Files sharing between VM and Container: What is the best solution to optimize data transfer?

[Dams]

Hi,

In my proxmox, i have :

• a VM with Openmediavault OS.
  I have severals HDD-Passthrough on it (i use snapraid and mergerfs).
  
  
• a container with my plex server

I want to share files between my VM and my container (in read only).
What is the solution for best performance, please ?

Thank you very much for your help.

 

[budy]

The simplest way would be to export the storage via NFS from the OV guest. Since this is running all locally on the system the speeds will be more than enough of what a plex server would need.

 

[Dams]

Yes, i have tried NFS, it works, but it use lot of CPU...

When my container acces data from NFS, CPU of my NFS server become too high.

I have an I5 4670 with16 GB DDR3.

How to optimize this ?

Thank you very much.

 

[budy]

Hard to tell without further data. Usually the use of NFS itself doesn't spike the CPU. To better be able to judge this, you'd have to show something like

top -s 5

re-create the issue and share the output.