This page describes how to mount NFS partition inside VE.
Contents
NFS server
Currently OpenVZ kernel doesn't include kernel NFS server support. Howether you are still able to use user space NFS server inside VE.
NFS client
Preparations
Software
You will need the following software:
Prepare the VE
To allow VE use NFS filesystem you will need to start it fith "nfs" feature enabled.
# vzctl set 100 --features "nfs:on" --save # vzctl start 101
After this you may see nfs in /proc/filesystems
# vzctl exec 101 cat /proc/filesystems
ext3
ext2
nodev rpc_pipefs
nodev proc
nodev nfs
nodev sysfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev devpts
Mounting NFS
Assuming that you already have NFS server set up at 192.168.0.1:/nfs_pub mounting will be simple
# vzctl enter 100 # mkdir /nfs # mount -t nfs 192.168.0.1:/nfs_pub /nfs # cat /proc/mounts simfs / simfs rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 nfs /nfs nfs rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,addr=192.168.0.1 0 0
For more details on how to setup NFS mount see NFS-client HOWTO