Hey all, I’ve got ZFS pool created and just create a VM drive in that pool like normal, then Jellyfin just has that drive mounted. I think I’m losing the best parts of ZFS through this manner.

How should I set this up properly? Create a media pool or something and have VMs accessing the pool directly?

  • @[email protected]
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    22 months ago

    So you mount the pool to each vm that needs the shared data? Afaik zfs is not made for concurrency

    • @[email protected]
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      02 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months 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

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              12 months ago

              Yes, Lxc, docker, whatever cgroup2 isolation environment, but not VMS, true.

              Vms can achieve the same thing through shares

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                12 months ago

                Thanks. My setup is way over complicated with 3 hosts in a cluster and shared storage, so local storage on the hosts stay unused. But i have been thinking about redoing it with separate hosts. This solution looks promising for sharing data, even if just on one host