Guys, please forgive me - it's my first zfs system, and I don't really understand the difference between a dataset and a directory.
when I mkdir something - is it a dataset?
Also, at the beginning of this guide, you say - create a dataset and give media:media permissions. What do you mean?
Create dataset in gui, or mkdir media chown -R media:media media
What permissions do you mean, too?
The reason I'm asking is that I am following your guide for the Nth time and every time I get different permission problems. It's killing me.
Here's my setup.
I installed the system. Pulled all the data via network from an old linux machine using a borrowed HDD.
I moved my own HDDs to the freenas box, created a pool
Master for data
fastpool (ssd) for iocage.
Then I mkdir'ed /mnt/Master/media/movies
/mnt/Master/media/downloads
/mnt/Master/media/tv
/mnt/Master/media/iso
/mnt/Master/media/...blablabla
I moved all my data into them, unplugged the borrowed hdd and returned to owner.
so... as you can imagine, my /mnt/Master/media is owned by root:wheel
after following your guide all the folders inside still are, apart from the downloads folder, which is owned by media. (done during transmission install)
As you can imagine, trransmission is happy to download there, and only there. If I want to download a movie not via radarr, it chokes on permission denied.
I was thinking about chown -R media:media media, but then there's the thing. do I then add the whole family to media group so they can have control? and how do I limit the access to ekhem, naughties, so the kids don't stumble upon them?
