Pointing Vortexbox and Squeezebox Server to Network Stora Device

**hifihere** · 06-30-2012, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by hifihere

The Drobo comes with a "Public" folder so my path was:

//10.x.x.x/public /storage/music/flac cifs guest,_netdev 0 0

The Drobo has a very slow I/O but it is streaming audio OK so far.*

I am about to test 1080P video now.

Can anyone suggest a path that would mount all the storage on the remote NAS? I would like to move the entire storage directory tree from the SSD boot drive to the Drobo NAS.

**Ron Olsen** · 06-30-2012, 03:49 PM

Edit /etc/fstab to

1. Change the Drobo line to mount the Drobo public folder at /storage:

Code:

//10.x.x.x/public /storage cifs guest,_netdev 0 0

2. Delete the line that mounts /storage from the internal hard drive:

Code:

/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_storage /storage ext4 defaults 1 2

(or comment it out by prefixing the line with a #).

3. Check with "mount -a" when done editing /etc/fstab.

**hifihere** · 07-01-2012, 01:47 AM

Terrific Ron! I will give it a shot soon.

Originally Posted by Ron Olsen

Edit /etc/fstab to

1. Change the Drobo line to mount the Drobo public folder at /storage:

Code:

//10.x.x.x/public /storage cifs guest,_netdev 0 0

2. Delete the line that mounts /storage from the internal hard drive:

Code:

/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_storage /storage ext4 defaults 1 2

(or comment it out by prefixing the line with a #).

3. Check with "mount -a" when done editing /etc/fstab.

**hifihere** · 07-01-2012, 09:17 AM

Ron, do I need to manually create the read/write and read only file directory on the NAS?

**Ron Olsen** · 07-01-2012, 12:31 PM

No, but you should create music, pictures, and movies directories under public on your NAS.

You want the directories set up under /storage to look the same whether you're mounting /storage from the internal hard drive or from the NAS.

**hifihere** · 07-03-2012, 03:01 AM

Originally Posted by Ron Olsen

Edit /etc/fstab to

1. Change the Drobo line to mount the Drobo public folder at /storage:

Code:

//10.x.x.x/public /storage cifs guest,_netdev 0 0

2. Delete the line that mounts /storage from the internal hard drive:

Code:

/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_storage /storage ext4 defaults 1 2

(or comment it out by prefixing the line with a #).

3. Check with "mount -a" when done editing /etc/fstab.

Should this line remain?
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0

**Ron Olsen** · 07-03-2012, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by hifihere

Should this line remain?
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0

Yes it should remain.

**hifihere** · 07-06-2012, 02:38 AM

Hi Ron,

I was able to put this to the test today. Here are a few observations.

The internal drive is still being mounted for storage and the Drobo is also. When the first CD was ripped the folders were dynamically created and mirrored on both drives.

The first Blu-ray rip placed the mkv in the tmp folder and it remained there after completion.

I rem'd out the internal mount but it still mounts. Here is my fstab:

/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=866d8d86-b531-436a-ad33-4fa8c8817d10 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
# /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_storage /storage ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
//10.0.0.3/public /storage cifs guest,_netdev 0 0

**Pegase** · 08-04-2012, 06:46 AM

Hi all, and thanks for the useful explanations present on this thread.
Following those advice I managed to point the flac and mp3 directories of my vortexbox to my drobbo-fs with the following entries in my fstabs file :

Code:

192.168.0.113:/musique/Flac /storage/music/flac cifs guest,_netdev 0 0
192.198.0.113:/musique /storage/music/mp3 cifs guest,_netdev 0 0

I can rip to the flac directory and LMS can stream the music from it, implying that both read and write access are operational.

However, the Flac Mirror constantly returns the following message :

Code:

Using flac from: /usr/bin/flac
Using lame from: /usr/bin/lame
Processing directory: /storage/music/flac
Found 0 flac file

I have tried adding appropriate username and password fields in the fstab without success.
Any idea about where this comes from and how to correct it would be very welcome !

**beeka** · 08-06-2012, 05:55 AM

Originally Posted by Pegase

However, the Flac Mirror constantly returns the following message :

Code:

Using flac from: /usr/bin/flac
Using lame from: /usr/bin/lame
Processing directory: /storage/music/flac
Found 0 flac file

I had a similar problem with mirroring when I pointed the vortexbox to a NAS. IIRC, there is something in the mirror script that doesn't follow symbolic links (at least onto remote filesystems). As /storage/music/flac is a link to the NAS (I assume) then it doesn't look any further. This may have changed since I last tried to fix it. I am not familar with Perl, so it was simpler for me to write a python script to do what I wanted (mirroring flac to mp3).

Steve.