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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?

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[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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.