NFS within a Jail?!

[Fbsd8]

blackfriar wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> I'm wondering if it's possible to run in a "clear fashion" an NFS server
> within a jail on FreeBSD 9.0.
> 
> I'm having some issues that make me think this is not supposed to work.
> I've googled it but I couldn't find much especially on releases prior
> 5!!
> 
> A quick tip would be great .... I don't really wanna waste hours on this
> not very relevant issue.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 

Quick answer is "No, NFS only runs on the host system".

Long answer is; NFS requires rpcbind to function. rpcbind is dependent 
on a network stack. Jails do not have their own network stack, they use 
the hosts network stack. There is some experimental software to give 
each jail its own network stack but I sure would not deploy a production 
system based on this.