Trying to add an sshfs mounted location as a regular file system volume type in Cloudron

[makemrproper]

Sounds like the case is identical, yes :).

Great workaround! I will try it.

Solving it at the hypervisor level is not any better than directly on the cloudron vm. There is no way to share a folder to a vm. Only nfs, cifs, sshfs or direct block device.

The reason is that our phones are growing, and at current I need to sync 5x family members phones at 1tb. Not insane anounts of course, but way beyond the m2.ssd cloudron is running on.

[robi]

@makemrproper said in Trying to add an sshfs mounted location as a regular file system volume type in Cloudron:

or direct block device

https://linbit.com/drbd/ is the gold standard.

[andreasdueren]

@makemrproper I'm sorry could you summarize or even give step-by-step instructions on what you ended up doing?

[joseph]

@makemrproper said in Trying to add an sshfs mounted location as a regular file system volume type in Cloudron:

When trying to I am trying to add the /mnt/folder to Cloudron as a filesystem volume type, I am getting this error: hostPath must be a realpath without symlinks

Just tested this and this works fine here. Is /mnt/folder a symlink? I have a fstab line to mount a sshfs into /mnt/folder . And then I just added Filesystem mount type in Volumes view.

[msbt]

Also getting that message, but on a different use-case. I'm trying to add a (sftp) rclone mount to Cloudron. Mounting and browsing works fine, but when trying to add it as a volume, it says hostPath must be a realpath without symlinks. Is that not supported?

[joseph]

Didn't get an answer to my earlier question. Is it a symlink? You can't add symlinks.

Can you try node -e "fs.realpathSync('/the/path')" ? This function is failing or returning something other than the path you are adding for some reason.

[msbt]

Can only speak for my issue, not a symlink:

/mnt# ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Jun  9 09:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 17 11:10 ..
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root    0 Jun  9 09:22 media
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Dec 17 11:31 volumes

Your command doesn't fail, but doesn't give any output either.

[joseph]

@msbt said in Trying to add an sshfs mounted location as a regular file system volume type in Cloudron:

Your command doesn't fail, but doesn't give any output either.

My bad... Can you try like this:

root@my:/mnt# node -e "console.log(fs.realpathSync('/mnt/folder'))"
/mnt/folder

[msbt]

@joseph sure:

/mnt# node -e "console.log(fs.realpathSync('/mnt/media'))"
/mnt/media

[joseph]

@msbt you are trying to add /mnt/media in the Volumes view ? I cannot see why https://git.cloudron.io/platform/box/-/blob/master/src/volumes.js?ref_type=heads#L57 will fail . That's where the error message comes from. If you are ok debugging a bit, just put some console.log in that function and systemctl restart box.

[msbt]

@joseph happy to, can you maybe enable chat so we can do that 1:1?

[joseph]

@msbt can you instead write to me at support@cloudron.io please? Will debug it right away.

[msbt]

My issue is resolved, adding a --allow-other parameter to the mount solved it, thanks @girish and @joseph