Read-only view of a ZFS filesystem inside a bhyve guest?

[Mark Raynsford]

On 2018-04-28T11:36:35 +0100
Mark Raynsford via freebsd-virtualization
<freebsd-virtualization at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Well that's two in favour of NFS. I have one small question: Is there
> any way to stop nfsd from forking into the background? I run everything
> on the system under process supervision (runit), and this is the first
> time I've ever seen a daemon program with no option to stay in the
> foreground.
> 
> I can write a wrapper in C that starts up rpcbind and nfsd (the former
> *does* have an option to stay in the foreground), but I'd rather not if
> I don't have to.

I spent a while writing a wrapper[0] that keeps nfsd in the foreground
and cleans up when it shuts down, only to discover that there's an
entirely undocumented --debug flag[1] that does the same thing.

[0] https://github.com/io7m/nfswrap-bsd
[1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blame/master/usr.sbin/nfsd/nfsd.c#L105

-- 
Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com

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