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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>On the host OS, this NFS command works:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>mount -t nfs4 -o rw,intr,timeo=600,port=2051 10.1.3.67:/ /mnt/hdfs</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That same mount works from within the container (the container is set to unconfined so it can perform mounts).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I try to add this mount to the fstab file of the container it fails:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>root@atlas01:/var/lib/lxc# cat testsandboxa01/fstab<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>proc proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>sysfs sys sysfs defaults 0 0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>10.1.3.67:/ /var/lib/lxc/testsandboxa01/rootfs/mnt/hdfs nfs4 rw,intr,timeo=600,port=2051 0 0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Try to start the container and we get:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>root@atlas01:/var/lib/lxc# lxc-start -n testsandboxa01<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>lxc-start: Invalid argument - failed to mount '10.1.3.67:/' on '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc//mnt/hdfs'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>lxc-start: failed to setup the mounts for 'testsandboxa01'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>lxc-start: failed to setup the container<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>lxc-start: invalid sequence number 1. expected 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>lxc-start: failed to spawn 'testsandboxa01'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, can I unmounts & remount the containers fstab entries without restarting the container? As a workaround to the above I mounted NFS on the host and mounted that directory into the container. But now I’ve run into an NFS problem that requires an unmounts/remount, which I did on the host, but the container appears to need the same, and shutting down the services it runs to restart isn’t good.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>