ZFS samba share best practice

[Gwynei]

Hi all,

My purpose of Proxmox is two ways. I want to host a few VM's, but I also want to share the local attached ZFS filesystem to the internal network using Samba.

I have read that it's not a best practice to install samba on the Proxmox host itself. Instead, a CT should be used.

Should I just follow these steps described in the wiki on the page 'LXC Bind Mounts'? I am running Proxmox 4.0.

My worries is that it will have impact on the ZFS performance because it has to go through "ZFS mount on host->CT->clients". Even CT is not real virtualization of course.

Thanks all for your help.

 

[fireon]

I use Proxmox as local Storage... too or as extra PHY storage device. Works really fine with ZFS. Easy and stable. We use NFS share with ACLs (look at your Dataset options), and samba for some Windowsshares. I never would like to have these share in VMs or Containers. But you can do this also with an LXC... but i think it is better to have these all datas local. It was easier to work with them, have the best performance and best controll over local acls.

 

[sigxcpu]

Your network will be the bottleneck. Don't worry about running Samba in a CT.