export a zfs snapshot over nfs

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jan 26 15:54:01 UTC 2020


On 24/01/2020 17:33, mike tancsa wrote:
> On a backup server, I want to export a zfs snapshot via nfs, but I cant
> seem to do it.
> 
> given the snapshot is
> backup2/zrepl/sink2/nfserver1/images/vms at zrepl_20190902_122114_000
> 
> I can do something locally like
> 
> mkdir /tmpmount
> 
> add
> 
> /tmpmount       -maproot=nobody   192.168.13.36
> 
> and from the client machine mount /tmpmount.
> 
> But if I do on the server
> 
> mount -t zfs
> backup2/zrepl/sink2/nfserver1/images/vms at zrepl_20190902_122114_000 /tmpmount
> 
> and then try and mount from the client, I get a permission denied.
> 
> I can work around it by creating a quick clone of the snapshot and
> mounting the clone.  But was curious as to why I cant do it the first way ?
> 
> server is releng12 and nfsv3

Have you tried to navigate to the snapshot from the filesystem mount via
.zfs/snapshot ?


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Andriy Gapon


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