Re: NFS Kernel server inside a container

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Quoting Martin Fick (mogulguy-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org):
> --- On Wed, 5/19/10, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> It sounds like you did an NFS client mount inside a
> container. I am actually trying to do the reverse, I
> would like to do kernel server exports from within
> a container.  Specifically, I would like to have
> several data partitions replicated with drbd and to
> be able to export these partitions via NFS 
> independently from different containers with
> different IPs.  
> 
> So, for example, from 2 hosts, I might have 6 NFS 
> partitions to export and during normal operation
> I would expect each host to make 3 of the 
> partitions primary via drbd and to then to
> each launch three containers each with separate 
> IPs which will individually export the 3 different 
> drbd partitions via NFS.  For failover or load 
> balancing, it should then be able to shut down
> any individual container on one host and bring it
> up on the other host without affecting the other
> exports.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Martin

You'll need to use a userspace NFS server.  Something like
http://unfs3.sourceforge.net/.  Certainly looks...  venerable.

-serge