On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:42:45AM -0400, Fbsd8 typed: > Ruben de Groot wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 08:36:04AM -0400, Fbsd8 typed: > >>Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>>>>Many thanks in advance. > >>>>> > >>>>Quick answer is "No, NFS only runs on the host system". > >>>> > >>>but user space nfsd works. in ports - unfsd > >>> > >>> > >>Close but no cigar. > >> > >>In the ports system it's named unfs3 and described as > >> > >>UNFS3 is a user-space implementation of the NFSv3 server specification. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >>It provides a daemon for the MOUNT and NFS protocols, which are used by > > ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ > >>NFS clients for accessing files on the server. > >> http://unfs3.sourceforge.net/ > >> > >>Now here is the KEY. No where does it say it has the "server" side > >>function, only the client side. > > > >It sais so very clearly. > > > >Ruben > > > > > What you say: Just 2 words further on in that sentence "used by NFS > clients". > > Read as unfs3 is run as client to access kernel nfs on host.
No you read wrong. It is a userspace daemon that provides nfs service. It is a daemon. Not a client. > No where in any documentation on unfs3 does it ever say unfs3 has to be > run on both client and service side. Because it is not a client. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
