Storage For Transmission Issues

[Eric Hamby]

I have been trying to make some storage folders for my torrents for a bit now and cant seem to get it. I would just use defaults but i cant access the folders via share on windows.

Right now on my ZFS drive i have the following structure.
/mnt/ZFS
/mnt/ZFS/jails

I would like the following
/mnt/ZFS
/mnt/ZFS/jails
/mnt/ZFS/Torrents
/mnt/ZFS/Torrents/Downloading
/mnt/ZFS/Torrents/Completed

Now i made the folders but how do i tell transmission and the jail to use those folders? Every time i think i have it and try a torrent i get no permissions.


"EDIT" i tried downloading something with default settings and also getting permission denied with default also.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

you mounted those into your transmission jail? if not transmission has no access to them. this is covered in the docs.

also I recommend you don't make separate datasets for torrents/complete and torrents/downloading. I'd make these folders under your torrents dataset instead. the way torrents process this would save you read-write-remove operation, instead it'd be a move operation (cause they're on the same virtual filesystem).

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

the transmission user needs permissions to write into whatever folder you specify. either make the folder owned by the transmission user, or relax the folder's permissions to 777.