Copying data from Docker container to host FreeNAS machine?

[victorhooi]

Hi,

I have a FreeNAS instance running Bhyve VM (Ubuntu 18.04), and a Docker container (qbittorrent, with a web GUI).

The Bhyve VM is backed by a ZVOL, formatted as ext4.

I'm downloading data in the Docker container directly to a directory on the Bhyve disk.

What is the best way of getting data out of the Docker container, to the parent FreeNAS machine?

Is there some way of mounting a CIFS volume directly within the Docker container, and exposing that to the qbittorrent client?

Or should I mount the CIFS volume in Bhyve, and mount that to the Docker container?

What do people suggest?

Cheers,
Victor

 

[sretalla]

The conventional wisdom says that you mount an NFS share from FreeNAS to the docker host, then share it inside the container with the docker run -v switch.

I think CIFS would also work, but haven't experimented with it personally.