NFS within a Jail?!

[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


Dealing with this has been SOP practice in jails since their inception.
 See man 8 jail.  The best way to run the NFS server is from the jail.
 Running it host side is the hard part.


> 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.
>

There are a number of people who have reached the
opposite decision concerning VIMAGE/VNET enabled jails.  They are much
easier to work with and provide nice capabilities.

-- 
Adam Vande More