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For 1, I can bind mount then see the photos in DLNA with no issue:
mount --bind /volume1/homes/xxxxx/Holidays /volume1/photo/Holidays
Then do a re-index, works for me.
(Note: I am still on DSM 6.2, but this method lets my DS Photo see the pictures too not just DLNA)
Interesting! I guess I'll have to figure out why this isn't working for me.
Edit: eventually I found out that I need to explicitly add the bind mount path to the list of directories to be indexed! For some reason, indexing does not recurse into mounts
Also, I doubt that synology had envisioned that SSHing as root, simply to make some backed-up content available elsewhere, would be the go-to way to do it. There must be better ways to do that, right?
IIRC the built in tools let you specify different folders to be photo folders. But they don't let you pick anything under homes. So you will have to resort to bind mounting if your photos are in one of your homes folder.
OK, thanks. Is there a UI/tool for bind-mounting? I feel it's a dirty (though effective) workaround that bring its own problems and dirty workarounds (to make the mounts reboot-proof is more stuff to worry about, etc)
Not that I know of. I have had my mount bind command there for years and never had a problem.
There are different ways of making it survive a reboot, and I use the method based on this (I actually have a bunch of startup scripts, so below is just an example of what I would do for mount bind : https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/88713
#! /bin/sh
case $1 in
start)
mount --bind /volume1/homes/xxxxx/photo /volume1/photo/yyyyy
;;
stop)
echo -e "Nothing to stop..."
;;
esac
Place the shell script at /usr/local/etc/rc.d
I guess you can use DSM's task scheduler to accomplish the same thing, although I am not sure if then the mount bind will be done soon enough before media server is fired up.
Any reason to prefer that to putting it in /etc/fstab? Also, it looks like my DSM has systemd, so, progress, I guess :)
Whatever works for you ! :)