Richard Baguley Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Hey all, building a new Unraid server here. I have an SMB share called Media that I want to access from an Ubuntu (22.10) VM. What is the best way to do it? Should I use 9p or VirtioFS? I see conflicting reports about both: 9p has issues with user permissions, but VirtioFS isn't stable? Thoughts? The share should have no access restrictions: everything on it has full permissions, and I want the VM to be able to write to the share. Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 The other possibility is to simply access it as a SMB share. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 28 minutes ago, Richard Baguley said: What is the best way to do it? Personally I use smb, have been for years. I mount mine using fstab //tower/share /local/folder cifs file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,_netdev,username=user,password=userpass,vers=1.0,uid-1000,gid=1000 0 0 ymmv, but I find speeds to be better this way than with 9p, supposedly there have been recent improvements, I haven't found the need to experiment. 1 Quote Link to comment
Richard Baguley Posted March 29, 2023 Author Share Posted March 29, 2023 thanks, I have been experimenting with 9p, but it seems to have some issues with permissions. I'll probably just use CIFS which seems less finnicky. Quote Link to comment
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