Nethserver 8 & samba shares location

[uncle_numpty (k w)]

Hi,

This is going to sound like a stupid question…

But in Nethserver 8, how can i define the default locations/disks for samba shares, this was an option in version 7 but for the life of me i can’t find it in version 8.

Any help appreciated.

Karl

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

We don’t have a preferred method yet. Some approaches were discussed in this thread:

NS8 Add storage path setting like in minio to other apps

Well I digged Podman documentation and I found a recipe that should work for any rootless module, more or less. I assume the disk where we want to store the module data has been already formatted, configured in /etc/fstab and mounted on /mnt/disk00 In general, after installation (creation) module instances are in a stopped state. They require an additional configuration step to start. In this state they still have not created the volumes where persistent data is stored. In this case, it is po…

As an alternative, the disk could be mounted under a volume _data/ path, but I prefer the previous approach because it preserves^[1] disk data if the module is removed and doesn’t rely on Podman’s default volume path.

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1. Adding --one-file-system argument to rm -rf of remove-module action could be a future improvement. ↩︎

[uncle_numpty (k w)]

Thanks for the info Davide.

Seems a bit of an oversight for this not to have been included in the setup for Samba shares though.

E.G you create a hardware server with a small NVME for the OS and large redundant Drives for data, but shares will only be created on the original installation target drive.

Anyhoo thanks for the heads up.

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

@uncle_numpty

create a hardware server with a small NVME for the OS and large redundant Drives for data

What you’ve described is a reasonable scenario, and we’ll work on improving NS8 to address it.

[trentatre (Mario)]

Hi,
I fully support the suggestion of @uncle_numpty , so we can put the small actually needed data shares on fast OS-disk or separate SSD, and the very large archieved data-stores on slower but much bigger spinners, instead of using separate NAS.
By the way (haven’t took a deeper look until now), how to put the maildir on a separate larger disk ?
Greetings, Mario

[Fernando_Rogerio]

@davidep
First of all, thanks for all the work done on Nethserver 8.

I did a test and saw that Samba stores the shared folder in /home and it is considered good practice to point the home folder to a dedicated partition. Is there any advice on pointing the home folder to a disk dedicated to Samba? That would solve my problem.

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

Hi Fernando, welcome to our community!

We are still working on improving support for different storage
configurations tailored to specific tasks. Here’s what we currently have:

• A single small, fast disk for everything, which works well for test and
  small installations.
• A small, fast root disk with /home mounted on a separate small and
  fast disk. Rootless modules still require a fast disk to read container
  images, especially during service startups. You can find a script in the
  manual to help move /home to a new disk
  here.

In the coming weeks, we plan to add support for a third scenario: allowing each volume of every module instance to be mounted to a custom location. This would accommodate large, slower disks or even remote filesystems.