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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Allow nfs filesystems to be automatically mounted.
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John Darrington |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] gnu: Allow nfs filesystems to be automatically mounted. |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:32:58 +0100 |
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 11:07:27PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
> * gnu/build/file-systems.scm (mount-file-system): Append target addr=
when
> mounting nfs filesystems.
> ---
> gnu/build/file-systems.scm | 16 +++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/build/file-systems.scm b/gnu/build/file-systems.scm
> index 0d55e91..c6fc784 100644
> --- a/gnu/build/file-systems.scm
> +++ b/gnu/build/file-systems.scm
> @@ -481,7 +481,21 @@ run a file system check."
> (call-with-output-file mount-point (const #t)))
> (mkdir-p mount-point))
>
> - (mount source mount-point type flags options)
> + (mount source mount-point type flags
> + (cond
> + ((string-match "^nfs.*" type)
> + (let* ((host (car (string-split source #\:)))
> + (aa (car (getaddrinfo host #f)))
> + (sa (addrinfo:addr aa))
> + (inet-addr (inet-ntop (sockaddr:fam sa)
> + (sockaddr:addr sa))))
> + (string-append "addr="
> + inet-addr
> + (if options
> + (string-append "," options)
> + ""))))
> + (else
> + options)))
Looking at mount(8), it seems that the normal way is for ???source??? to be
something like ???knuth.cwi.nl:/dir???. The kernel then takes care of
parsing that and doing name resolution somehow.
In that case, we don???t have anything to do, good for us.
Unforunately that is not the case. :(
Attempting to mount a NFS system by a direct system call will fail unless you
pass addr= as an option (try it if you don't believe me). The mount.nfs
command when used with -v shows what actually goes on:
$ sudo mount.nfs -v 192.168.0.125:/export/junk /mnt
mount.nfs: timeout set for Wed Nov 23 23:50:43 2016
mount.nfs: trying text-based options
'vers=4.2,addr=192.168.0.125,clientaddr=192.168.0.22'
mount.nfs: mount(2): Protocol not supported
mount.nfs: trying text-based options
'vers=4.1,addr=192.168.0.125,clientaddr=192.168.0.22'
mount.nfs: mount(2): No such file or directory
mount.nfs: trying text-based options 'addr=192.168.0.125'
mount.nfs: prog 100003, trying vers=3, prot=6
mount.nfs: trying 192.168.0.125 prog 100003 vers 3 prot TCP port 2049
mount.nfs: prog 100005, trying vers=3, prot=17
mount.nfs: trying 192.168.0.125 prog 100005 vers 3 prot UDP port 45585
192.168.0.125:/export/junk on /mnt type nfs
As you can see, it does a kind of crude protocol negotiation with the server.
It's also instructive to experiment a bit by running a command like:
sudo strace mount -v :/export/junk -o addr=192.168.0.125 /mnt
in which one can see the system call:
mount(":/export/junk", "/mnt", "nfs", MS_MGC_VAL, "addr=192.168.0.125") = 0
However running the same command but dropping the option will result in:
sudo strace mount -v :/export/junk /mnt
mount(":/export/junk", "/mnt", "nfs", MS_MGC_VAL, NULL) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid
argument)
So I think we really do need this patch or something similar to it.
mount(8) doesn???t mention ???addr???. Do you have documentation about it?
This aspect of NFS is poorly documented. The best I found is a discussion at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28350912/nfs-mount-system-call-in-linux
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- Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages., John Darrington, 2016/11/13
- Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages., Ludovic Courtès, 2016/11/13
- Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages., John Darrington, 2016/11/13
- Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages., Ludovic Courtès, 2016/11/14
- Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages., John Darrington, 2016/11/14
- Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages., Ludovic Courtès, 2016/11/15
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