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Why what? Why do I want Postgres? Because my database is on an iSCSI partition that is brittle.
Why? ๐
Your answer only opened more questions for me so I'm going to conclude this is above my head lol.
I'm happy to provide more details if you're interested/have specific questions.
I'm running the Jellyfin app on my home kubernetes cluster -- Kubernetes (k8s) boils down to a program scheduler with a lot of big features a lot of IT folks like. K8s runs the Jellyfin program as a "pod", and it attaches remote storage to the pod. The storage is your videos/media, but also the Jellyfin database (as a sqlite file).
There are better, more reliable ways to provide a database to an app though. Jellyfin + the sqlite database is basically just a file and that file doesn't exactly play nice when it is stored remotely. Instead, the app could use a software interface (API) that allows many kinds of databases -- sqlite OR a dedicated database service (e.g. Postgres), and there are a lot of advantages to that.