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.
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.
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.