Using storage

[belrpr]

Hi,

I had a discussion with a friend on how to use the storage in proxmox.
Take a hypothetical scenario of a surveillance appliance.

The appliance is installed in a lxc container on ubuntu.
Where would you store the video data?
Using a mount point and a folder on ZFS volume or using a disk which is saved on the zfs volume.

How I see it:
Mountpoint has the advantage that if you lxc container doesn't bot you can just copy the vids without any problem.

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hi,

Personally, I would just add a second "disk" (it is in fact just a mountpoint, the options is even called 'mpX').
It should have the same performance and as you stated it's a bit easier to restore if the CT was damaged.
Also you have the option to include this disk in a backup (or not, if you say it's to much data).

It maybe worth noting that CT disk are not the same as VM disks, i.e., the volume can be mapped directly in CTs as mount point, whereas you got to emulate the hardware of a disk for VMs - which got quite efficient in the last years, but still an overhead.