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Matt wrote:
> Quick question regarding nfs (or other filesystems) inside a jail.  As 
> far as I can tell, it isn't possible to mount nfs shares while inside a 
> jail.  Is this correct?  Is there any way around this limitation?  A way 
> to browse network shares without mounting?  Or some such trickery?  Thanks.

When a Jail needs to access a NFS mounted device I use to mount it on 
the hosting machine (the system outsite the jail where jail is runned 
from) in any mount-point, so I mount_nullfs inside the selected jails, 
say, mount_nullfs /nfs/backup/200.200.100.40 
/usr/jail/200.200.100.40/mnt/nfs/backup;

The problem is that you cant do it if you are not the jails admin (ie, 
you dont have full access to the jails hosting system).