Kodi NFS Shares

mediamogul

I've been testing Kodi in RetroPie over the weekend to see if it could offer the same amenities found in stand-alone distributioins such as OSMC and OpenElec. After kicking the tires for a few days, it seems that the ability to access NFS shares is the only thing that I've personally noticed as missing. I thought perhaps @Rascas might be able to offer a little insight here, but of course help from any direction is always welcome.

Rascas

@mediamogul Mines (nfs shares) are defined and mounted at boot via /etc/fstab.
Than it is just a location for programs, like for example /media/pi/nas/movies etc.

mediamogul

@Rascas

That works for me. Just for future reference, does this implementation of Kodi allow for any similar network protocols like SMB, or is system mounting necessary all the way around?

Rascas

Sambs shares works without mounting. NFS i think i never tried without mounting.

BuZz

It is much more efficient to use kernel cifs driver over the kodi libsmbclient though (less cpu / more throughput) (mount -t cifs -o username=whatever,password=whatever //server/share /mountpoint)

mediamogul

@Rascas, @BuZz

Throughput is an issue in my house for a number of reasons, so the more efficient the better. Thanks to both of you for your help. Since we're directly talking about Kodi here, I want to throw out an extra thanks to you, Rascas for the work you've done in making this implementation a viable alternative to the stand-alone distributions. I'm a big fan of the software and it's great to see it getting the attention it deserves here.

mediamogul

@Rascas, @BuZz

I've been trying different things for the past week and I just can't seem to mount an NFS share using the fstab. I've followed multiple guides, but I just can't get anything to work. My current fstab entry is as follows:

Server:/path/to/Downloads    /mnt/downloads  nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr
Server:/path/to/Media        /mnt/media nfs  rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr

I can however mount the drives by adding the following to my /etc/rc.local:

/etc/init.d/rpcbind start
mount Server:/path/to/Downloads /mnt/downloads
mount Server:/path/to/Media /mnt/media

Is there any downside to mounting this way or is it obvious what is wrong with my fstab?

mediamogul

I must have burned through 30-40 different suggestions online and none of them worked. However, the law of averages being what it is, revealed that the correct entry in this case should read:

Server:/path/to/export /local_mountpoint   nfs rw,nolock 0 0

Rascas

Maybe its the systemd. This is what I have currently:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=122066
"noauto,x-systemd.automount" in fstab options