seafile-mount

Mount your Seafile libraries, but containerized.

About

This docker image mounts a Seafile user's library using the seadrive client, which streams a filesystem instead of syncing.

Using Seadrive containerized has several advantages (probably – in my case, it was just an infrastructural requirement).

Image supports x86_64 and arm64 because that's what Seadrive is available for. Albeit, the arm64 Debian repository for Seadrive didn't receive the latest patches, but still works.

Drawbacks

Your host system needs to have Fuse installed and the container needs to be run with --privileged.

Running it

• Configure using environment variables.
• Give extended privileges (Engine, Compose)
• Bind mount /seafile with type bind and bind-propagation rshared.
• Image is just called seafile-mount

Example

Command line

docker run --privileged \
--env-file ./.env \
--mount type=bind,source=/home/yuri/seafile-mount,target=/seafile,bind-propagation=rshared \
-it seafile-mount

docker-compose.yml

version: "3"
services:
  seadrive:
    container_name: seadrive
    image: yuribecker/seafile-mount:latest
    environment:
      - SEAFILE_MOUNT_SERVER=https://seadrive.example.org
      - SEAFILE_MOUNT_USERNAME=username@example.org
      - SEAFILE_MOUNT_TOKEN=TOKEN
    privileged: true
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        bind:
          propagation: rshared
        source: /home/yuri/seafile-mount
        target: /seafile

Environment Variables

Name	Description	Default
SEAFILE_MOUNT_SERVER	URL of your server (including https://)	required
SEAFILE_MOUNT_USERNAME	Username (email) of the user	required
SEAFILE_MOUNT_TOKEN	Token for the user, see Acquiring a Token	required
SEAFILE_MOUNT_IS_PRO	Is server Professional Edition? (true/false)	false
SEAFILE_MOUNT_CLIENT_NAME	Name for how this client should show up in Seafile's admin panel	Seafile Docker Mount
SEAFILE_MOUNT_CACHE_SIZE_LIMIT	Size limit for the cache	10GB
SEAFILE_MOUNT_CLEAN_CACHE_INTERVAL	Interval for cache cleaning in minutes	10
SEAFILE_MOUNT_FUSE_OPTS	FUSE mount options	allow_root,auto_unmount
SEAFILE_MOUNT_ALLOW_OTHER	Shortcut for SEAFILE_MOUNT_FUSE_OPTS=allow_other,auto_unmount (set to yes)	optional

See the official documentation for more info about these options.
_{"Info" in this case means there isn't much info in the official documentation anyway.}

Acquiring a Token

As shown in the official documentation, request a token from your Seafile instance's API.

curl --url https://YOUR_SEAFILE_INSTANCE/api2/auth-token/ \
  --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  --data-urlencode "username=EMAIL" \
  --data-urlencode "password=PASSWORD"

Note that it doesn't work with a Token extracted from a browser session.