Re: NFS Kernel server inside a container

[Martin Fick <mogulguy-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

--- On Tue, 5/18/10, Michael Tokarev <mjt-XAri/EZa3C4vJsYlp49lxw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 18.05.2010 22:51, Martin Fick wrote:
> >    FATAL: Could not load
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-vserver-686/modules.dep: No such
> file or directory
> 
> Obviously you have to have necessary modules in the
> container in order to _load_ them.  But it is simpler
> to pre-load all required modules from the host system
> instead.

Right, I actually ran the kernel server on the host 
too, just to make sure the modules were loaded.

> Actually it does not work even after solving
> module issue.  I asked about this very issue
> at the end of last year (I think), but no one
> answered.  It looks like knfsd threads are
> working in "global" (i.e host) namespace, not
> in the container namespace, or the said
> namespace isn't being set up correctly in
> the kernel.  In any way, nfs service needs
> to be "containerized" properly before being
> useful inside a container, which is not done
> currently, it seems.

Is anyone working on this?  It certainly
would be a very useful feature. :)  If it
is only a matter of setting up the 
container appropriately, any ideas how to
do that? Thanks,

-Martin