CIFS mount for OMERO.fs

[thomazeau]

Hi,
A question about OMERO.fs
We plan to test OMERO Dropbox for automatic files import ... but the filesystem which OMERO.fs will watch is a CIFS share (on a storage bay) mounted on the Linux Omero Server.
In OMERO.fs documentation, we have seen : 'Watching a network-attached share (NAS) is strictly not supported'

Is a CIFS mount on a Linux Omero Server supported or considered like a network-attached share (NAS) ?
If it's not supported, is there another solution to watch a distant filesystem with OMERO Dropbox ?

Thanks in advance
Jacques

[cblackburn]

Hi Jacques,

Unfortunately the OMERO.fs DropBox system can only monitor the local file system as they are built on the native file system monitors for the relevant OS.

Colin

[ehrenfeu]

Hi Jaques,

what about doing it the other way round, for example either attaching the storage physically to the machine running OMERO or (if that's not possible) by providing the storage via iSCSI or similar to the OMERO server. In this case you'd be able to "run" the filesystem directly on the machine hosting OMERO and thus will be able to use the filesystem monitoring services as well...

Cheers,
Niko

[jmoore]

Attaching the storage physically should of course work. Another option which fewer people have tried is launching the dropbox process on a second system. If you'd like to attempt this, I can provide instructions, but it may require dealing with various firewall and configuration issues.

Cheers,
~Josh

[thomazeau]

thank you for the answers and sorry for the delay.
Finaly, we'll use DropBox as a temporary folder for imports, and delete all files periodically.
So we don't need too much space an we'll use internal disk.
Jacques