On Friday 29 September 2006 14:21, Tim Mecking wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Peter Sabaini wrote:
> > * NFS on hosts: export / mount network drives on hosts, have vservers use
> > them * NFS on host and vservers: export on host, mount in vserver
> > * NFS between vservers: export / mount in vservers
> > * Userspace NFS? I usually use nfs-kernel-server, but maybe for
> > linux-vserver the userspace NFS daemon is the more adequate approach?
>
> The kernel-space NFS server isn't available in the vservers for obvious
> reasons. So I suggest to use the kernel-space nfs server in the root
> server.
I suspected as much, but thought I'd ask anyway. And what do you know, right
now I stumbled across the FAQ entry stating this... vserver docs are still a
little confusing for me :-)
> Mounting directories from the root server into a vserver running on the
> same physical machine can be done by using the bind feature. So a
> network file system isn't necessary. Just add the following line to
> /etc/vservers/<vserver-name>/fstab:
>
> <root servers dir path> <vservers mount point path> none bind,rw 0 0
> e.g.
> /home /home none bind,rw 0 0
>
> Remote directories are mounted into the each vserver which needs access
> using nfs. This is done by adding the following line to
> /etc/vservers/<vserver-name>/fstab.remote:
>
> <nfs server>:<path> <vservers mount point path> nfs defaults,rw 0 0
> e.g.
> 192.168.0.1:/home /home nfs defaults,rw 0 0
Yep that works great! Thanks!
- peter.
>
> Ciao
> Tim
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Received on Fri Sep 29 16:01:59 2006