Hello again all i am interested in Proxmox way of adding a mount point to a lxc container, using the GUI works, and i a can easily add a mount point but it always creates a new zvol and gets named something like /mypool/subvol-100-1 My question is what if i want to create a zvol called /mypool/share and have that added to the lxc container I used to use a line like this in my conf file "mp0 /mypool/share,mp=/mnt/mypool/share" but i believe that is only a directory mount point, thinking that the new zvol mount points are better in may ways. I have tried may ways; creating zvol manually, renaming zvols and cannot seem to achieve what the GUI does with the name i require however nothing seems to quite work could someone let me know how i can do this Some other things i tried but did not quite work no zvol or mount point gets created should i be creating the zvol first? pvesh set /nodes/localhost/lxc/<CTID>/config -mp0 "/srv/directory,mp=/srv/directory
Hi, I guess you will create a dataset and not Zvol. Or why you want to name it like this? What is the benefit
I guess i could create a dataset, and that would be alot easier as i used to do it that way, but i think zvol is superior for speed/overhead and versatility maybe im wrong there, thinking proxmox uses zvol for good reason. The reason i would like to have it named mypool/share is i will be using it for several virtual machines as a file share, and having it named as a subvol of an lxc is doable but doesn't seem quite right for my setup. Also i would like another zvol called mypool/backups then i can upgrade/change the backup system without having to move things from one zvol to another. Basically i would like to be able to share the zvol between lxc and kvms without having it tied to one lxc by a name, maybe i am wasting my time here?
No zvol is the blkdevice emulation and this cost about 5-10% performance. Proxmox VE uses zvols for Qemu guest because Qemu can only use blk devices as storage. For LXC we use datasets. This is only possible with a dataset. This is not possible this way, but you can use a Network FS like SMB or NFS for this.
Ok thank you very much for the info guess i will keep using datasets then? Just curious seems like Proxmox uses zvol when adding a mount point to LXC containers or does it? Yes i plan to use a LXC and a mount point to do my SMB sharing was just trying to use zvol for mount point instead of dataset thinking that was the better/newer proxmox way.
This is a dataset from type filesystem only the naming looks nearly the same. you can see the type with this command. Code: zfs get type rpool/data/subvol-4203-disk-0
Ok thank you very much for helping me make matter is very clear as i can see below now. So i will continue to use datasets knowing it is the same a proxmox defaults as you described. NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE apool/subvol-101-disk-1 type filesystem - root@pve:~# zfs get type apool/share NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE apool/share type filesystem - root@pve:~# zfs get type apool/subvol-101-disk-0 NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE apool/subvol-101-disk-0 type filesystem -
