Installation on Linux - NFS music mounted readonly

[swests]

Hi there

Thought I'd give netjukebox a quick go but have hit a small issue.

Setup
netjukebox host : Ubuntu
media : mounted from NFS share off another Ubuntu server - NFS share mounted read-only

Get the mysql, etc stuff sorted all ok but the library won't update - I got the following message:

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Can't write file:
/srv/mp3/iTunes Music/ZZ Top/Eliminator/d2jzdf30qo.id

    * Check file/directory permission

(Yes I know ZZ Top - no comments please )
I'm guessing that this is because netjukebox is trying to write to a read-only mount.

So, my questions are
- what is it trying to write?
- can I force these files elsewhere?
- am I stuffed?

I'm going to dig through the code but guess this may be quicker!

Thanks in advance!

[swests]

Ok - update...

Can't see why there is a need to write to the source directory so I've commented out lines 1052 and 1053 in update.php.

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if (file_put_contents($dir . $album_id . '.id', '') === false)
		message(__FILE__, __LINE__, 'error', '[b]Can\'t write file:[/b][br]' . $dir . $album_id . '.id[list][*]Check file/directory permission[/list]');

The update is running now (on my whole library - I forgot to alter the config for a subset!) and i'm sure may trip up at some other point, but so far so good.

Scanning the code I suspect it will fail in the image management code, but lets see...

[wbartels]

- what is it trying to write?

It is trying to write an empty file

- can I force these files elsewhere?

No, because it writes a unique id to recognize an album even when renaming a directory. So the netjukebox statistics will still work after renaming an directory. Also the play, stream, download etc command will still be the same after renaming a directory.

PS
The files will be recognized by the same id in combination with a very short hash of that file.

[swests]

It is trying to write an empty file

Ok.

- can I force these files elsewhere?

No, because it writes a unique id to recognize an album even when renaming a directory. So the netjukebox statistics will still work after renaming an directory. Also the play, stream, download etc command will still be the same after renaming a directory.

PS
The files will be recognized by the same id in combination with a very short hash of that file.

So, by making the changes I have, I don't get these id files, but that's only a problem if directories get moves around. That's not an issue with my setup. Lots of other apps reference the files, so changing or moving directories would cause a real issue...

[wbartels]

So, by making the changes I have, I don't get these id files, but that's only a problem if directories get moves around. That's not an issue with my setup. Lots of other apps reference the files, so changing or moving directories would cause a real issue...

Almost everything is based on the id.
So don't delete the id creation part of the code!
For example these thing don't work properly without the id:

• Transcode cache
• Favorites
• Statistics
• Share album

[swests]

ah! erm.... ok then.

[idh2012]

Just registered to say this need to write to my music repository is a no go situation.

Netjukebox might have been good but I'm going elsewhere.

First and final post.

[drewsky]

New to netjukebox, and immediately after installing it for the first time, I stumbled into this same situation, and like the OP, I too think this is a deal-breaker. Too bad... I hope that the dev team will re-think this approach in the future.

ETA: I meant the poster before me, not the OP.

[wbartels]

Sorry, read only is not going to happen!
See: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=507#p1760