NFS support

[chiedo]

What is the likelihood of getting NFS support? Shared folders are extremely slow. With Vagrant, I would just use the following in my vagrant file and things worked like a charm.
config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant', nfs: true, :mount_options => ['actimeo=2']

Is there anything on the radar for getting the same kind of option for boot2docker?

Thanks,

[AntonioMeireles]

@chiedojohn fwiw and as a 'workaround' you can just try to use my vagrantified boot2docker which does just that ...

[chiedo]

Thanks @AntonioMeireles I will check that out. That could be a game changer. Things are running so slowly as it currently stands!

[joelwurtz]

You can use nfs inside boot2docker, it is just not documented

I have done the following steps in order to have nfs share on boot2docker :

• Share the nfs folder on your mac by adding it to your /etc/exports :

# /etc/exports
/Users 192.168.59.103 -alldirs -mapall=501:20

• Reload your nfs :

sudo nfsd restart

• Mount the volume on boot2docker

boot2docker ssh
sudo umount /Users
sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/nfs-client start
sudo mount -t nfs -o rw 192.168.59.3:/Users /Users

[chiedo]

Hey @joelwurtz,
Thanks for your suggestion. I'm having no luck though,

I am getting the following after attempting to mount the nfs on the client:
mount: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

And I did change 192.168.59.3 to my host IP address as assumed.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[chiedo]

Scratch that last statement. It looks like I wasn't supposed to change 192.168.59.3 to my host IP. Looks like it's working. Thanks for your help.

[chiedo]

Thanks again for all of your help.

I went ahead and wrote a quick tutorial for whoever else comes across this page on how to automate that process so it's automatically is configured each time boot2docker is started.

https://gist.github.com/chiedojohn/4d2cc894f53c3da1910c

[thaJeztah]

@chiedojohn perhaps you should create a pull request to add this as a document to the docs?

[chiedo]

@thaJeztah good call. The pull request has been submitted.