jailed NFS server

[Chris Rees]

On 29 Mar 2012 03:13, "Beeblebrox" <zaphod at berentweb.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe I will give unfs3 a try. However, One of the reasons I'm trying to
> set it up is to be able to run Tinderbox on that jail for distributed
> compiling. When I did a little searching about unfs3 + Tinderbox + jail,
it
> came up with posts about problems and that such setup "does not give good
> results".
> Any feedback about such setup? Also, is such "bad performance result" also
> valid for all types of HPC/parallel computing run from jails so that "Just
> Run From Host" becomes the defaul solution in these cases?
>

Jails aren't really virtualised, so performance shouldn't be an issue.

Look at the Tinderbox README for how to run it in a jail; until nullfs is
jail-safe it's impossible to do 'properly'- you have to fake around it by
chrooting tinderd.

Chris