[Cialug] overlay mounts

David Champion dchamp1337 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 13:39:23 CST 2016


How "realtime" do you need it to be? Did a google search, found rclone that
would give you something like rsync for cloud drives.

http://rclone.org/

-dc

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:35 PM, <murraymckee at wellsfargo.com> wrote:

> How about have the cron job do the file move, unmount, and remount all at
> one time?  Then there would be even less time that the cloud directory
> files would be unavailable.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of Andrew Denner
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 1:21 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] overlay mounts
>
> A quick dirty low hanging fruit solution until a better one is found would
> be to set up a cron job to check if a folder or file is there, and if not
> it means things have become unmounted and if so then remount things?
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Jim Cole <jrcole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Let me explain what I'm doing. I'd like to see if you have any
> suggestions.
> >
> > I have a working overlay mount.
> >
> > Directory A is Upper
> > Directory B is Lower
> > Directory C is Overlay of A+B (r/w but files get written to A)
> >
> > That all works as expected.
> >
> > What I want to do is move the files from A to B at a later point. I
> > can do this but then the mount becomes undefined and goes to heck. I
> > can correct this by unmounting and remounting it.
> >
> > Does anyone know of another union filesystem that would let me do that
> > and not have to do unmount/remount?
> >
> > Here's the reason for all of this. Amazon Cloud Drive. I picked up the
> > $5/year of unlimited storage. I have it mounted on my linux box via
> > acd_cli. It's working well. The issue is that I cant write directly to
> > it as its unstable, I need to use the upload utility in acd_cli. So
> > Data goes to a local store(Directory A above) until I run the upload
> > and move it to ACD(Directory B) above and Directory C is what everyone
> > sees.
> >
> > I have tried unionfs fuse mount and overlayfs thats built into the
> > kernel..both give me issues.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Jim
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