Shared Storage backend

[Martin Gasser]

Hi
We habe two seafile Servers behind a loadbalancer, sharing storage backend with NFS.
What part of Seafile need to be on the shared storage, what needs to be isolated on each application server?

Thanks for any hints.
Martin

[JiaQiang Xu]

Are you using business edition? Open source edition doesn't support clustering.

[Martin Gasser]

Hello

Yes I do.

Meanwhile, I mounted three NFS Devices on /seafile-data/fs, seafile-data/commits and seafile-data/blocks.

Now I get the errors failed to commit block..... invalid cross-device links... in the seafile.log when uploading.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thank you.

[Lingtao Pan]

Why do you mount three devices? In my option, mount one device, and put seafile-data to this device should be OK.

[JiaQiang Xu]

Hi,

You should only put seafile-data/commits, seafile-data/fs and seafile-data/blocks and seafile-data/tmpfiles on NFS.

They should be on one device. The simplest way is to use symlinks for these 4 directories on each server running Seafile.

It looks like:

server 1:

seafile-data/commits --> /nfs/commits

seafile-data/fs --> /nfs/fs

seafile-data/blocks --> /nfs/blocks

seafile-data/tmpfiles --> /nfs/tmpfiles

server 2 is the same.

All other things in the seafile server directory should be server-specifice and should not be shared.

Hope this help. I'll add this info into the doc.

[JiaQiang Xu]

Hi,

I've updated the doc. You should find the link about configuring NFS in the "Backend Storage Settings" section.

A direct link is here: https://seacloud.cc/group/180/wiki/setup-seafile-cluster-with-nfs/

A minor correction to my previous answer. You should not put seafile-data/tmpfiles in NFS. 

[Jochen]

Hi,

I don't have a seafile Cluster, just a single server but I have moved seafile-data to a NFS share on my NAS. So, is everything mentioned above also important for me? Especially these two points:

- I don't use symlinks but have just moved seafile-data to /nfs/seafile-data. Could this be a problem (maybe for upgrades)?

- I have moved the whole seafile-data, not just the 3 mentioned subdirectories. Is this a problem?

Thanks and best regards,

Jochen

[Martin Gasser]

Thanks for this Info. We will setup like this.
Grüsse Martin

[JiaQiang Xu]

If you don't use cluster, you can just put the entire seafile-data folder in NFS.

[JiaQiang Xu]

If you don't use cluster, you can just put the entire seafile-data folder in NFS.

On Saturday, April 5, 2014 5:50:59 PM UTC+8, Jochen wrote:

[Jochen]

Thank you!