Serve NFS from within a jail?

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Thu Oct 23 06:48:47 PDT 2003


On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:42:06PM -0700, Nicholas Esborn wrote:
> However, neither mountd nor nfsd are happy running inside the jail:

NFS is one of those things that is largely implemented as a service
in the kernel, and so doesn't really fit in with the way jail's
work.

If you want to run an NFS server from a jail, you'd probably need
a userland NFS server. I don't know for certain, but cfs from ports
might be able to do this.

	David.


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