SMB, special characters, Mac...

[Sean Hafeez]

So I am trying to switch from mixed NFS and SMB to all SMB. I have a share called music, which is shared via NFS and SMB. When I run an rsync from my Mac local disk via NFS everything is happy. When I try to run it on the same share (but shared via SMB) I get a bunch of file has vanished errors, for example:

file has vanished: "/Volumes/music/Afro Cuban All Stars/A Toda Cuba Le Gusta/08 María Caracoles.mp3"

I have been doing some research and I believe this issues is do to the "special characters" in the filename.

When viewing the directory in Finder I can "see" the file, but opening it does not work and the file icon is not correct (ie, not music icon).

I have tried everything I could find on the web, but I have not found a fix.

I have added fruit and catia to the VFS objects in the share as wells as:

fruit:resource = file
fruit:metadata = netatalk
fruit:locking = netatalk
fruit:encoding = native

Does anyone know how to deal with this?

The SMB service is set for DOC CP437 (which does not matter as this is a Mac) and UNIX UTF-8

Thanks,
Sean

 

[dlavigne]

Which build version of FreeNAS (System -> Information)? Which Mac version?

 

[Sean Hafeez]

Which build version of FreeNAS (System -> Information)? Which Mac version?

macOS High Sierra 10.13
FreeNAS-11.0-U4 (54848d13b)

 

[Sean Hafeez]

As an aside, I setup rsync services on the FreeNAS box and ran rsycn from the Mac to it with no issues. The issue is 100% due to it being a samba share. Every file it complains about vanishing is one with a non-US character in its name.

For example:

file has vanished: "/Volumes/music/Amy Grant/A Christmas Album/03 Preiset Dem König! (Praise The King).mp3"
file has vanished: "/Volumes/music/Ancient Rites/Dim Carcosa/06 Götterdämmerung (Twilight Of The Gods).mp3"
file has vanished: "/Volumes/music/BeauSoleil/L'Amour Ou La Folie/14 Ma Vie S'est Arrêtée.m4a"
file has vanished: "/Volumes/music/Bjork/Medúlla"

 

[dlavigne]

It is probably worth reporting at bugs.freenas.org. If you do, attach a debug (System -> Advanced -> Save Debug) to the report and post the issue number here.

 

[Juliano Arantes]

It seems to be an encoding problem. Although they're all using UTF-8, the Mac uses UTF-8 NFD and FreeNAS uses UTF-8 NFC! When using rsync from you Mac to FreeNAS you should convert it:

Code:

rsync -a --iconv=utf-8-mac,utf-8 localdir/ mynas:remotedir/

Check out this links, they should give you some insight on how to convert it:

https://serverfault.com/questions/3...ilenames-to-utf-8-nfc-in-either-rsync-or-afpd

https://gist.github.com/JamesChevalier/8448512

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2251890

 

[Sean Hafeez]

It seems to be an encoding problem. Although they're all using UTF-8, the Mac uses UTF-8 NFD and FreeNAS uses UTF-8 NFC! When using rsync from you Mac to FreeNAS you should convert it:

Code:

rsync -a --iconv=utf-8-mac,utf-8 localdir/ mynas:remotedir/

Check out this links, they should give you some insight on how to convert it:

https://serverfault.com/questions/3...ilenames-to-utf-8-nfc-in-either-rsync-or-afpd

https://gist.github.com/JamesChevalier/8448512

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2251890

Tried adding this "--iconv=utf-8-mac,utf-8" but still have the same issue.

 

[Juliano Arantes]

When mounting the NFS Share on the Mac, which options are you using? Have you included the "nfc" option? That's a must.

This is what I currently use, and has been giving me the best performance so far:

Code:

mount -t nfs -o rsize=65536,wsize=65536,intr,nolock,locallocks,rdirplus,readahead=128,noatime,nfc,actimeo=0 10.0.1.4:/mnt/Storage/Arquivos /Volumes/FreeNAS

 

[Sean Hafeez]

When mounting the NFS Share on the Mac, which options are you using? Have you included the "nfc" option? That's a must.

This is what I currently use, and has been giving me the best performance so far:

Code:

mount -t nfs -o rsize=65536,wsize=65536,intr,nolock,locallocks,rdirplus,readahead=128,noatime,nfc,actimeo=0 10.0.1.4:/mnt/Storage/Arquivos /Volumes/FreeNAS

The issue is with SMB shares, not NFS. NFS works fine. For NFS I just us the finder GUI to mount the share.

 

[Juliano Arantes]

In that case I'm not sure about what's happening, except that I'm pretty sure it's an encoding issue. But I've decided not to use SMB, performance was terrible, so I can't help much!

 

[Glorious1]

Sean, is the NFS access read-only? I thought the rule is - don't have two shares for the same data, although you can get away with it if one is read only. Each share does it's own permissions, and the result is chaos.