Vero 4K - NAS / Disk Spin up

[richjjoh]

I have a file server, which is exporting a large media collection. This is mounted on the Vero using NFS via FSTAB, mounted into a dir within /mnt.

All works very well, until the server disks spin down. With the disks spun down the menu system can take a while to react.

This time to react can be quite a long time, far longer than I would expect based on other systems using the same fileshare - usually within 10 seconds everything is fine. On OSMC / Vero it can be minutes of just feeling frozen. Then, once the disks are up its fine as you would expect.

Is there any advanced options / timeouts that can be tuned to make it feel more like a slight pause while disks spin up?

[fzinken]

@richjjoh

This is mounted on the Vero using NFS via FSTAB, mounted into a dir within /mnt.

Could try autofs

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions. First install the autofs package sudo apt-get install autofs If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot. For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…

[richjjoh]

Changed my FSTAB slightly, and moved away from NFS.

File

‘/home/osmc/.smbcredentials’

contains (replace X with valid credentials)

username=X
password=X

and then set so only root can read/write

chmod 600 /home/osmc/.smbcredentials

Updated my FSTAB with the following (replacing NAS_NAME, DIRECTORY_NAME, MOUND_DIRECTORY as needed).

//NAS_NAME/DIRECTORY_NAME /mnt/MOUNT_DIRECTORY cifs x-systemd.automount,noauto,rw,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,file_mode=0770,dir_mode=0770,vers=3.0 0 0

Now seems to be working far more reliably.

[sam_nazarko]

Glad to hear this.