Updating content of disk shared under network storage for DLNA sharing

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I am using the GL-MT6000 with OpenWrt 21.02-SNAPSHOT r15812+1085-46b6ee7ffc, kernel 5.4.238, firmware 4.7.7 release1.

I can share a disk through the network storage functionality ( Network Storage - GL.iNet Router Docs 4 ) and I can access it just fine through sftp at sftp://[email protected]/tmp/mountd/disk1_part1/

However, when connecting to the "GL-mt6000 DLNA Server" through VLC for example, only some of the folders are shown. If I "force" a rescan by changing the path shared, by sharing only a sub-folder for example, /disk1_part1/test/

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then all of the test folder is correctly shown, and I can even revert to sharing only /disk1_part1/ and I will see all the folders.

However, if I restart the router, then I can see again only some of the files / folder. Is there a simpler way to force a re-scan, or am I missing something?

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I used an A1300 router, V4.7.2, for testing and there was no problem. Does the problem have to be reproduced with an MT6000 device? Have you tried anything else?

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I only have a MT-6000, and the problem is that it sometimes correctly index all the files & folders, sometimes not. It may be a faulty drive, but what I am looking for right now is if there is a command to force a re-scan of the drive.

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Related: Incomplete directory returned from DLNA server - #17 by tsantilis where it was recommended to check for non-standard folder / file names, and where the issue vanished after a reboot if I read correctly.

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There is no command to rescan the drive. Normally, everything will be visible after it is mounted.

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I understand, but it does not show everything unless I play that "select a sub-folder from the interface" game :-/

Maybe using minidlnad -R or some other command from minidlnad could work? I have the following version installed:

Package: minidlna
Version: 1.3.0-1
Depends: libc, libpthread, libexif, libjpeg, libsqlite3-0, libffmpeg, libid3tag, libflac, libvorbis
Status: install user installed
Section: multimedia
Architecture: aarch64_cortex-a53
Size: 133801
Filename: minidlna_1.3.0-1_aarch64_cortex-a53.ipk
Conffiles:
 /etc/config/minidlna 5945ac3ce12ff81417a6ed1dfdecbda807feafe510a775844066e6da220c71c9
Description: MiniDLNA (aka ReadyDLNA) is server software with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients.
Installed-Time: 1744682027

I do have option inotify '1' in the config file, so I agree it should work…

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I'm having this exact issue. I have unmounted the drive, reattached. Unmounted and restarted. I just restarted (a few times) but I can not see all my files, in fact only 3 out of probably best part of 1k.
Did you find a resolution?

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Please try checking your non-standard file names and restarting again.

I tested again using MT6000 version 4.7.7, and was able to view all file contents on the mount point.