Best way to access files on host

proksmoks

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Hi,

There's something I think I'm doing wrong. I have Proxmox on a host with a ZFS pool inside. How do I best access the files on the ZFS volumes from containers?

I have read suggestions to serve the files over NFS directly from the host. This seems like a round-about way (ZFS > host > NFS > container > SMB) and I sort of assumed it's best practice to keep the host as lean as possible.

I have a fileserver container, sharing some ZFS volumes over SMB. I have another container, sharing some other volumes to Logitech networked music devices. Yet another container will share files over https. All these containers have access to the volumes over bind mounts, as per the Proxmox (and other) information. This works great but I lost the ability to take snapshots of those containers, at least from the GUI.

Given the scenarios above, I'm struggling to find out the best way to access files from containers on the host.

cheer
 

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