Torrent client and a smb share

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I just built a raidz pool using a recycled desktop. I have 5 500gb disks, totaling a 2tb pool. And share it as smb.

I like this size and works fine.

I want to add a directory to this share, name Downloads.

And I want to add a torrent client that will use this directory as the downloads directory, for downloading and uploading.

I’m using a proxmox server with only a TrueNAS Scale VM with hd passthrough.

Is it possible to do this? Is it viable? Anyone has anything working?

Thank you all in advance.

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I don’t use proxmox, but i have a pool, with a dataset called downloads which is used by qbittorrent as a hostpath so it can download to it and it’s shared via smb so i have access to it. so yes it’s doable without problems.

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Hi, Thanks for replying.
Did you install the app for qbittorrent or did you do anything differently?

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Right now i’m running my apps stack inside a systemd nspawn container (scale-jail) managed by portainer with my own compose files. If the new incus lxc system matures a bit i will migrate everything over, so i’m no longer reliant on jailmaker.

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There are some considerations regarding running torrents on ZFS:

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Performance%20and%20Tuning/Workload%20Tuning.html#bit-torrent