Best mount settings for streaming ( Plex )

Philip_Konighofer · May 19, 2017, 11:54am

I use the following, which works quite well for me:

./plexdrive-linux-amd64 -v 3 -o allow_other,read_only -t /data/tmp --clear-chunk-max-size=100G --clear-chunk-age=24h --chunk-size=30M /mnt/gdrive02-crypt

Funjuju · May 19, 2017, 12:26pm

edit crontab file with ==> crontab -e and add a line like this

@reboot sleep 30 && /Path/to/Script//RebootMount.sh

This script must be executable and contains the command you normaly use to mount your drive
On cron execution always use absolute path to rclone :

/usr/sbin/rclone mount ACDMount: /path/to/library/Folder -param1 - param2 -param3 &

Philip_Konighofer · May 19, 2017, 12:30pm

Cron seems to be the wrong place. On debian based systems, use this more elegant hack:

/etc/rc.local (before the ‘exit 0’ line!)

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

nohup ./plexdrive-linux-amd64 -v 3 -o allow_other,read_only -t /data/tmp --clear-chunk-max-size=100G --clear-chunk-age=24h --chunk-size=30M /mnt/gdrive02-crypt &

exit 0

or go the most elegant and correct way, using a systemd service:

alneven · May 19, 2017, 8:05pm

hello @dweidenfeld,
is this normal??

[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Storing object 0B0fKJMA00CwzdWY3aTNnYjVQZkk in cache
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Deleting object 0B0fKJMA00CwzR2tNbXd4NUNoN1E
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Storing object 0B0fKJMA00CwzR2tNbXd4NUNoN1E in cache
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Deleting object 0B0fKJMA00CwzQThiUFcyY2pHVU0
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Storing object 0B0fKJMA00CwzQThiUFcyY2pHVU0 in cache
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Deleting object 0B0fKJMA00CwzR1N0ZEtRYVdpZ2s
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Storing object 0B0fKJMA00CwzR1N0ZEtRYVdpZ2s in cache
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Deleting object 0B0fKJMA00CwzMVdJMldzM2l5Rjg
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Storing object 0B0fKJMA00CwzMVdJMldzM2l5Rjg in cache
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Deleting object 0B0fKJMA00CwzekZ4V01WREpkMkU
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Storing object 0B0fKJMA00CwzekZ4V01WREpkMkU in cache
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Deleting object 0B0fKJMA00CwzRDdDQ0k4ZUI0OU0
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Storing object 0B0fKJMA00CwzRDdDQ0k4ZUI0OU0 in cache
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Deleting object 0B0fKJMA00CwzV2J0M2JfNTNVZG8
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Storing object 0B0fKJMA00CwzV2J0M2JfNTNVZG8 in cache
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Deleting object 0B0fKJMA00CwzUDZPYno5R3B1T1U
[PLEXDRIVE] [2017-05-19 21:52] DEBUG : Storing object 0B0fKJMA00CwzUDZPYno5R3B1T1U in cache

I’ve started it like this:

plexdrive -v 3 -o allow_other,read_only -t /home/plex/plextmp/ --clear-chunk-max-size=100G --clear-chunk-age=24h --chunk-size=30M /home/plex/ACD/.gdrive

my gdrive is encrypted with encFS
I’m just literally using plexdrive to exchange rclone for the mount (if I understood correctly) and if it’s mounted I can encfs the .gdrive folder into gdrive and unionfs with my “local” folder into media, and point PLEX to the /home/plex/ACD/media folder

(ACD is the folder, as I coming from the ACD setup)

UPDATE:
It’s normal

(if anyone else is having such strange messages)

It’s finished the cache
I have decrypted the drive with encfs

Philip_Konighofer · May 19, 2017, 8:21pm

remove the debug switch ‘-v 3’ if you wan’t it to be less communicative.

Thomas_Heier · May 20, 2017, 1:54am

Thank You. Works perfect.

sixhoursago · May 20, 2017, 11:06pm

I’ve just kicked off the First cache build process and it looks like it may take many hours. (Very large library.)

Will the cache build process run each time plexdrive is started? Does it run faster after the initial build?

Ajki · May 21, 2017, 7:41am

You should point --config=/dev/shm/ ( copy json files from default one inside ) and it will be built within 10 minutes.
Dont forget to move cache file back to default location and remove config flag.

p.s. Once its built, updates are very fast.

IhToN · May 21, 2017, 5:17pm

I’ve run the first plexdrive and after some hours it finished “caching” my whole GDrive.
Also I’ve created the encripted mount and it is working through ssh but once I try to play any files on plex it stays loading forever.
Plexdrive CMD = /usr/local/bin/plexdrive -v 2 -o allow_other,read_only -t /data/tmp --clear-chunk-max-size=100G --clear-chunk-age=24h --chunk-size=30M /home/plex
Encripted CMD = /usr/sbin/rclone mount --allow-other --allow-non-empty --max-read-ahead 30G --checkers 16 --acd-templink-threshold 0 --quiet --stats 0 secret: /home/gdrive

sixhoursago · May 21, 2017, 5:26pm

Hi @IhToN
I’m only just getting started with Plexdrive myself, but I’m not sure we need all of the extra flags in our rclone mount commands. The guide published at https://github.com/dweidenfeld/plexdrive/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md suggests using only the “–allow-other” flag.

The “–acd-templink-threshold 0” flag you’ve got set is specifically intended for Amazon Cloud Drive. So that could be causing a problem of some sort.

IhToN · May 21, 2017, 6:19pm

The Encrypted command is the same I’ve been using before migrating to plexdrive.

alneven · May 21, 2017, 6:38pm

what encryption do you use?
crypt from rclone?

where do you point plex for its library?
/home/gdrive ?

what folders are in /home/plex for you?

IhToN · May 21, 2017, 6:59pm

I’m using rclone encryption.

/home/plex shows the whole Google Drive folder (with the encrypted folder insied)
/home/gdrive points to /home/plex/encryptedfoldername

alneven · May 21, 2017, 7:02pm

rclone should be done local, you have to change a few things:

github.com

dweidenfeld/plexdrive/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md

# Tutorial for creating/mounting an encrypted rclone volume

## Install the dependencies
You have to install fuse on your system to run plexdrive/rclone. Please check your system on how to install fuse. 
Normally you can use:
```
apt-get install fuse
```

## Mounting the unencrypted volume with plexdrive
1. Then you should download the newest release from the [GitHub release page](https://github.com/dweidenfeld/plexdrive/releases).
2. Create your own client id and client secret (see [https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id](https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id)).
3. Create a systemd startup script for automatic startup on boot
```
# /etc/systemd/system/plexdrive.service

[Unit]
Description=Plexdrive
AssertPathIsDirectory=/mnt/plexdrive
After=network-online.target

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IhToN · May 21, 2017, 7:35pm

Folders:

root@ns328963:~# cd /home/
root@ns328963:/home# ls
downloads  gdrive  nextcloud  plex  seedbox
root@ns328963:/home# cd plex
root@ns328963:/home/plex# ls
Biblioteca Calibre  Getting started  mqkb17v8idme414nns29od6j5k  MultiMedia
root@ns328963:/home/plex# cd ..
root@ns328963:/home# cd gdrive/
root@ns328963:/home/gdrive# ls
MultiMedia

Plexdrive.service: https://gyazo.com/c38f52155257f19db91b676249835b6a
Multimedia.service (encrypted rclone): https://gyazo.com/0adca6bebf52c9424ced9cb55664119c

DF command

root@ns328963:/home# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        20G  7.1G   12G  40% /
devtmpfs        2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev
tmpfs           2.0G   12K  2.0G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           2.0G   29M  1.9G   2% /run
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3       1.8T   41G  1.7T   3% /home
secret:         1.0P     0  1.0P   0% /home/gdrive

I’ve followed that guide and it mounts well, it’s just that it seems that Plex can’t access the files.

sixhoursago · May 22, 2017, 2:36am

Thank you, @Ajki, for the pointer to use /dev/shm/ as an intermediate config location for the initial cache build. It indeed went much faster, finishing in 16 minutes. Then I moved the files from there to the default config directory and ran Plexdrive again. The update was very fast, as you’d predicted.

misury · May 22, 2017, 3:13am

Okay, I’ve got to ask… I assume everyone is using Google for Business with 5 accounts to get the unlimited storage? Who do you recommend then for the VPS/Dedicated server side of things? To me it seems you must have a provider with unmetered bandwidth? Thanks for any replies. I’m really looking to do this myself, but I can’t seem to actually “find” all the puzzle pieces.

Ajki · May 22, 2017, 4:51am

I made a script to rebuild cache in memory and move it back to default location.
It takes 176 seconds for my 64GB Library

github.com

ajkis/scripts/blob/master/plexdrive/plexdrive-rebuildcache.sh

#!/bin/bash
## plexdrive-rebuildcache.sh (chmod a+x plexdrive-rebuildcache.sh)
## The function of this script is rebuild cache with paralel process in memory and then move it to default location.
## NOTE: This will speed up process significantly as building full cache on hard disk may take hours.
##
## More scripts at: https://github.com/ajkis/scripts
## If you find script useful feel free to buy me a beer at https://paypal.me/ajki

TIMESTAMP=`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S`
LOGFILE="/home/plex/logs/plexdrive-rebuildcache.log"
PLEXDRIVEEXEC=/usr/bin/plexdrive # Set path to plexdrive executable
PLEXDRIVEMNT=/mnt/plexdrive # Set path to plexdrive mount
PLEXDRIVECONF=~/.plexdrive # Set location of your plexdrive config or leave default
PLEXDRIVEMOUNTCMD="/home/plex/scripts/mountplexdrive" # Set path to your plexdrive mount script. If you use systemd replace it with "sudo systemctl plexdrive.service start"
PLEXDRIVETMPMNT=/mnt/tmp #Make sure you have read/write permissions in /mnt

echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") plexdrive rebuild cache started" | tee -a $LOGFILE


if [[ ! -d $PLEXDRIVETMPMNT ]]; then

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p.s. You can specify the list of commands what to stop before it starts eg stop plex radarr sonarr etc…

KaMoS · May 22, 2017, 10:58am

Thanks for this. May I ask, why is this script necessary? Why would you need to rebuild the cache regularly? Surely once it’s built it shouldn’t be need again or done regularly.

4everfun · May 22, 2017, 11:03am

I think you mean 64TB, since my library of 15TB took nearly the same time. Fantastic idea! Before your script it could take like 10hours+