RFC: Mount Manager

[pvizeli]

Context

We should not relay on external mounts but in some cases it could be nice to have it like for backups or media.

Decision

We add udisks as a requirement for OS and find a suitable way to handle external mounts.

[ukrolelo]

I don't know why denilsonsa post is market as spam. Just for future reference:
@denilsonsa
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Use-cases for NAS mount (SMB/CIFS or NFS) on Home Assistant OS:

• Having an external Media source. (After all, a local /media directory is not good enough for people running the OS on SD card on Raspberry Pi or Odroid.)
• Having a way to store stuff from downloader. (e.g. Saving the videos captured by your Ring Door Bell, which is an example in the official HA documentation)
• Having a proper location for NVR tools (Network Video Recorder), such as Frigate.
• Having MariaDB, InfluxDB (or Graphite, or Prometheus) running inside HA OS, but storing the long-term data onto a NAS.
• Having all these large files outside the HA snapshots (backups), which will help making the snapshots much smaller and faster. (see this issue in influxdb add-on)
• Having fewer writes to the SD card can make it last longer, offloading the writes to a dedicated NAS system that is optimized for storage.
  There are two main needs:
• Mount stuff to be available to the Home Assistant Core instance (running inside HA OS).
• Mount stuff to be available to Add-ons (also running inside HA OS).

There is also the problem with the credentials. Where should those be stored? I trust HA developers can figure out a good solution.

[pvizeli]

We need someone who to have the time to implement udisk dbus support to the supervisor and future a concept of how the mount points can manage without break functionality and platform independence. If you are a python developer and will doing it, then I will leaf your comments, otherwise, it gets removed until someone comes who start to implement this and need this issue for useful communication and track the work

[ukrolelo]

Hi guyz, so now i have 158 votes, is it enough to speed up this process?
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/nas-mount-on-hass-os/320218
As @ludeeus mention here home-assistant/operating-system#1457 (comment)
when i had 12votes its not worth it, now its much more. Can somebody from HomeAssistant staff maybe cooperate,please advise, thank you

[frenck]

@ukrolelo Feel free to help out on the development, that is how open source works :)

[ukrolelo]

@frenck xD <3, i thought that feature request is enough?! i don't have knowledge to do this kind of stuff. My advice was just to remove the fstab file so it will not change the existing file that i created with my tutorial for temporary workaround ( https://community.home-assistant.io/t/solved-hassos-mount-nas-network-share/303292 ) and everything will be fine, but i was told its not correct.

[frenck]

i thought that feature request is enough?!

Hehe it won't built itself :)