[Lxc-users] [NFS] nfs server

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 08/09/2011 05:40 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 08/09/2011 08:27 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 03:10:44PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>> On 08/09/2011 10:03 AM, Jeremy MAURO wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Any updates about this request, because I am unable to setup a nfs 
>>>> server on the container without a nfs-server on the main server.
>>>> Once the nfs-kernel-server is setup on the main server, I am still 
>>>> unable to mount the nfs exports:
>>>> On the main server:
>>>> [root at server]:/var/lib/lxc/nfsroot/rootfs/var/lib # showmount -e localhost
>>>> Export list for localhost:
>>>> [root at server]:/var/lib/lxc/nfsroot/rootfs/var/lib #
>>>>
>>>> On the container:
>>>> [root at nfsroot]:~ # showmount -e localhost
>>>> Export list for localhost:
>>>> /var/nfsroot 10.10.0.0/16
>>>> [root at nfsroot]:~ # showmount -e 10.10.200.31
>>>> Export list for 10.10.200.31:
>>>> /var/nfsroot 10.10.0.0/16
>>>>
>>>> And when trying to mount the export, the clients just hangs
>>>> [root at client-server]:/ # mount 10.10.200.31:/var/nfsroot /mnt/
>>>>
>>>> Any idea?
>>> I think the nfs server is not yet supported by the kernel.
>>> AFAIR Kirill had a patchset to be merged mainline but I don't know what
>>> is the status.
>> AFAIK, upstream has no objections on this patchset, but they don't merge
>> it. I don't know why.
>>
>> Anyway, it's only a small part of work which need to be done to get nfs work
>> properly in containers.
>>
>> Rob, do you have any status update? I don't follow nfs maillist currently.
> Not that I know of, I submitted the NFSv3 fixes to the NFS guys ~3 times
> and never got a response.  (As far as I could tell I didn't address
> NFSv4, therefore they didn't care.)
>
> Touch swamped at the moment but I can dig up and resubmit this weekend
> if you'd like.

That would be great ! Can you Cc me ?