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Mounting a s3ql file system to the S3 compatible file system at Softlayer on an Ubuntu 16 Xenial VSI
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Mounting a s3ql file system to the S3 compatible file system at Softlayer on an Ubuntu 16 Xenial VSI | |
apt install s3ql | |
nano /etc/s3ql.authinfo | |
[softlayer-s3] | |
backend-login: somelogin | |
backend-password: thatreallybigkeything | |
storage-url: s3c://s3-api.us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com | |
chmod 600 /etc/s3ql.authinfo | |
mkfs.s3ql --force --plain --cachedir=/var/cache/s3ql/mounthing/ --authfile=/etc/s3ql.authinfo s3c://s3-api.us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com/mounthing | |
mkdir /mnt/mounthing | |
chown 777 /mnt/mounthing | |
/etc/systemd/system/s3ql-mounthing.service | |
[Unit] | |
Description=mount s3ql mounthing filesystem | |
Wants=network-online.target | |
After=network-online.target | |
Conflicts=shutdown.target | |
[Service] | |
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mount.s3ql --fg --log=/var/log/s3ql/mounthing.log --cachedir=/var/cache/s3ql/mounthing/ --authfile=/etc/s3ql.authinfo --cachesize=976563 --allow-other --compress=none s3c://s3-api.us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com/mounthing /mnt/mounthing | |
ExecStop=/usr/bin/umount.s3ql /mnt/mounthing | |
TimeoutStopSec=infinity | |
[Install] | |
WantedBy=multi-user.target | |
systemctl enable s3ql-mounthing | |
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This did not work for me currently (Ubuntu 20.04, s3ql 3.8.0) as the unmounting was immediatly killed and the fs corrupted. It just needs a small fix to make it work by adding
Type=notify
to[Service]
and the (new?)--systemd
flag to the mount command.