addTorrent with external hard drive

[aria2]

addTorrent with external hard drive

[tatsuhiro-t]

Please check that the file "/Volumes/My Passport/untitled folder/untitled folder2/6a002c0f0d00808dab5b5bcfe40800cace6b945e.torrent" exists.

[kax4]

File exists and torrent file when add in /Users hard drive using ntfs with Tuxera NTFS (ntfs-3g).

[tatsuhiro-t]

May the spaces in the path cause this?

What happens if running aria2c with the path directly?

$ aria2c '/Volumes/My Passport/untitled folder/untitled folder2/6a002c0f0d00808dab5b5bcfe40800cace6b945e.torrent'

If it works on internal drive and only happens with external disk, then there may be some differences in tuxera stuff.

[kax4]

Spaces not a problem torrent download fine with it, may be tuxera suff right now i don't have other usb drive format to native file system report later in few days.

[kax4]

Hello, i want to report there nothing wrong with tuxera still same problem with HFS+ file system.

[tatsuhiro-t]

The external hard disk might not be mounted at the time when aria2 tried to read file?

[kax4]

May be because external hard drive alway plug in when reboot.

[tatsuhiro-t]

Could you tweak aria2 init script to wait for the hard drive plug in?

[kax4]

Ok, i will give it a try.

[kax4]

StartOnMount
This optional key causes the job to be started every time a filesystem is mounted.
Sill same problem, Apple document mention:
If your daemon depends on the availability of a mounted volume (whether local or remote), you can determine the status of that volume using the Disk Arbitration framework

[tatsuhiro-t]

Does that mean StartOnMount is not working as advertised or aria2 emits same error even after the hard disk is completely successfully mounted and its files can be accessed by other programs?

[kax4]

StartOnMount is a only thing mentioned filesystem mounted i could find on launchd manpage add it to init script do not solve the problem aria2 emits same error, may be it work as advertised started aria2 when filesystem mounted (local one) and aria sit there with --enable-rpc so it not execute aria again when external hard drive mounted.
I think the Disk Arbitration thing can help.

[kax4]

@tatsuhiro-t Any news on this, i see that transmission and utorrent make copy of torrent files to config folder if aria behave the same can it help?

[tatsuhiro-t]

No progress on this. If OS feature does not help, writing script which repeatedly checks filesystem is mounted (e.g., try to read file on that partition and if failed, sleep 1 seconds), and after success, launch aria2c, might work.
Even if .torrent files are copied into other locations, the actual file is still in extern drive and it cannot be read before mounting that file system.

[kax4]

Thank you for replying. Will try your suggestion.