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

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.