Large copy of files to Shared destroy the box

Hello there!

I have a lots of problems when copy a 652 file folder to the shared folder, the PirateBox become unstable in my MR3040...

Any ideas?

Cheers!

Marcelo from Argentina

Hi,
Can you explain what "unstable" is?
Are all files in one folder?
Is the minidlna running?

best regards Matthias

Hello There!!!

Here Is what I do:

I put the pendrive in my laptop, and just paste a folder (600+ files) into the Shared folder. Tried from Win10, Win7 and Mint.

Then plug the pendrive into the MR3040, and some random happens, some devices cannot see the board, DHCP stop responding after a while, and it ends with nothing working.

If I upload the files using the "upload" button, none of this happend and the box keeps working fine.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

Marcelo from Argentina

Hi,
do you run minidlna for those files? If yes, this maybe one reason for the issues you run into.
Another reason can be the cleanup procedure we perform during boot. We clean some 0Byte files and files named tmpDroopy. In fact, while this happens, droopy should not be ready yet:

This is the section

     if [ "$DROOPY_ENABLED" = "yes" ] ; then
         #Start here the PirateBox-Parts droopy i.e.        
     echo "Starting droopy..."
         find  $UPLOADFOLDER/ -iname tmp\* -exec rm {} \;
         #Delete 0 Byte Files
         delete_empty.sh  $UPLOADFOLDER

         DROOPY_USER=""
         if [ "$DROOPY_USE_USER" = "yes" ] ; then
             DROOPY_USER=" -c $LIGHTTPD_USER:$LIGHTTPD_GROUP "
         fi
         DROOPY_DO_CHMOD=""
         test -n "$DROOPY_CHMOD" && DROOPY_DO_CHMOD="--chmod $DROOPY_CHMOD"
         start-stop-daemon $DROOPY_USER  -m -S -b  -p $PIDFILE_DROOPY -x $PIRATEBOX/bin/droopy -- -d "$UPLOADFOLDER"  -m "$DROOPY_TXT" $DROOPY_DO_CHMOD $DROOPY_USERDIR  $DROOPY_PORT 
         echo  $?
       fi

If you comment

         find  $UPLOADFOLDER/ -iname tmp\* -exec rm {} \;
         #Delete 0 Byte Files
         delete_empty.sh  $UPLOADFOLDER

,
it might help.

The next analysis needs much more output from your box... see Technical summary

best regards Matthias

Got it! I just a combo of uploading files and creating folders via ssh, way more stable and didn't have any problem now.

Thank you!