Two jails working on the same dataset?

[badbyte]

On my freenas, I have nextcloud running and in my archives , in there I have a large collection of songs. And I want to install mediasonic, and want to enable it to access my music collection.
Is it possible that I point into the dataset of nextcloud?

 

[danb35]

Is it possible that I point into the dataset of nextcloud?

Certainly it's possible. And if one of those will be accessing that dataset read-only, it's perfectly safe. If both need read-write access, though, there's the chance of some contention--the nullfs mount point doesn't have any file locking mechanism.

 

[Yorick]

Yes. What you do is decouple the data from the jail, which is An Excellent Idea, Even Best Practice anyway.

If your NextCloud stuff is currently in the jail, do this:
- Create a fresh dataset.
- Shut down NextCloud
- rsync -ha your stuff over into the fresh dataset
- Verify everything is there, then from CLI, empty the original NextCloud dir
- Mount the new dataset, which now contains your data, into the directory where NextCloud expects it
- Restart NextCloud, make sure everything works.

And now you can also mount this dataset into mediasonic, and have it access music.

I am doing this for music with Plex and Logitech Media Server, works great.

 

[Yorick]

If both need read-write access

Exceedingly unlikely for a music folder. Metadata for the music would be kept outside of the media folder itself, if MediaSonic and NextCloud behave like every other app out there.

 

[danb35]

Exceedingly unlikely for a music folder.

That's what I thought, but you never know...