Mounting NFS

Jan Safranek jsafrane at redhat.com
Tue Jan 14 16:34:54 UTC 2014


On 01/14/2014 12:49 PM, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> I'm curious if and how Cockpit handles mounting of NFS/CIFS and other
>> non-device stuff. AFAIK UDisks2 supports only mounting of block
>> devices.  Do I miss something?
> 
> Cockpit doesn't handle NFS at all right now, but I am sure it will.
> Indeed, I think that's a good candidate for the first proper
> multi-machine scenario: Mount a filesystem on some other machine instead
> of locally.

I know there exists 'libmount' created by mount maintainer, there is no
D-Bus service for it though. So some development effort is needed :-(.

And it might be useful consider also local non-device filesystems, e.g.
someone might be interested in an alert when /tmp (=tmpfs) runs out of
space.

Jan



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