I just noticed that ReadyDLNA's database and artwork cache are stored on the OS partition (/var/cache/minidlna). On my system that is about 600 MB of the limited OS partition space :shock: Is there any way to shift that stuff to the C Volume???

+1. I like this feature request. There is an option that can be added to /etc/minidlna.conf for this. They could use /c/.minidlna or something like that instead of /var/cache/minidlnaLooking around the web there does appear to be a db_dir option that could be tried.From the minidlna 1.0.25 source there is this default /etc/minidlna.conf file:# port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) trafficport=8200# network interfaces to serve, comma delimited#network_interface=eth0# set this to the directory you want scanned.# * if have multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines# * if you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you# can prepend the type, followed by a comma, to the directory:# + "A" for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)# + "V" for video (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)# + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)media_dir=/opt# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients#friendly_name=My DLNA Server# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its database and album art cache#db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its log file#log_dir=/var/log# set this to change the verbosity of the information that is logged# each section can use a different level: off, fatal, error, warn, info, or debug#log_level=general,artwork,database,inotify,scanner,metadata,http,ssdp,tivo=warn# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/")album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files# note: the default is yesinotify=yes# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMOenable_tivo=no# set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards.# * This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images,# which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products.strict_dlna=no# default presentation url is http address on port 80#presentation_url=http://www.mylan/index.php# notify interval in seconds. default is 895 seconds.notify_interval=900# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients# in its XML descriptionserial=12345678model_number=1# specify the path to the MiniSSDPd socket#minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock# use different container as root of the tree# possible values:# + "." - use standard container (this is the default)# + "B" - "Browse Directory"# + "M" - "Music"# + "V" - "Video"# + "P" - "Pictures"# if you specify "B" and client device is audio-only then "Music/Folders" will be used as root#root_container=.

it should be a simple matter to symlink /var/cache/minidlna to /c/.minidlna

Yes, just changing the db_dir setting in the config file will do the trick, and won't get overwritten by firmware updates. We could probably do an addon for this without too much trouble.

Skywalker wrote:Yes, just changing the db_dir setting in the config file will do the trick, and won't get overwritten by firmware updates. We could probably do an addon for this without too much trouble.Would be really helpful, as db_dir grows expodentially, if you have lots of media files and most users wouldnt feel themselves very comfortable to edit config files by hand.

This would be great idea for most DLNA users to keep DLNA component running normally on Readynas,I have seen many Readynas boxes filled up DLNA cache DB files in /var/cache/minidlna which size risen up to 1.8GB or 3.5GB(Sparc and X86 based NAS),I hope there is an addon to allow users modify current setting without SSH access.

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 25, 2012
I can confirm I get this issue in 5.3.5 when I change the settings for ReadyDLNA on a share, either enabling/disabling ReadyLNA on the share or changing the media type for the share. I'm just trying a reboot now.
Skywalker
NETGEAR Expert
Aug 24, 2012
FYI, the db_dir setting should stick for you once 5.3.6 is released.
jhobson
Aspirant
Aug 25, 2012
Era on 5.3.6 though ?
Skywalker
NETGEAR Expert
Aug 25, 2012
From what I understand, it should be available within the next few weeks.
jhobson
Aspirant
Sep 19, 2012
FYI no... 5.3.6 did NOT fix this problem, it still overwrites db_dir setting back to the default of: db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna

Skywalker

NETGEAR Expert

Sep 20, 2012

You may need to run something like:

sqlite3 /var/readynasd/db.sq3 "update service_dlna set db_dir = '/c/.readydlna'"

Etz
Aspirant
Oct 03, 2012
Basically we need to fix it, because my X86 root is filling up...

I made some config file changes and freed, myself from this problem, but what should 99,8% x86 unit users do, who dont have SSH acces, or ven dont know what it is?
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Apr 23, 2013
Here are the add-ons to Toggle the ReadyDLNA CacheDir for x86 and SPARC:
Skywalker wrote:

x86: http://www.readynas.com/download/addons/x86/4.2/Toggle_ReadyDLNA_CacheDir_1.0-x86.bin
SPARC: http://www.readynas.com/download/addons/4.1/Toggle_ReadyDLNA_CacheDir_1.0.bin

For ARM currently you would still need to do it manually. If you need help manually updating the sqlite3 database entering the command Skywalker suggested I could assist with that.

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