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  1. Has anybody tried this with recent versions? Although the note is a bit old I don't see why it shouldn't work with 6.9.

     

    I will try it later, but has anybody been using it?

     

     

    https://github.com/thohell/unRAID-bzoverlay

     

    I've already been using a vmdk bootdisk for unraid under ESXi for years (Unraid boots off vmdk, but config files are still on USB).

     

    The linked method has additional advantages:

    -no writes to USB drive

    -no need to copy boot files from USB to vmdk during upgrade.

     

     

  2. 12 hours ago, limetech said:

     

    Ok I will be totally honest: If you want something like this added, please show the actual code changes you want to see.  This is because it does not make sense for me to spend the time figuring out exactly what you want, then testing it, then tweaking it, etc., when it benefits <1% of the user base, when I could be spending the time on something that would be of benefit to >99% of the user base.

     

    Let me try again :-)

     

    Is there any way I can insert custom *.sh script which gets launched when Unraid upgrade is finished (as a last step in upgrade routine).

    Thanks.

     

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    You mean in the unRAIDServer.plg file?  Maybe provide an example of what you want to see.
    After upgrade process is completed (upgrade button pressed and all files got downloaded and copied to flash) I'd like to execute simple command, like cp /boot/xyz /disks/vmdk/ prior to reboot.
    I have vmdk mounted by unassigned devices, but that script could as well mount it as a first step.

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  4. Anybody wanting to use this needs to update kernel-headers version from "19"to "21". Just edit the plg file to do so.

    Also prior to installation make sure plg file name is openVMTools_auto.plg

     

     

    Otherwise the plugin will not be loaded upon next reboot and VMTools will not start. 

  5. I used the preclear plugin. But when I try to run the script, it keeps telling me the drive is busy! Why can't I get this thing to preclear? I'm thinking of just putting the drive in the array and forgetting preclear.
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    I had to kill it from cli and start over. Luckily it saves progress periodically and resumes where it left off.

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  6. Seems the fault lies with preclear. It crashed on a segmentation fault. I'm going to reboot and try it from a command line.

    Btw, I'm not hung up on the fancy names either. That's just what they call it. I have a 10TB WD Gold that runs like a top so when they came out with a 12TB for the same price as the 10TB I grabbed it up. Being 62 myself I think I'm an old timer myself lol!

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    Did you use preclear plugin?
    It tends to die i.e. stops progressing and cpu and memory utilization for preclear script skyrocket to 100%.

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  7. Great work on 6.4. No problems upgrading and everything works right away.

     

    I'm not sure it this had been addressed already, but virtually all new visual themes put too much spacing between lines of text. It is very evident on 'Main' page, where array disks take a lot of vertical space, because each disk is separated by a big gap.

    Any way to change it or create compact theme?

     

    thanks bonienl...

  8. Why iSCSI?

    -because every comparable NAS solution already has it (FreeNAS, Synology, Qnap, OpenFiler...),

    -because it is easy to add,

    -because it would help some of us, already using unRAID for everything else, dump other solutions existing for the sole purpose of serving iSCSI targets (think mostly for ESXi home labs),

    -a few other edge cases where access to block-level devices is required or preferred over smb or NFS.

     

    On the other note I don't get why some people uninterested in the topic try to discourage Tom from looking at it. I don't have any use for e.g. graphics card pass-through to VM, but I don't advocate to stop wasting development time on it.

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  9. One good case would be for home labs, and for IT professionals using LT NAS in conjunction with other system OS's like Microsoft, Citrix, Redhat, and VMware.  ISCSI is a cross platform industry standard for connecting storage and it would be nice to have.

     

    iSCSI is a block-level protocol.  How should an iSCSI LUN be mapped to unRAID storage?  The only use case I can see for this is a SAN.

    Probably like Windows Server and Linux do by creating virtual disk image on existing filesystem and using it for iSCSI target. Even if somebody wants to create plugin they need support in kernel.

  10. I'd like to be able to limit total memory allocated for all Dockers running. For instance system has 6GB of RAM allocated to unRAID and I want to set a hard limit of max 4GB to be utilized by Dockers, leaving 2GB (in worst case scenario) for NAS subsystem (emhttp, SAMBA, etc). That would hopefully prevent Out of Memory occurrences killing important processes when suddenly some Docker decides to use tons of RAM.

     

    That could,for example, be implemented as a global Docker setting in respective GUI.

     

    I know this could be solved by manually adding -m parameter to each Docker, but what about simple solution like this:

     

    For EACH DOCKER->

    IF (-m not specified) append -m <global setting> ELSE use existing -m <value> entered by user

     

    EDIT: LOL, I realized the above would not work properly and it doesn't achieve what I wanted i.e. it would not limit TOTAL memory usage.

    Is there any way to do it at all (cgroups)?

     

     

  11. Mine shows Sao Miguel too, specifically the town of Ponta Delgada, presumably some default. I don't know how it's meant to work out the true location anyway.

     

    There's a lot of information displayed and it's all superficially very pretty but the graphs tend to use subtle shades of a few colours each so are difficult to interpret. Also, it doesn't seem very customisable. I was hoping to be able to monitor my DSL router, which has SNMP enabled, in order to keep an eye on SNR margin and sync speed but so far have only been able to monitor traffic.

    SNMP Host location is taken from SNMP definitions of that device. In case of unraid it should be possible to edit SNMP config file and specify location. In case of some home devices, especially managed switches you can specify location in their GUIs.

    You can also specify the above in Observium itself (edit host) and don't bother with finding the setting in a given host.