Crazy Macer Life

i wrote an earlier post about this but i think i need to revamp it. most of it is the same. install rclone and run through rclone config. the problem i was having was with it auto mounting when jails start. i was unable to find a solution for this so i just did it the sketchy way and added it as a crontab for the root user. what is important here is that rclone MUST be linked (ln -s) to /usr/local/bin/rclonefs in order to function in the fstab. this is hard coded in rclone where it detects that it is being run using the command ‘rclonefs’ and turns itself into a mount helper. weird, but it is what it is. maybe some day there will be a freebsd mount.cifs but until then this is what we have.

azazil# cat /etc/fstab 

server:/smbmount /mnt/server/smbmount fusefs.rclone allow_other,rw,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/rclonefs,args2env,vfs_cache_mode=off,config=/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf,uid=<number of user>,gid=<number of group>,cache_dir=/var/cache/rclone 0 0

azazil# crontab -l

@reboot /sbin/mount /mnt/server/smbmount

azazil# df -h
Filesystem                                   Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
platters/bastille/jails/azazil/root           25T    1.9G     25T     0%    /
/usr/local/bastille/releases/15.0-RELEASE     25T    487M     25T     0%    /.bastille
devfs                                        1.0K      0B    1.0K     0%    /dev
fdescfs                                      1.0K      0B    1.0K     0%    /var/run/samba4/fd
server:smbmount                               71T     48T     24T    67%    /mnt/server/smbmount

this is assuming that you have a smb share using samba or anything else that supports it up and running and functional. i’ll try to find a cleaner way than using crontab later. for now this gives me what i need.