kern/133265: [jail] is there a solution how to run nfs client in jail environment?

[Eirik Øverby]

Hoi,
someone (Landon) did a java16 build on one of our sparc64 jails using  
NFS in some way for cross-building elsewhere and stuff. Some userland  
NFS from ports, I believe.

Just fyi.
/Eirik

On 8. juni. 2009, at 19.30, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR kern/133265; it has been noted by  
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> From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz at FreeBSD.org>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, pg at fincombank.com
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: kern/133265: [jail] is there a solution how to run nfs  
> client
> in jail environment?
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:18:35 +0000 (UTC)
>
> The general answer is:  it is not possible.
>
> You could do the NFS mount from the base system and have the
> mountpoint within the visbility of the jail.
>
> You may get around enabling raw_sockets but if that works somehow I
> wouldn't rely on it and you'll have to be aware of what globally
> enabling raw sockets means.
>
> With FreeBSD 8 it will hopefully be possible as you may have your own
> network stack oer jail.  I am just not sure if the NFS code is there
> ("fully virtualized") yet to make it work.
>
> -- 
> Bjoern A. Zeeb                      The greatest risk is not taking  
> one.
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