Any docs for union?

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Is there any guide or docs for union? The official docs are very unclear and are missing a lot of information. No clue what those policies mean. How can I mount a union remote? Can I mount it with systemd just like mergerfs? Can the same options be used like "vfs cache mode" and "buffer size" for example. I don't understand what the cache time does. Just one sentence doesn't cover it. What is path preserving polices?

Any guide or anything to get me started would be greatly appreciated.

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same as any remote. rclone mount remote: /path/to/mountdir

yes, this is a good template https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts/blob/master/systemd/rclone-drive.service

yes

are two rclone caches, here is a summary i wrote up
https://forum.rclone.org/t/status-about-using-rclone-for-music-storage-playback-in-2021-access-times-improved/27648/34

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Okay thank you very much. What do I set as upstream? Is it the remote followed by mount folder??

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i do not use union remotes

yes, as per the example i shared.

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Explain what you want to achieve, and I'll have a go at making a configuration with you.

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I want to mount my google drive rclone crypt remote with union.

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There's no reason to use a union for mounting a single drive.

Just mount the single remote.

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Okay. With mergerfs? I thought union was a replacement of mergerfs?

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I'm not sure why you'd use mergerfs or union for mounting a single item. A union or mergerfs is generally for using more than one remote/mount to combine them based on a policy.

So what are you trying to do is the question? If it is

There's no reason to use union or mergerfs as it's a single remote. Just mount it.

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I have been running rclone with mergerfs before so I can write files to a local folder and access the cloud files in the same folder. What approach would you recommend then?

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Share your mergerfs setup if you'd like to replace it with union as that is what @ncw is asking for.

I'd just use mergerfs but you can choose what you'd like.

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The problem is, Before I mounted the rclone mergerfs on top of a zfs pool with a different linux distro. Now I have 2 ssd's merged with mergerfs and on top of that I would like to mount the rclone mount. If I do that I cannot access my folder with a different user than root.

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If you share what you are doing / commands / configuration, we can help.

I can't help if you just tell me it's broken without specifics.

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Okay I will. At work right now. Will do tonight.

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Okay here we go.

These are the mount options I am using for the two ssd's merged together:

/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-2dfbcba7-0867-4309-823c-fa914e790156:/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-47cfc98d-01ab-4fcb-b219-87ebfbbfc2d2  /srv/mergerfs/pool       fuse.mergerfs   category.create=epmfs,minfreespace=4G,fsname=pool:4faaf8e9-fae7-49d3-9313-f7ac88c2349f,defaults,allow_other,use_ino,cache.files=partial,dropcacheonclose=true,x-systemd.requires=/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-2dfbcba7-0867-4309-823c-fa914e790156,x-systemd.requires=/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-47cfc98d-01ab-4fcb-b219-87ebfbbfc2d2      0 0

This is my one of my systemd's:

[Unit]
Description=Gmedia RClone Mount Service
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount \
  --config=/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf \
  --log-level=INFO \
  --log-file=/srv/mergerfs/pool/config/rclone/logs/rclone-mount.log \
  --user-agent=shawn \
  --umask=007 \
  --gid=100 \
  --uid=1000 \
  --allow-other \
  --timeout=1h \
  --poll-interval=15s \
  --tpslimit 10 \
  --buffer-size=512M \
  --dir-cache-time=1000h \
  --cache-dir=/srv/mergerfs/pool/config/rclone/cache/gmedia \
  --vfs-cache-mode=full \
  --vfs-cache-max-size=150G \
  --vfs-cache-max-age=1000h \
  --use-mmap \
  --vfs-fast-fingerprint \
  gdrive-media-crypt: /srv/mergerfs/pool/gmedia-cloud
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /srv/mergerfs/pool/gmedia-cloud
Restart=on-abort
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=60s
StartLimitBurst=3

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

And this is the other one:

[Unit]
Description=Gmedia MergerFS Mount
Requires=gmedia.service
After=gmedia.service

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mergerfs /srv/mergerfs/pool/gmedia-local:/srv/mergerfs/pool/gmedia-cloud /srv/mergerfs/pool/gmedia -o rw,nonempty,use_ino,allow_other,func.getattr=newest,category.action=all,category.create=ff,cache.files=auto-full,dropcacheonclose=true
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /srv/mergerfs/pool/gmedia
KillMode=none
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I am running docker containers like plex with user 1000 and group 100. Just like the rclone mount. But for some reason I can't access the folder from inside plex.

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Then we'd have to see your docker configuration there as if you can't see it from inside the docker, the docker setup is the next issue.

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plex:
    image: linuxserver/plex:latest
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=100
      - VERSION=public
    volumes:
      - /config/plex:/config
      - /data:/data
      - /transcode:/config
    restart: unless-stopped

/config and /data are symlinks

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Doesn't seem you have the other mounts visible to the docker as I don't see

in the docker setup.

My plex docker is setup to access my rclone mounts:

  plex:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: host
    devices:
     - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
    privileged: true
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - VERSION=docker
      - TZ=America/New_York
    volumes:
      - /opt/docker/data/plex:/config
      - /media/Movies:/media/Movies
      - /media/TV:/media/TV
    restart: unless-stopped
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/srv/mergerfs/pool/gmedia is the same as /data it's a symlink

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