Comment on How best to store a media library in proxmox?
non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoWhy bother with truenas? Just put the media in a zfs pool and mount it directly into jellyfin.
Sure, you can also do this. But why not make it available to your network in addition to Jellyfin? What if you have a TV that doesn’t have access to the Jellyfin app? If it’s a private ZFS pool not on the network you’re fucked. If you share the media via a network share, you can always do any number of things to stream that media to your TV.
It gives you a ton more options up to and including just watching the media on your PC in your favorite media browser.
If it’s a private ZFS pool not on the network you’re fucked.
Sorry, i didn’t word that correctly. I understand why you might need a share, I just think a whole truenas instance just for a few shares is way overkill. If I needed a samba share, NFS export, or an iscsi lun i would just spin up a Debian container and be done with it.
You can do a share any number of ways. I simply banked on the fact that anyone willing to ask the question likely doesn’t know how to setup SMB shares without a GUI like TrueNAS.
Yes, not course. I forgot about the gui, that’s valid.
Oisteink@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
So you mount the pool to each vm that needs the shared data? Afaik zfs is not made for concurrency
non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Zfs (and most modern filesystems) are fine with concurrency.
I mount the same data store into several instances, it works well. Just needs some planning for permissions.
Oisteink@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Could you explain further with a bit more detail? I havnt looked at this in a while but back then the options where virtiofs or nfs
non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Each cgroup container mounts a host path. That’s it.