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    SSD Cache Speeds?

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

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    Using dd i get +400MB/s (4GB from /dev/null). Maxing out gigabit using ethernet on my laptop and any where from 75 - 160MB/s from my ubuntu vm using 3 old laptop drives in raid0 using ZFS. Both unraid and ubuntu are running on the same Esxi host and connected via samba

    plugins - how to avoid package conflicts?

    in General Support (V5 and Older)

    Posted

    If you have the time and patience I would upgrade to unraid 6 and use VMs for all apps. Plugins will always be a bit of a hassle unless they are contained in e.g. Docker

     

    Just spin up a Ubuntu 14.04 virtual machine, read a bit about the setup in the forums and then you can use all these programs natively on Ubuntu and let the package manager handle all conflicts (you should not run into any)

     

    Then unraid can focus on what it was designed to do while your vm can be used to run other services

    How do you manage shares?

    in Virtual Machines - Xen

    Posted

    Hi guys

     

    I have been using Esxi with Unraid for some time and really happy with that. Now I am currently moving some friends servers over from Plugins to XEN + VMS and that made me start wondering how people are managing shares from Unraid to Guests.

     

    Fist off lets start with the dilemma:

     

    Lets make an example where I have 3 shares that are all shared with a guest via samba (the same dilemma applies to NFS):

     

    /mnt/user/Movies
/mnt/user/Music
/mnt/user/Misc

     

    If I am in Unraid i can instantly move files from one user share to another since the operating system knows that it´s just moving the file on the same filesystem.

    However if I´m in the guest VM the operating system does not know that these 3 shares are all on the same host and has to copy the files between the shares:

     

    Unraid: 
"mv /mnt/user/Misc/somefile.avi /mnt/user/Movies"  -> the file is moved instantly

Guest OS: 
"mv //Misc/somefile.avi /net/Movies" -> The file is copied from the //Misc through the Guest to //Movies = Really slow

     

    This makes it really difficult to use automated programs on the guest OS since every file is copied instead of just moved.

     

    My first solution

     

    In the beginning I made a ".new" folder in every share and copied everything new into that first. So I would copy a unsorted movie file to //Movies/.upload and the post processor could move the file anywhere within //Movies without the need to copy it

     

    My current solution

     

    Now I´m using a empty share called VMGUEST that only contains symbolic links to the folders I want the VM to get access to:

    /mnt/user/VMGUEST then contains a symbolic link to Movies, Music & Misc:

     

    /mnt/user/VMGUEST/Movies -> /mnt/user/Movies/
/mnt/user/VMGUEST/Music -> /mnt/user/Music/
/mnt/user/VMGUEST/Misc -> /mnt/user/Misc/

     

    That means that my fstab only has the one samba mount (//VMGUEST) and the VM´s operating system knows that files moved between the folders can just be moved.

     

    Other ideas?

     

    Of course it would be easy just to make one big share called /mnt/user/Media and have Movies, Music and Misc under that, but that is a solution I don´t like :)

     

    Another solution would be to share the whole /mnt/user directory via smb-extra.conf - but I don't like that either

     

    Your solution?

     

    How are you guys managing your guest shares?

     

    TL:DR

    How do you setup your guest shares so the guest can move/postprocess files between folders without needing to copy the files between samba shares?

     

     

     

     

     

    (Solved) Unraid and openvpn client

    in User Customizations

    Posted

    Hey guys

     

    I would like to be able to use a openvpn client on my unraid box but only route specific traffic through it. Everything would go through the normal network accept a short list of addresses that would go through the vpn connection.

     

    First off, is that possible? Does anyone have any guidelines for me how I could make this happen in Unraid?

     

    Secondly i was wondering about security. If i would leave the vpn connected am I compromising the security of the box? Could I be sharing my unraid web console etc with other users on the vpn (bought subscription)?

     

    [EDIT] Solved: see this thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=19439.msg205060#msg205060

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