The Alibaba cloud disk is connected to the local disk of Feiniu NAS, and the TV directly broadcasts 4K, and the results will be paid after one month.

Finished last month Storage pool cleanup In that article, the 4T inventory came out to more than 400 gigabytes. I knew in my heart that it would not last for half a year - the photo library increased by sixty or seventy gigabytes a year, and the next 4K movie would be fifty or sixty gigabytes. My cousin woke me up with a word: Didn’t you use 2T of Alibaba Cloud Disk for nothing? You can just hang it on the NAS and use it as a local disk.

At first I thought this idea was a bit crooked: There are always two groups of people who play NAS and use network disks. I have also calculated the accounts of private cloud and public cloud before. Only after I started using it did I realize that network disk mounting has become very popular in recent years - the TV can directly play the 4K content in the network disk, and the NAS does not need to save a single byte. But after using it for a month, the pitfalls are real. It is not an exaggeration to persuade half of the people to quit.

Let’s first clearly distinguish the three roads: CloudDrive2, OpenList, strm each manage a section

Before taking action, I browsed Feiniu Forum and Enshan for two days, and found that there are actually three completely different approaches behind the term "network disk mounting". Check the number first and then take action.:

Tell me more about the origin of OpenList: The old tool AList was popular all over the Internet in the past few years, but the maintenance pace has been obviously slow in the past two years. The community forked OpenList and updated it, and the network disk driver followed up faster. Now it is basically recommended for new installations. Old users of AList do not need to rush to migrate. New users can start directly from OpenList.

My last choice was to connect CloudDrive2 to Alibaba Cloud for daily management. The strm set is not available - my film library is not big enough yet, and I am too lazy to build another layer of service.

How did I hang up?: After ten minutes of Docker, an extra disk appeared in the system.」

There is nothing to say about the deployment itself, it is just the standard Docker process. I have written about the basic concepts. Getting started with Feiniu Docker and one article Complete Docker Getting Started . This image cannot be found in Feiniu Application Center, so you have to pull it up in Docker yourself. There are two places where it is really easy to overturn.:

First, the CloudDrive2 container must be in privileged mode. It relies on FUSE to disguise the network disk as a disk. It cannot be started without privileges. The mount point is in the container by default /media/cloudnas , remember to map this path to the host, otherwise you won’t be able to see it in the file management if it is mounted.

Second, it writes the configuration inside the container by default. Once the container is deleted, all the network disk accounts logged in will be lost, and you have to scan the code and start again. First map a configuration directory to it. This is a common rule for all container deployments.

After getting up, go to the management page of the browser and scan the QR code to log in to the Alibaba cloud disk. An additional mounting volume immediately appears in Feiniu's file management, which contains my 2T network disk. The directory structure is exactly the same as the web version. TV is easier: The mount point will be shared with SMB. Add this path to Kodi, and the movies in the network disk can be played directly by clicking on them, as I wrote before Directly connect TV to NAS to play movies It's the same idea, but the disk is changed to the cloud.

Playback is the real test point: Is 4K okay? It depends on the 302 redirect and the equity package.

Here's a counter-intuitive fact: Mount the disk to play the network disk video, the data is actually Does not flow through NAS .

To put it bluntly, this mechanism: The TV asked the NAS "Give me this file", the NAS turned around and asked the network disk for the download address, and the network disk replied "The thing is in my CDN computer room, house number xxx, go get it yourself" - this step is a 302 redirect. The NAS only handed over a note during the whole process, and the really large files went straight from the network disk server to the TV. Therefore, the performance of the N100 is not a bottleneck at all. Whether it is stuck or not depends entirely on whether the network disk can speed it up for you.

I measured my body feeling for a month: The source code rate of 1080P online movies is generally around 8 MB. You can play it as you like, just drag the progress bar in two or three seconds to connect. ； The 4K original disk has a bit rate of 50 or 60 Mbps, depending on the mood of the network disk at the time - it can fly smoothly late at night, but it must circle around during the evening rush hour. The root of this "depending on your mood" is the hardest level: Alibaba Cloud Disk's third-party rights package.

In mid-2024, Alibaba Cloud Disk 6.0 will launch this "third-party application rights package". To put it bluntly, you use third-party tools such as CloudDrive2 and OpenList to mount it, and the rights and interests are calculated separately.: In mid-2024, Alibaba Cloud Disk 6.0 will launch the "Third-party Application Rights Package". To put it bluntly, you use third-party tools such as CloudDrive2 and OpenList to mount it, and the rights are calculated separately.:

If you don’t buy it, the third-party version has the highest standard definition and download speed limit. I have actually measured that a single thread is on the order of 100KB to 500KB per second, and when the player is turned on to 16 threads, it is about 9MB per second, which translates into a bandwidth of 72MB - 1080P is barely enough, and 4K is purely down to luck. If you buy it, you will be given high-speed access and high definition, but the quota will be calculated based on the flow rate. Once the quota is used up, it will return to its original state. Some people complained that after buying the rights package, the data volume dropped loudly. A 4K camera costs dozens of gigabytes. ； There are even worse complaints, saying that WebDAV is included in the promotion, but in fact WebDAV can only be downloaded but not uploaded.

My calculations are straightforward: The Baidu Party only offers 1080P dramas and documentaries, which is enough even if you don’t buy the rights package. ； The traffic quota of the 4K original disk party cannot last for a month. It is better to save the money to buy a hard drive. The speed of network disk is never for you, but for its own client.

The mounted disk is not a local disk. Do not point upwards to the downloader and Docker directories.

The moment it is mounted, it looks exactly like the local disk, but it is essentially a "borrowed" directory. There are three things you must not do.:

First, don’t point the download directory of qBittorrent to the mounting disk. The downloader is multi-threaded and uses the network disk upload interface. The rights package traffic is burned at double the speed, and it can easily trigger the risk control of the network disk. My downloader still writes to the local SSD, and chooses unpopular movie sources to transfer to the network disk. I still have this habit. Download machine article That's what he did here.

Second, do not put the data directory of the Docker container on the mounting disk. Things like the configuration of qB and the database of photo albums require local high-frequency random reading and writing. Once the network disk interface is shaken, the container will collapse for you to see. The mount disk only contains finished files that are "read more and write less".

Third, don't expect it to go into the storage pool. Ext4 and Btrfs manage local block devices, and the mounted disk is a guest to them. Snapshots, deduplication, and quotas cannot cover it. If you want to expand the capacity, plugging in a USB storage disk is more reliable. I will do that alone. Wrote actual tests .

Interfaces change as they come, and AList is a lesson learned from the past.

The key to this type of tool is not code, but policy. AList was very popular back then, but now maintenance has slowed down. ； Alibaba Cloud Disk has also tightened the third-party interface, and a lot of people's mounts will become invalid if they say they are invalid. If the network disk becomes distasteful to a third party, speed limits, protocol changes, and interface closures are all announced on paper, and you don’t even have a place to discuss them.

So I know the positioning of this mount disk very clearly.: An extension of the warehouse, not a replacement of the warehouse. Dramas that you will delete after watching them once, and unpopular movies that you have saved for spare time and put on the network disk ； Photos, work documents and other things that would hurt if you lost them, just stick to the 3-2-1 principle. Back up that article I wrote in the article that only a few small things that really need to be moved to a remote place are selected and put there. nut cloud That's what that article does.

Who is worth bothering with and who should be spared?

I will also give you a sequence of actions.: First, think clearly about what clarity you mainly focus on. Free users should try OpenList first. If web page management is troublesome, then use CloudDrive2. Buy the rights package as needed instead of hoarding it. How to back up important data? My current usage is to store about 200 unpopular movies in the mounting disk, directly click on Kodi on the TV, and leave the local 4T for photos and next month’s new movies - each of them does what they are good at, and the money and capacity are spent wisely.