Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:06:17 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS within a Jail?! Message-ID: <20120810160617.GA49918@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <50251DE5.3010106@a1poweruser.com> References: <1344347348.23440.5.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> <5022715C.9010301@a1poweruser.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208100812060.2876@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <50250034.8010004@a1poweruser.com> <20120810135446.GA48662@ei.bzerk.org> <50251DE5.3010106@a1poweruser.com>
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:42:45AM -0400, Fbsd8 typed: > Ruben de Groot wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 08:36:04AM -0400, Fbsd8 typed: > >>Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>>>>Many thanks in advance. > >>>>> > >>>>Quick answer is "No, NFS only runs on the host system". > >>>> > >>>but user space nfsd works. in ports - unfsd > >>> > >>> > >>Close but no cigar. > >> > >>In the ports system it's named unfs3 and described as > >> > >>UNFS3 is a user-space implementation of the NFSv3 server specification. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >>It provides a daemon for the MOUNT and NFS protocols, which are used by > > ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ > >>NFS clients for accessing files on the server. > >> http://unfs3.sourceforge.net/ > >> > >>Now here is the KEY. No where does it say it has the "server" side > >>function, only the client side. > > > >It sais so very clearly. > > > >Ruben > > > > > What you say: Just 2 words further on in that sentence "used by NFS > clients". > > Read as unfs3 is run as client to access kernel nfs on host. No you read wrong. It is a userspace daemon that provides nfs service. It is a daemon. Not a client. > No where in any documentation on unfs3 does it ever say unfs3 has to be > run on both client and service side. Because it is not a client.
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