nfs within jail

[Matt]

Patrick Tracanelli wrote:

>
> Matt wrote:
>
>> Quick question regarding nfs (or other filesystems) inside a jail.  
>> As far as I can tell, it isn't possible to mount nfs shares while 
>> inside a jail.  Is this correct?  Is there any way around this 
>> limitation?  A way to browse network shares without mounting?  Or 
>> some such trickery?  Thanks.
>
>
> When a Jail needs to access a NFS mounted device I use to mount it on 
> the hosting machine (the system outsite the jail where jail is runned 
> from) in any mount-point, so I mount_nullfs inside the selected jails, 
> say, mount_nullfs /nfs/backup/200.200.100.40 
> /usr/jail/200.200.100.40/mnt/nfs/backup;
>
> The problem is that you cant do it if you are not the jails admin (ie, 
> you dont have full access to the jails hosting system).
>
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Thanks for your input.  I've noticed that nfs server is runing nfsv4.  
This might shed new light on the problem.