SOLVED: Jellyfin NAS Not Scanning Correctly

[ghunterx21]

Hi all,

Having an issue which is genuinly driving me insane.

I had Jellyfin inside an LXC container on Proxmox with an NTFS drive passed through and Samba installed so I can access the drive to add media. Everything works perfectly, but running out of space.

So got myself a NAS, installed Proxmox with two containers, one Jellyfin and one OpenMediaVault. Setup OMV with the new drives, one with EXT4 and one with NTFS, shared using NFS, which Jellyfin sees and adds all the data, so I'm back to having my Jellyfin in the new container running from the NAS. But here's the issue.

When I delete content from the folder in explorer, Jellyfin is not detecting the changes, I need to delete from Jellyfin to delete from the folder and remove it from Jellyfin. If I copy content to the folder, it doesn't detect it. I need to run Scan Media Library. I've set it to run every 15 minutes now, but never needed to do this before.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here to be honest. It worked in the other container perfectly fine, it watches the folder for changes and never had any issues.

Is there clearly something I'm missing??

Thanks all for your time.

[Efficient_Good_5784]

The issue you're facing is that real-time monitoring does not work over a network share.
Network shares do not support the necessary thing that enables real-time reporting to function.

It only works when the media is added to drives directly mounted to the host OS.
You'll have to get used to scanning a specific season/show/movie/library or whole server to get network share additions and deletions to be handled.

[ghunterx21]

The issue you're facing is that real-time monitoring does not work over a network share.
Network shares do not support the necessary thing that enables real-time reporting to function.

It only works when the media is added to drives directly mounted to the host OS.
You'll have to get used to scanning a specific season/show/movie/library or whole server to get network share additions and deletions to be handled.

Thanks for your reply. I had thought that. But I currently have the Proxmox running on the Nas with the new Jellyfin container, I've passed both drives through, but even when I scan drives it won't then remove it from the library.

Tried with both EXT4 and NTFS drives, in case it's a filesystem issue.

So not sure anymore.

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you share your jellyfin log via privatebin.net?

[ghunterx21]

Very sorry for the long delay. I thought I replied a good while back. I've decided to leave it using NFS and have a schedule running every 15 minutes. It's no biggie, if I really need to, can also run the schedule myself manually, but normally, I just leave it run by it's self.

Thanks

Can you share your jellyfin log via privatebin.net?

[kandykarter]

The issue you're facing is that real-time monitoring does not work over a network share.
Network shares do not support the necessary thing that enables real-time reporting to function.

It only works when the media is added to drives directly mounted to the host OS.
You'll have to get used to scanning a specific season/show/movie/library or whole server to get network share additions and deletions to be handled.

I hear this a lot but I think it's outdated information. I have network shares mounted with cifs in my fstab, and Jellyfin's real-time monitoring works fine. I'm sure it's still finicky, but to say it does not work is not correct. I think as long as the app that writes to the network share is on the same host machine as Jellyfin, it should work fine. If I manipulate a file on my Synology NAS through the DSM interface, Jellyfin won't notice the change, but if (a program we don't talk about here) is running on the same host as Jellyfin, changes made by the app-that-shant-be-named will be noticed as usual.