Thanks for your help.

Im not sure what you are asking. you can change permissions on the CLI using root?

 

[nojohnny101]

no actually that didn't work as well. I ended up just creating new datasets and moving all the data (but not permission) to the new datasets. fixed obviously.

It was really a strange problem.

 

[m0nkey_]

I'd be curious to learn if you were using Windows or UNIX type dataset. Windows datasets typically will not allow you to change filesystem permissions using conventional ch{mod|own} etc.

 

[nojohnny101]

@m0nkey_ here was my setup:

pool had unix permissions
each dataset had unix permissions

 

[nojohnny101]

just a last update. I didn't have an overly complicated setup so I just ended up creating new datasets and then moving the raw data over to them which reset the permissions.