LVM + mounted LV into dir or Directory ext4?

kriznik

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Hello I'm wondering about what's better solution (or what are main differencies) between:

1. creating LVMThin + LV mount into the dir
2. create Directory, ext4 (UI)

?

my usecase is;
proxmox installed on HW raid1 SSD's (1TB)
datastorage HW HDD raid10 (40TB)

so in proxmox I have sda and sdb, sda contains host + local-lvm as by default
I want to have sdb mainly as datastorage, which I will share via smb via lxc. As well I want to have it as nfs from host - eg. I want to have it mounted in the folder somewhere so I can export dir for nfs.

Maybe I dont fully understand difference of Directory vs. LVMThin. From UI LVMthin cannot be mounted as dir, but I can do it from shell indeed.
Are those similar/same?
 
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