DSM 7.1 beta compatibility

[Cadkey 43]

Hello,
Is Emby server compatible with DSM 7.1 beta please?

[FrostByte 4829]

 

@cayarsany plans to test this in your lab?

DSM 7.1 Beta – Download Center (synology.com)

Important Note
This beta software is for evaluation purposes only and should not be installed in production environments. Synology cannot be held responsible for any damage, such as accidental data loss, caused by this beta software.
After installing this update, you will not be able to downgrade to a previous DSM version.
This update will restart your Synology NAS.
For the following models, DSM 7.1 will be the last upgradable version.
XS Series: RS3413xs+, RS10613xs+, RS3614xs+, RS3614xs, RS3614RPxs, RC18015xs+, DS3615xs, DS2015xs
Plus Series: DS2413+, DS1813+, DS1513+, DS713+, RS2414RP+, RS2414+, RS814RP+, RS814+, DS214+, RS815RP+, RS815+, DS2415+, DS1815+, DS1515+, DS415+, DS215+
Value Series: RS814, RS214, DS414, DS214, DS214play, DS114, RS815, DS1515, DS715, DS415play, DS115
J Series: DS213j, DS414slim, DS414j, DS214se, DS215j, DS115j, DS216se
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Limitation
The update progress bar on a Synology High Availability cluster might not display the actual progress percentage. This won't affect the update progress.

 

[Cadkey 43]

I know some DSM7.0.1 packages are not compatible with DSM 7.1 Beta, and need an update.
So what about Emby server?

[Carlo 4291]

3 hours ago, FrostByte said:

 

@cayarsany plans to test this in your lab?

DSM 7.1 Beta – Download Center (synology.com)

Yes, sure am. I mentioned this yesterday in another thread.

Don't know why but for some reason the old "Spidey senses" are tingling so I'm doing a full backup of the NAS before proceeding.

I already have 7.1 ready to go as well as some of the other main apps people are likely to use which I'll also upgrade.  As soon as it's done backing up I'll be testing it.

[Dedone 15]

On 2/22/2022 at 9:03 PM, cayars said:

Yes, sure am. I mentioned this yesterday in another thread.

Don't know why but for some reason the old "Spidey senses" are tingling so I'm doing a full backup of the NAS before proceeding.

I already have 7.1 ready to go as well as some of the other main apps people are likely to use which I'll also upgrade.  As soon as it's done backing up I'll be testing it.

Any news on test? This silence turn my spidey senses on....:)

[Luke 34617]

Hi, not yet. It's on our to do list to try it out. Thanks.

[Cadkey 43]

2 hours ago, Dedone said:

Any news on test? This silence turn my spidey senses on....:)

If you want to talk about performance testing of an NVMe volume, yes it's done and it works fine in DSM 7.0. It's all on the forum.
For the DSM 7.1 beta I have not tested.
https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/101963-improve-performance/page/6/

[Carlo 4291]

I've done both the unsupported NVMe to volume trick with the upgrade to DSM 7.1 about a dozen times in testing and it seems to work fine.

I did experience 4 crashes at the start which I thought were NVMe related but found out it was a system root space issue and a good lesson I'll pass on. This is a "Linux" tip in general not Synology specific.

If you SSH into the NAS and "sudo df -H" you'll get a display similar to this.

The line above for /dev/md0 is the root mount for the system.  In the above picture it shows 22% full which is totally normal.  When I was having an issue it was 88% which wasn't enough free space to do the upgrade to DSM 7.1 and the beta package upgrades (I had configured).  It was filling my root "/" and would lead to system instability/crash.

Once I figured out what was taking up so much space in /dev/md0 and fixed the issue everything was very smooth upgrade wise.
PS It was a rogue 3rd party development package (reported and fixed) that was the cause of md0 filling up.

Just to be clear, when I said "crash" above I didn't mean a Windows "blue screen" type event.  On Linux when the root fills up you have no working space left which leads to some programs or commands failing to execute properly. As an example I couldn't "sudo", I couldn't add/remove packages, etc as there was no working room. It would get to the point I could even login via SSH. Once more space was freed up the system would work fine until it again filled up.

I never had any actual files or data at risk but it's a bit "alarming" until you figure out the issue and address it.

If you want to upgrade to 7.1 you should be fine but as always have a verified good backup which should go without saying.

[Dedone 15]

On 3/8/2022 at 6:44 PM, cayars said:

I've done both the unsupported NVMe to volume trick with the upgrade to DSM 7.1 about a dozen times in testing and it seems to work fine.

I did experience 4 crashes at the start which I thought were NVMe related but found out it was a system root space issue and a good lesson I'll pass on. This is a "Linux" tip in general not Synology specific.

If you SSH into the NAS and "sudo df -H" you'll get a display similar to this.

The line above for /dev/md0 is the root mount for the system.  In the above picture it shows 22% full which is totally normal.  When I was having an issue it was 88% which wasn't enough free space to do the upgrade to DSM 7.1 and the beta package upgrades (I had configured).  It was filling my root "/" and would lead to system instability/crash.

Once I figured out what was taking up so much space in /dev/md0 and fixed the issue everything was very smooth upgrade wise.
PS It was a rogue 3rd party development package (reported and fixed) that was the cause of md0 filling up.

Just to be clear, when I said "crash" above I didn't mean a Windows "blue screen" type event.  On Linux when the root fills up you have no working space left which leads to some programs or commands failing to execute properly. As an example I couldn't "sudo", I couldn't add/remove packages, etc as there was no working room. It would get to the point I could even login via SSH. Once more space was freed up the system would work fine until it again filled up.

I never had any actual files or data at risk but it's a bit "alarming" until you figure out the issue and address it.

If you want to upgrade to 7.1 you should be fine but as always have a verified good backup which should go without saying.

As always, fantastic and precious work @cayars!!!!!!! Thanks

[DarWun 206]

Updated to DSM 7.1 RC earlier today on my DS-918+ NAS. So far no issues with anything Emby related. No issues with Non-Emby related stuff either. I'll post back if that changes.

[Dedone 15]

same here, no problems at the moment

[Carlo 4291]

I'm still running very clean with no issues at all except a possible glitch in package manager.
I've seen a few instances of package repair removing all content vs a repair.
For now I'd just warn you about that so you can make a copy of data first as a precaution before attempting a repair.

This might be only happening to 3rd party vendors like Plex and Emby (2 examples) if the user didn't migrate the data.
Package center does a clean of your old location followed by a new install which leaves you with no data!!!

Of course it's only a major problem if you haven't followed migration instructions, have never done a Snapshot, have not installed or used the Emby Configuration Backup plugin, have a normal backup or copy of the data folder from Emby. The perfect storm of doing everything wrong.

[FrostByte 4829]

DSM 7.1 Final is out now.  You can download and install it manually now or wait until it hits the store in your region.

Release Notes for DSM | Synology Inc.

Edited April 11, 2022 by FrostByte

[Tremas 79]

Happy to report that I performed a manual update to 7.1 this weekend and then created an NVMe drive for emby caching (per the "Improve Performance" topic). Running with no problems so far.

[unisoft 239]

all fine on 7.1 here (DS2415+) with 4.6.7.

[Sparker 31]

Does upgrading to 7.1 interfere in any way with the SSD as a volume trick? Because I have all apps installed on volume2 (SSD)  

[DonMacaroni 21]

By the way, if everybody else is wondering, why suddenly their / (/dev/md0) has lot less free space, than before...

Quote

Dear Customer,

Thank you for contacting Synology Technical Support.

Since DSM 7.1. the Operating System will generate /usr/syno/synoinstall/space-preserve on startup.

The File is generated to reserve Space on the Systempartition for a Firmwareupdate.

During the Update the File will be removed so that the Space may be used for the Update.

If you remove the File it will be regenerated when restarting the Device.

However since this is included in the Design of DSM it should not cause any Problem for the Operating System.

We recommend against trying to remove the File manually.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best Regards,

Haseeb Sheikh
Technical Support Engineer

In my system, / is now uncomfortably full (86% utilized), so I started to wonder and found that space-preserve file, consuming over 500MB on /dev/md0 and spawned an support ticket, to understand what it is and why it is there.

Edited April 26, 2022 by DonMacaroni

[FrostByte 4829]

Just installed Update 1.  Not much there and everything went well.

Fixes:

1. Fixed an issue where users couldn't upload files to DSM via the Finder on macOS Big Sur 11.
2. Fixed multiple security vulnerabilities regarding Netatalk (CVE-2022-0194, CVE-2022-23121, CVE-2022-23122, CVE-2022-23123, CVE-2022-23124, CVE-2022-23125).

[Carlo 4291]

On 4/26/2022 at 3:54 AM, DonMacaroni said:

By the way, if everybody else is wondering, why suddenly their / (/dev/md0) has lot less free space, than before...

In my system, / is now uncomfortably full (86% utilized), so I started to wonder and found that space-preserve file, consuming over 500MB on /dev/md0 and spawned an support ticket, to understand what it is and why it is there.

That was the cause of my crashes I documented above. Mine was sitting right around 86% as well and doing the OS upgrade as well as beta updates to certain apps was too much and filled it. Bad things happen if it filles.

You will probably find one or two files responsible for the space used (at least I did).

Has Synology support got back in touch with you concerning the space-preserve file?
Keep us updated as this is good info to be aware of.

[DonMacaroni 21]

On 4/27/2022 at 8:50 PM, cayars said:

That was the cause of my crashes I documented above. Mine was sitting right around 86% as well and doing the OS upgrade as well as beta updates to certain apps was too much and filled it. Bad things happen if it filles.

You will probably find one or two files responsible for the space used (at least I did).

Has Synology support got back in touch with you concerning the space-preserve file?
Keep us updated as this is good info to be aware of.

I already quoted their response, that file can be deleted although they do not recommend doing it, but it would be spawned back after reboot.

Edited April 28, 2022 by DonMacaroni

[iJoMun 11]

On 4/11/2022 at 5:00 PM, Tremas said:

Happy to report that I performed a manual update to 7.1 this weekend and then created an NVMe drive for emby caching (per the "Improve Performance" topic). Running with no problems so far.

Dude, what is this NVMe Volume trick that you speak of? Is there a guide/link to a guide that I might lay my eyes on? My DS1621+ is starting to struggle on some 4K contents, stuttering, freezing and such nasty stuff. I believe the 1621+ has 2x M.2 slots. I could get myself a NVMe stick, install it and turn it into a new volume for Emby cache, but exactly how? What size drive should I get and does it need a heat sink? Would appreciate some feedback. Thank you.

[FrostByte 4829]

25 minutes ago, iJoMun said:

Dude, what is this NVMe Volume trick that you speak of? Is there a guide/link to a guide that I might lay my eyes on? My DS1621+ is starting to struggle on some 4K contents, stuttering, freezing and such nasty stuff. I believe the 1621+ has 2x M.2 slots. I could get myself a NVMe stick, install it and turn it into a new volume for Emby cache, but exactly how? What size drive should I get and does it need a heat sink? Would appreciate some feedback. Thank you.

Something cayars was working on.  Allows you to use the m2 drives for storage and not just Synology read/write cache.  Procedures are in the pdf

 

[iJoMun 11]

1 hour ago, FrostByte said:

Something cayars was working on.  Allows you to use the m2 drives for storage and not just Synology read/write cache.  Procedures are in the pdf

 

Merci!

[Carlo 4291]

It's made a world of difference for many of us using the NVMe's this way.

[iJoMun 11]

55 minutes ago, cayars said:

It's made a world of difference for many of us using the NVMe's this way.

I commend you, my friend! I'm definitely going to try this. A couple of quick technical questions: What size/gen NVMe are you using, or what size/gen would you recommend? Is gen 3 fast enough? Also, do I need a heatsink for it?