Truenas NFS

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HuskyGuy

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I am currently presenting storage to my proxmox hosts from Truenas NFS shares. Is there a performance or functionality difference in Proxmox between Storage Types when bringing that share online to the host whether I first mount the NFS share on the proxmox host then register it as a Storage Directory, or whether I just register the NFS share as an NFS Storage Type?

I.e. in the GUI:
1). Datacenter > Storage > Add > Directory (assumes the Truenas NFS share is already mounted to the proxmox host)
-OR-
2). Datacenter > Storage > Add > NFS

Thanks for your consideration.
 
HuskyGuy said:
Datacenter > Storage > Add > Directory (assumes the Truenas NFS share is already mounted to the proxmox host)
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You could do this, however you need to be absolutely sure that it actually mounts on boot - that is your responsibility.
You also want to mark that "directory" storage as "mountpoint" to avoid writing data to empty directory if the mount fails.

You also need to ensure that any changes you make to NFS are manually replicated across all hosts.
HuskyGuy said:
2). Datacenter > Storage > Add > NFS
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You would not need to do any of the above.

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Thanks for the reply.

I shutdown all the VMs and CTs, removed all storage entries from the PM GUI, commented out NFS mounts from /etc/fstab, and rebooted all the nodes. I recreated the Storage entries as NFS from the Truenas server and all seems well. When I added the Storage entries as NFS I did not see any options to mark the directory as "mountpoint". Can you give me a clue where that is? Its a home-lab so I'm not terribly concerned about blowing things up.
 
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