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?
Why bother with truenas? Just put the media in a zfs pool and mount it directly into jellyfin.
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.
So you mount the pool to each vm that needs the shared data? Afaik zfs is not made for concurrency
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.
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
Each cgroup container mounts a host path. That’s it.
So lxc containers and not vm’s
Yes, Lxc, docker, whatever cgroup2 isolation environment, but not VMS, true.
Vms can achieve the same thing through shares
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.