[Lxc-users] mounting nfs not working

[Jäkel, Guido]

Dear Andreas,

In spite of this should be possible; from an abstract viewpoint it's better to mount the NFS source on the host and propagate it via a bind mount to the container. Particularly if you want to use this nfs source in more than one container on this host.

Independent from that I want to point you to the fact that you may use a relative path (here: 'home') for the location inside your container instead of the absolute (which may change)

Greetings

Guido

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andreas Laut [mailto:andreas.laut at spark5.de]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 2:33 PM
>To: lxc-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Lxc-users] mounting nfs not working
>
>Hi list.
>
>I've tried to mount an external nfs mount into a container. But I got
>the following error message after lxc-start:
>lxc-start: Invalid argument - failed to mount 'nfsserver:/srv/services'
>on '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc//home'
>
>And my lxc.mount.entry looks like:
>nfsserver:/srv/services /srv/lxc/container/rootfs/home nfs
>defaults,_netdev,rsize=8192,rw  0      0
>
>My lxc Version is 0.8.0~rc1-8+deb7u1.
>The nfs mount is reachable from host and container.
>
>All help is appreciated.