Struggling to get greyhole working

[uwmad]

Another question I have. Is it possible to put the partition labeled /home in the storage pool? I'd like to utilize all of that space but I have a suspicion I should have formatted the drive differently.

thanks

[bigfoot65]

I would not recommend it. For Greyhole to work properly and be true redundancy, you need separate drives.

By putting copies of files on the same drive as the original files defeats the purpose. If that drive dies, 2 copies of files are gone vs 1. What I recommend is to partition the OS drive differently and make /home smaller. Then make a separate partition for /var/hda/files to be mounted on that drive. Since that is the landing zone and where shares live, makes more sense.

By adding additional drives/partitions to the storage pool, it will put copies of files on each of those drives/partitions. The only way to prevent it is to configure Greyhole to use certain drives/partitions for the files. It's a little more complicated set up and I avoid it myself.

Hope that makes a little more sense.

[uwmad]

That makes sense.

Still trying to get greyhole t work for me. In the dashboard what should the location read in the shares? At the moment mine show: /var/hda/files/drives/drive1

Is that correct or could that be the reason for the odd error message when I run -f?

thanks

[bigfoot65]

This is correct providing the sharename is appended to the end of the path. For example the share location for Pictures should read:

/var/hda/files/drives/drive1/pictures

[uwmad]

That must have been causing that weird error. I corrected the location and ran -f. The other error message went away:

Mar 01 09:08:56 6 fsck: Starting fsck for /var/hda/files/videos
Mar 01 09:08:56 6 fsck: fsck for /var/hda/files/videos completed.
Mar 01 09:08:56 7 sleep: Nothing to do... Sleeping.

Progress, but greyhole still doesn't seem to be moving files out of the landing zone so I can't add any files to the server

[bigfoot65]

AH, I think I see the issue.

The path for your shares should be:
/var/hda/files/pictures and not the Greyhole drive. The files still exist in that location, but when Greyhole does it stuff they will be turned into symlinks.

Don't know why I did not see that before.

[uwmad]

Not sure why videos was pointing to the greyhole drive (i must of change that for some reason), the others were all pointing to /var/hda/files/xxx . I corrected the videos path and that seemed to get rid of the weird fsck error but the files still aren't moving out of the landing zone.

thanks

[bigfoot65]

Ok, try restarting samba and then greyhole.

Next if that still does not work, please post the result of

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ls -al /var/hda/files

and a few lines from

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ls -al /var/hda/files/videos

Please don't give me everything as I am sure it's a long list.

[bigfoot65]

BTW, also check /var/hda/files/drives/drive1 for the existence of the folder gh. If it does not exist, create it.

[uwmad]

only three lines from the second command so i copied it all

[root@office uwmad]# ls -al /var/hda/files
total 40
drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root 4096 Feb 20 21:05 .
drwxr-xr-x. 13 root root 4096 Feb 10 20:46 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 uwmad users 4096 Feb 10 21:22 books
drwxrwxr-x 2 uwmad users 4096 Feb 10 21:22 docs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 10 21:15 drives
drwxrwxr-x 2 uwmad users 4096 Feb 20 20:32 movies
drwxrwxr-x 2 uwmad users 4096 Feb 10 21:22 music
drwxrwxr-x 2 uwmad users 4096 Feb 10 21:22 pictures
drwxrwxr-x 2 uwmad users 4096 Feb 10 21:22 public
drwxrwxr-x 3 uwmad users 4096 Feb 20 21:05 videos
[root@office uwmad]# ls -al /var/hda/files/videos
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 3 uwmad users 4096 Feb 20 21:05 .
drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root 4096 Feb 20 21:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 20 21:05 drives