Mounting NFS

Stef Walter stefw at redhat.com
Wed Jan 15 14:33:58 UTC 2014


On 14.01.2014 17:34, Jan Safranek wrote:
> 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.

Interesting use cases for something like storaged to run along side
udisks ... Worth discussing.

Stef



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