[SOLVED] Permissions issue on 128GB SSD internal drive

[agent_kith]

Thanks so much.
Yes that works. I used cp -R to copy the contents of the USB music folder /media/music/sdb2 to media/Music where Music is on the internal SSD.

Glad it's finally solved. I'll see if I can improve on this file permissions in the future, and make it a "one-click" solution.

Should I avoid the latest update? I don't want to scrub the OS drive unintentionally.

That's a difficult question to answer. Latest update does have some improvements to the Backend, it exits and restarts more cleanly, has a new MPD player (which doesn't sound that fantastic to be honest ). But OTOH, the new MPD player may actually sound great in your setup?

Snakeoil is all about experiment and trial/error.

I've been thinking about maintaining that pristine OS question. Whether to run Snakeoil and the WebApp as a container (LXC, not docker) instead. Thereby preserving the OS, while still running everything at bare metal speed. This may make it sound better, or worse. There are pros and cons of both, containers are easier to rollback, but may be harder and less options to tweak.

Native is fast, and er native, but to roll back you'll often need to backup/restore entire harddisks.

Which brings us back to Gear Isolation, the move away from hard coded kernels, to a more dynamic/generic one that can be customised. This means it's much easier to bring on ZFS (and maybe LVM), and with these two file systems we can introduce snapshots. The media drive can still be EXT4, or XFS (if you're hosting videos also), but the OS itself can be on ZFS/LVM, and be snap shot. This is Copy On Write (CoW), which works in the same idea as a persistent USB when setting up Snakeoil as a LiveCD. With snap shots it means it is possible to 'roll back' to a previous state. Update from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5 and have problems or don't like the way it sounds, just roll back to 1.2.4 and all will be good!

With extra time coming up from next month, I hope to finish the kernel builder, migrate the CMS, update the wiki, and then start working on 1.3.0 (Codename Measurements), where snapshots will eventually come into play.

Obviously you can start to do all this manually now. But in Measurements, this will be part of the WebApp.

ZFS is an interesting thing. It uses a lot of RAM, which can be a good or bad thing. Good in potentially this might negate the need to actually use RAM play entirely, bad in case that potential doesn't work. lol. If it's bad, the only way to get out of ZFS is to re-install...

It's certainly weird to apply my Computer Science & I.T. knowledge in audiophilla.