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I have a question, why did you choose to mount /var/samba/public on /home/storage instead of making just a symlink?
This is a little annoing when you have to move a big file, becouse it transmits it all instead of just moving (for example mv /home/myhome/verybigfile.avi /home/storage/media/movies takes a long time ).

Hi msx,

The main reason that we do a bind mount of the storage directory instead of a symlink is to be able to give a uniform apearance when accessing Bubba. Symlinks work very bad when using samba,ftp or the webbased filemanager to access bubba.

We are aware of the copying being very ineffective when doing it across this border. But its a tradeoff with usability.

If you do the move on the commandline dont do it to /home/storage but instead directly to the real path. Ie mv /home/myhome/verybigfile.avi /var/samba/public/media/movies this transfer will be instant.

/Tor