RFC: nfsd in a vnet jail
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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 23:17:46 UTC
Hi, bz@ has encouraged me to fiddle with the nfsd so that it works in a vnet jail. I have now basically done so, specifically for NFSv4, since NFSv3 presents various issues. What I have not yet done is put global variables in the vnet. This needs to be done so that the nfsd can be run in multiple jail instances and/or in and outside of a jail. The problem is that there are 100s of global variables. I can see two approaches: 1 - Move them all into the vnet jail. This would imply that all the sysctls need to somehow be changed, which would seem to be a POLA violation. It also implies a lot of stuff in the vnet. 2 - Just move the global variables that will always differ from one nfsd to another (this would make the sysctls global and apply to all nfsds). This will keep the number of globals in the vnet smaller. I am currently leaning towards #2, put what do others think? rick ps: Personally, I don't know what use there is of running the nfsd inside a vnet jail, but bz@ has some use case.