the TN app “Frigate” has some default storage entries in the config which I am wary of fiddling with. Please see the attached screenshot: inside the directory “ix-applications” there is, eventually, a subdir called frigate, inside which are a couple of other levels terminating in “snapshots” and “clips” directories quite a few levels down.
These two directories store video clips and jpeg snapshots of images from CCTV cameras. I would like to mount them read only so that I can easily get at the contents when I wish to copy something to other locations (for backing up or experimenting).
My desktop machine and others on the LAN currently have mount points for a number of directories in my main “mainraid” TrueNAS tank (I have created NFS mounts of “documents”, “photographs”, etc. in the various network machines’ etc/fstab).
I think I should be able to press that “additional storage” button in the app and make it a host path to source from, and create a mount point destination in my “mainraid” tank, but when I try it the ix-applications directory isn’t listed. I don’t use Windows so I don’t want to try the SMB approach unless that’s the only solution.
I have got rather muddled trying to sort out other matters and I am fearful of making a mistake. Please can someone spell out for a simpleton what the best approach ought to be please?
but he knows what he’s doing, whereas in my case …
I will concentrate on some other matters for now and I’ll revisit this if I get anywhere! Thanks for chipping in with your idea: it made me pay attention to what the tool tips actually say.
replying to my own question in case it helps someone else (if they’re as dozy as I have been):
Rather than use an ixVolume (which points internally to /ix-applications) as the default for config and data, use it for config but use a host path for the data. Then you can mount the host path wherever you need it, make it RO etc.
