@atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
member since 12 Jun 2023 17:21
comments
- on Why use Proxmox over Podman or Docker? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3h ago
-
on Why use Proxmox over Podman or Docker? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 6h ago
I’ll die on this hill.
Containers run on “bare metal” in the same way that other processes on your system run.
-
on Moving db data (MariaDB) to NFS NAS in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
I’ve been wrestling with this issue myself recently.
There can be both performance and other issues with a db whose data files are on nfs. That said I’ve done this for years without any real problem. No db corruption so far - but it’s a possibility and I’ve probably been lucky. I have good backups just in case.
Like you I also don’t want to maintain a “pet” database on my file server. I want to spin up databases in kubernetes pods and not use local pod storage.
I’ve been investigating using iSCSI instead. It’s “block level” rather than “file level” and performs better with a database. Also none of the locking issues mentioned. It’s a recommended way to do remote storage for a db.
The downside is that it’s less resilient to the file server becoming unavailable.
Might be worth investigating for you as well - I’ll be performing some poc tests to figure out how much of a pain it may be (I don’t want to need to fsck a bunch of targets after a file server reboot).
Maybe I misunderstood - The “NixOS (bare metal)” seemed to imply to me that the containers were not bare-metal by omission. If not then my complaint is retracted.