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Has anyone tried unmounting / stopping the filesystem as the cacher disk is moving files to the array? If my theory is correct, it would unmount all disks except the one in use.

No idea :-( I wouldn't want to go through this again until I actually know what I did the first time! Perhaps try getting it working in a virtual first?

I used the slackware .config and also the menuconfig (I think menuconfig grabs the defaults from .config). File is here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3828.0;attach=1623

No probs... would adding my .config to a comment help you at all or make things worse?

So I believe rc.S runs no matter what and rc.K is for single user mode and rc.M is multi-user. I looked in rc.M and there is no mention of fuse, and as I said before I disabled the rc.fuse mention in rc.S. dmesg still shows fuse loading, which I believe is the kernel. I run my server headless so I want to capture what streams by on the screen during boot. Is this stored in a file somewhere or do I just have to connect a monitor and watch it? Well that's good start that fuse is still loading before your go script or rc.local (which is what I was trying to get at before with the module thing). As for the boot screen, I thought dmesg shows this but I guess not. I may/may not have mentioned it, but I copied all the fuse stuff and md stuff from the unraid kernel to my kernel source before compiling. This may have made a difference too.

Just noticed... I believe rc.S. is for single user mode, normally, Linux boots into Multi-user mode which is rc.M. Because you have renamed rc.fuse, any scripts should not load this. I believe mine loads from the kernel itself. I'm happy to share whatever info you need from my system :-)

What I found in /lib/modules/2.6.27.7/kernel/fs/fuse/ was fuse.ko. Is your intention to copy this to /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-unRAID/kernel/fs/fuse/? This is what I did. Then I renamed rc.fuse and removed the reference to fuse in rc.S. Tried a reboot and no-dice, then tried the start-stop method of getting it to work, which worked previously, and now it doesn't. Did I copy fuse.ko to the right place? Thanks, Phil/TW Hi Phil, Yes, that is the file I copied across to the same folder and it worked for me after that. I noticed that on bootup it was saying 'the fuse filesystem has already been loaded'. I had also compiled fuse support into my kernel as a module - perhaps thats why it's working for me? Hopefully this gives you something to work on... it does work perfectly for me now, however, it took me around 12 hours (straight) of messing around with it. I do remember copying /md* to the unraid kernel and (possibly) all the fuse stuff too before compiling... perhaps thats what I did. Someone with some more experience may be able to help :-)

Hey Torque.. Can you try this and let me know if it works?: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3828.msg33853#msg33853

I've narrowed it down to this now (and I'm forgetting about NFS for a while): Using the details in the last part of this page: http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/unraid-on-hard-drive.html, in order to get user shares working I must (after a reboot): 1) Stop the array 2) Disable User shares 3) Start the array 4) Stop the array 5) Enable user shares 6) Start the array Surely I'm missing something? edit (again): I've FINALLY got it working on reboot... For those who are interested (and this may / may not work for you): 1) mkdir /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-unRAID/kernel/fs/fuse 2) cp /lib/modules/2.6.27.7/kernel/fs/fuse/* /2.6.27.7-unRAID 3) mv /etc/rc.d/rc.fuse /etc/rc.d/rc.fuse.disabled Stop array / Reboot via emhttp Make sure you dont have any scripts that load /etc/rc.d/rc.fuse :-) This is all assuming that you have compiled a kernel with Fuse support as a module, running slackware 12.2 and unraid 4.4.2. My .config is below and is setup for an ABIT AB9 PRO. Cheers!

OK, I have been working on this for the last 8.5 hours and now I'm beat. Things I have achieved: 1) Installed Slackware 12.2 onto my primary IDE drive with 3 paritions: /dev/hda1 = cache parition, /dev/hda2 = root parition, /dev/hda3 = swap partition 2) compiled a custom kernel with/for unRaid + virtualisation and rebooted into the new kernel successfully 3) Got emhttp running, assigned my drives, all is well 4) \\tower\diskX is working - that's good 5) \\tower\<user share> is visible, but not working. I used the default .config file from unraid, and added IDE/SATA support, SysV support (for apache) and virtualisation support (for vmware). I can't find any syslogs at all that show any issues, I can't find any logs that smbd / nmbd is complaing about either. I know a couple of people have had this issue before but am unsure if anyone has successfully got user-shares working with unraid on a HDD. I've also copied these 2 files plus all the rc.<server> files to their respective directory: /unraid/etc/rc.d/rc.fuse /unraid/bin/fusermount So in brief... everything works except user-shares. Has anyone got any idea on how to get this working? the kids are killling me! Edit: I've been messing around with the Kernel again... I had also tried this with CIFS but have now hone back to SAMBA instead of CIFS as I read somewhere that this is what Tom is using in unRaid? Anyway, I enabled samba, and am now stuck on the NFS part (small issue in the scheme of things: (FATAL: Error inserting nfsd (/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-unRAID/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko): Device or resource busy Should NFS server be a module or * ?

Ah ha... thanks for that... it turns out the copy/paste had word wrapped when i put it in the .conf file... everytime i pressed install it would overwrite the .manual_install file

Does the last part of this url help you at all regarding fuse?: http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/unraid-on-hard-drive.html

Awesome.. I'll give that a shot ;-)

Hi All, I'm currently running unRAID v4.4.2 (due to the instructions only being available for this version) with VMWare on top. Everything is working fine except the vmware guest is really slow due to disk writes which I read would happen anyway if you run it on a drive with parity. I have thought about this quite often and I'd like to run the following: 1) Full slackware 12.2 distro installed onto a primary IDE drive (160gb) 1a) partitioned into: 40gb [Cache], 110gb [OS], 5gb [swap] 2) Install VMWare onto the OS partition 3) Still boot into the unRAID kernel with my licence file (I'd assume I boot from the USB stick?) Is all this possible? I have setup unraid in vmware using slackware 12.2 + unraid 4.4.2, then packaged the files i needed to run vmware on my live server - so it shouldn't be a huge difference I'd imagine. My questions really relate to point 1a - Would this still work? Before you ask, I'd like to run other apps etc in the future so yes, a full distro would suit me better. Thanks!

installpkg mysql-5.0.67-i486-1.tgz [ ! -d /mnt/disk1/mysql ] && mkdir /mnt/disk1/mysql chown -R mysql /mnt/disk1/mysql/ cp /etc/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf sed -i -e "s/#innodb_data_home_dir = \/var\/lib\/mysql\//innodb_data_home_dir = sed -i -e "s/#innodb_log_group_home_dir = \/var\/lib\/mysql\//innodb_log_group_home_dir = sed -i -e "s/#innodb_log_arch_dir = \/var\/lib\/mysql\//innodb_log_arch_dir = [ ! -d /mnt/disk1/mysql/mysql ] && /usr/bin/mysql_install_db --datadir=/mnt/disk1/mysql/ cd /usr ; /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/mnt/disk1/mysql/ --user=mysql & [ ! -e /mnt/disk1/mysql/.unmenu ] && /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'your_password' [ ! -e /mnt/disk1/mysql/.unmenu ] && /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h Tower2 --password=your_password [ ! -d /mnt/disk1/mysql/Helium ] && /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h Tower2 --password=your_password [ -d /mnt/disk1/mysql/Helium ] && mysql -u root -h Tower2 --password=your_password [ -d /mnt/disk1/mysql/test ] && /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h Tower2 -f --password=your_password touch /mnt/disk1/mysql/.unmenu