Sonarr: Import not creating hardlinks as expected

[jtpavlock]

With the create hardlinks feature on, sonarr is still copying files instead of hardlinking them (as shown by the number of links in ls -l).

Now, if I manually hardlink using the same directory set

ln /downloads/example_file /tv/season/example_file

it works as expected and creates the hardlink.

I tried to look at log files, but did not see anything related to importing.

Running version 2.0.0.4949 on Debian under docker.

[Taloth]

Did you run ln inside the docker container?

[jtpavlock]

Ha, silly mistake on my part. I use mergerfs which has it's own way of dealing with hardlinks, but the issue was I wasn't exposing the entire data pool to sonarr, only certain folders so mergerfs couldn't do it's magic inside the container properly. Got it working now :) sorry about that.

[chriswiduta]

How did you implement this fix @jtpavlock ?

[jtpavlock]

@chriswiduta mounted all of my data drives to the docker container (in my case I had them under /mnt/tank/) rather than just the tv folder which was /mnt/tank/tv/

[jonatronnn]

@jtpavlock are you using the linuxserver/sonarr container?

I am running into this hardlinking issue on my system (also using MergerFS/containers for everything)

I am unsure as to how you go about providing this container only one mount point and having the correct downloads/tv folders selected?

[jtpavlock]

@jonatronnn Maybe this will help, I use docker compose and these are the volumes that I mount

             volumes:
                     - /opt/appdata/sonarr:/config
                     - /mnt/tank/:/data
                     - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

I then select the proper folders with data/ within sonarr itself

[jonatronnn]

Brilliant, thanks I'll give that a go.

What create polices/run options do you use with MergerFS?

I did a bit of reading that indcated using a non-path preserving create policy and ignorepponrename=true would help when using hardlinks.

[jtpavlock]

/mnt/disk* /mnt/tank fuse.mergerfs defaults,allow_other,direct_io,use_ino,category.create=mfs,minfreespace=50G,fsname=tank 0 0

[jonatronnn]

Up and running with what seem to be working hardlinks with my Deluge/Sonarr containers, thanks very much for the information!