FOG Images Storage Location

[MrsPotter]

Hi,

I’d like to store some of my images on one drive, and other images on another drive. Is this possible? It seems FOG wants the images to be in /images.

I’ve read the following bits on how to change it, but am having trouble.

[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Change_NFS_location[/url]
[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Moving_your_images_directory/Adding_Storage_to_the_Images_directory[/url]
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-change-default-image-store-location.391/[/url]
[url]http://www.topgearit.net/index.php?title=Change_FOG_Image_Storage_Location[/url]

One of the issues I’m having is that the file: [FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#000000]/var/www/fog/commons/config.php does not exist in my Debian 7 install.[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#000000]Even if it had existed, it seems that one can only change [/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=#000000]“SPACE_DEFAULT_STORAGE” and not add an additional location. So even if I could move the storage location, I cannot add one. [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]Ideally I’d like to add another local StorageNode in the web interface. Such that I have:[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]DefaultMember1 --> /images/drive1[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]DefaultMember2 --> /images/drive2[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]Now one could assign the respective images to a respective StorageNode.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]Is this a possible scenario?[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]If I try this I get a message saying “Permission denied cannot mount /images/drive1 on /images”. However, both drives do have the .mntcheck file and are chmod -777 with owner root. I essentially copied the contents of /images to /images/drive1|2 keeping the permissions. I’ve altered the /etc/export as recommended, but cannot locate the config.php “SPACE_DEFAULT_STORAGE”.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]FOG Ver. 1.2.0[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]Debian 7[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]Thanks,[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]MrsPotter.[/COLOR]

[Berend de Boer]

The first link is severely outdated, have marked it as such.

[Berend de Boer]

I’m not sure I can see your problem though, why can’t you add a new storage node or change an existing storage node? The /images path is not hard-coded, simply a setting of the default storage node.

[Tom Elliott]

In 1.1.2 we moved the config.php to ${webroot}/fog/lib/fog/Config.class.php. This, as Berend states, doesn’t matter though. The setting that is called was used only for the freespace (dashboard) and even that wasn’t necessarily correct.

${webroot} is typically /var/www for debian based systems and /var/www/html for redhat based systems.

The NFS needs to be updated to reflect your real storage location.

This file is usually located at: /etc/exports

Once you make the edits you need, you can reload the exports with:
[code]exportfs -a[/code]

OR

For Debian/Ubuntu based systems
[code]service nfs-kernel-server restart[/code]

For Redhat Based systems
[code]service nfs restart[/code]

Again, as Berend states, this is a not a hardcoded thing in at least 1.1.2 and higher and is a database setting that you can edit (with the exception of the /etc/exports file) from the FOG Web GUI.

[Berend de Boer]

OK, I think I get it, you want to use two storage nodes, both basically the same in all respects, except the image path. Try duplicating your default one exactly, except the image path.

/etc/exports isn’t updated, so yes, you would have to change that. Probably you would need two entries per image path I think, the dev subpath for uploads, and the other read-only for downloads. So simply copy the existing entries and adapt for your new path. Make sure your /images/drive1 has a dev subdirectory.

After editing exports reload the daemon: exportfs -ra

Hopefully this gets you going somewhere.

[Wayne Workman]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 44086, member: 7271”]

Again, as Berend states, this is a not a hardcoded thing in at least 1.1.2 and higher and is a database setting that you can edit (with the exception of the /etc/exports file) from the FOG Web GUI.[/quote]

What’s the issue with the Web GUI not changing the /etc/exports file?

Are there complications, or have you just not tackled this yet?

[Tom Elliott]

I have not tackled this.

[Wayne Workman]

Damn that was fast, Tom.

[Tom Elliott]

It’s what I do.

[MrsPotter]

Cool got it working! Sorry for the trouble, indeed I forgot to: [FONT=Consolas]service nfs-kernel-server restart[/FONT]

[COLOR=#000000]But, after I read the above links I thought there might be more to it. This was not the case. I can now assign images to any of the two locations without trouble.[/COLOR]