add mount.cifs #571

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:11Z

Issue by epipho
Thursday May 08, 2014 at 16:45 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/coreos/coreos-overlay/issues/595

For those of us that need to share files with a windows host.

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:11Z

Comment by cnelson
Thursday May 22, 2014 at 18:41 GMT

Agreed. The kernel module is in the OS, but not the mount tool. Very helpful for vagrant users on windows

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:12Z

Comment by brianredbeard
Friday May 23, 2014 at 03:04 GMT

After a bit of research in order to get mount.cifs, we'll need to add cifs-utils, to add cifs-utils, we'll need all of Samba (I think you can see where this is going). Unfortunately (at this time, never say never) we aren't ready to give that mouse that cookie.

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:13Z

Comment by cnelson
Friday May 23, 2014 at 14:46 GMT

Are you sure about that? Seems to run ok for me with zero deps:

Build cifs-utils in a container and copy it into /tmp on the host.

$ docker run -t -i -v /tmp:/host_tmp fedora /bin/bash

# yum groupinstall -y "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"
# yum install -y bzip2
# curl http://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/cifs-utils-6.3.tar.bz2 | bunzip2 -c - | tar -xvf -
# cd cifs-utils-6.3/
# ./configure && make
# cp mount.cifs /host_tmp/
# exit

Works fine!

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/foo
$ sudo /tmp/mount.cifs //198.51.100.23/foo /mnt/foo -oguest
$ mount | grep /mnt/foo

//198.51.100.23/foo on /mnt/foo type cifs (rw,relatime,vers=1.0,cache=strict,domain=TEST,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=198.51.100.23,unix,posixpaths,serverino,acl,rsize=1048576,wsize=65536,actimeo=1)

lib requirements

$ ldd /tmp/mount.cifs 
    linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffe09fe000)
    libcap.so.2 => /lib64/libcap.so.2 (0x00007fb55c5ec000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb55c23f000)
    libattr.so.1 => /lib64/libattr.so.1 (0x00007fb55c039000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb55c7f2000)

If you still don't want to include it because of bloat (totally understandable), at least there's a recipe for folks who want to build it themselves :)

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:14Z

Comment by euskadi31
Tuesday Jan 13, 2015 at 12:55 GMT

👍

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:14Z

Comment by StephenOTT
Thursday Jan 22, 2015 at 00:46 GMT

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crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:15Z

Comment by sylus
Thursday Jan 22, 2015 at 00:46 GMT

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crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:16Z

Comment by sylus
Thursday Jan 22, 2015 at 18:28 GMT

Currently Azure with its "Azure File Service" only supports SMB with CIFS so in order to get a shared mount with CoreOS this will be needed.

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:17Z

Comment by saschagottfried
Saturday Jan 24, 2015 at 13:17 GMT

Exactly, cifs-utils >= 6.0 is required to connect using SMB version 2.1. Managed the mount to "Azure File Service" this week using Ubuntu 14.04.1 that ships with a recent version. Found this issue while my investigation if CoreOS provides this requirement.

$ sudo dpkg -p cifs-utils

Package: cifs-utils
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Installed-Size: 256
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2:6.0-1ubuntu2
Replaces: smbfs (<< 2:4.0~rc1-1)
Depends: samba-common, libc6 (>= 2.17), libkeyutils1, libkrb5-3 (>= 1.10+dfsg~), libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213), libwbclient0 (>= 2:3.6.0~pre3)

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:17Z

Comment by euskadi31
Thursday Jan 29, 2015 at 16:46 GMT

1844c45c4d98 / # USE="net-fs/samba -server" emerge -av net-fs/cifs-utils

[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/keyutils-1.5.9-r1  USE="{-test}" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" 
[ebuild  NS   ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.2-r2 [4.1.2-r6]
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/libcap-ng-0.7.4  USE="-python -static-libs" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 -python3_4" 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/iniparser-3.1-r1  USE="-doc -examples -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libev-4.15-r1  USE="-static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libverto-0.2.5-r1  USE="libev threads -glib -libevent -static-libs -tevent" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/talloc-2.1.0-r1  USE="python -compat" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/tdb-1.3.0-r1  USE="-python" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 
[ebuild  N    ] app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.13  USE="keyutils pkinit threads -doc -openldap (-selinux) {-test} -xinetd" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" 
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/krb5-0-r1  ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/tevent-0.9.21-r1  USE="-python" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 
[ebuild  N    ] net-fs/cifs-utils-6.1-r1  USE="acl ads caps caps-ng -creds" 
[ebuild  N    ] net-fs/samba-3.6.24  USE="acl aio client netapi pam readline smbclient winbind -addns -ads -avahi -caps -cluster -cups -debug -dmapi -doc -examples -fam -ldap -ldb -quota (-selinux) -server -smbsharemodes -swat -syslog" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)"

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:18Z

Comment by IbnSaeed
Sunday Mar 01, 2015 at 14:07 GMT

any update ?

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:19Z

Comment by IbnSaeed
Sunday Mar 01, 2015 at 14:12 GMT

Can someon list the steps needed to run cfutils on ubuntu or debian ?

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:20Z

Comment by carpenike
Sunday May 31, 2015 at 15:43 GMT

So I've got the mount.cifs file created and it works manually. As far as I'm aware, I cannot use a units file to mount the CIFS share ala http://blog.scottlowe.org/2015/02/20/config-mount-nfs-coreos/, as I don't have the mount.cifs binary in /sbin, right?

Can I use a service file to auto mount at boot? Any other recommendations?

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:20Z

Comment by djmaze
Sunday May 31, 2015 at 22:51 GMT

@carpenike: Yes, you should probably use a one-shot service which fetches (if not present) and runs mount.cifs. At least that's what I am doing. (Consider running a docker container for getting the binary, as explained above).

To start on boot, you need to setAfter=network.target in the Unit section and WantedBy=multi-user.target in the Install section.

If the mount is needed by one or more particular services, you might as well do the mount on demand. Just add a Requires and an After with the mount service in the depending service(s).

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:21Z

Comment by carpenike
Sunday May 31, 2015 at 23:43 GMT

Do you have a service file already? I tried getting one working earlier and will post it when I get home if you don't.

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@carpenikehttps://github.com/carpenike: Yes, you should probably use a one-shot service which fetches (if not present) and runs mount.cifs. At least that's what I am doing.

To start on boot, you need to setAfter=network.target in the Unit section and WantedBy=multi-user.target in the Install section.

If the mount is needed by one or more particular services, you might as well do the mount on demand. Just add a Requires and an After with the mount service in the depending service(s).

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crawford · 2015-09-23T19:00:22Z

Comment by carpenike
Monday Jun 01, 2015 at 02:42 GMT

Excellent... this seems to work. Any tweaks recommended? How can I get the service to download the mount.cifs file at startup?

[Unit]
Description=Mount Share service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
TimeoutStartSec=0
ExecStart=/home/core/bin/mount.cifs //10.9.18.10/share /mnt/share -o username=administrator,domain=storage,password=password,uid=0,gid=0

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:01:22Z

Comment by djmaze
Saturday Jun 06, 2015 at 12:06 GMT

@carpenike: You can run a docker image in ExecStartPre to get you the mount.cifs binary. I found this one. The following copies the binary to /opt/bin:

ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/docker run -v /opt/bin:/target sigma/mount.cifs-copy /target

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:01:23Z

Comment by cusspvz
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015 at 13:08 GMT

+1 for including CIFS on releases.

Hacks are nasty and decrease system stability

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:01:24Z

Comment by so0k
Thursday Jul 09, 2015 at 14:33 GMT

@djmaze The sigma/mount.cifs_copy image is 1.1GB, I've reduced it to 5MB in so0k/mount.cifs_copy

crawford · 2015-09-23T19:01:24Z

Comment by djmaze
Thursday Jul 09, 2015 at 14:43 GMT

@so0k: Cool stuff!

sepiroth887 · 2015-11-24T18:21:33Z

btw, the binary from ubuntu:14.04 cifs-utils (mount.cifs) is compatible with coreOS. I started out using the mount.cifs_copy image but later just tried it and it works just fine.

Using it for really simple use cases so not sure whether all features have the required libraries.
Tested on 766.(3-5).0

jotunskij · 2016-03-24T07:28:18Z

+1

If you want to use Azure with CoreOS, this is probably a requirement.

phagunbaya · 2016-05-09T11:27:45Z

+1

bobintornado · 2016-05-12T09:18:56Z

+1

Since the kernel is already supporting CIFS since release 899.1.0 (also CEPH, NFS and 9P), I think it make senses to add in the support from the tooling side.

Plus it's a must to have to run a CoreOS Kubernete cluster on Azure.

edevil · 2016-06-19T19:50:24Z

I'm also interested in mounting Azure shares on my CoreOS kubernetes nodes.

monaka · 2016-07-11T04:06:45Z

Off topic: @edevil I found an hacky workaround against this issue and tried to run K8s nodes. But there have the another issue. You must apply a patch to K8s if you want to use Azure File.

monaka · 2016-07-11T05:43:27Z

I put the workaround on https://gist.github.com/monaka/5cb1f33e5317e29285843f158a387c9b .
This will enable to execute "mount -tcifs" (So you're close to azureFile volumes on K8s).
Hope some helps.

jcrowthe · 2017-03-31T23:19:44Z

@monaka Any update to this issue? I am exploring using Azure File storage with CoreOS, which still requires SMB support.

monaka · 2017-04-01T01:19:29Z

@jcrowthe The issue was fixed if you want to use CIFS on K8s (Hyperkube).
See kubernetes/kubernetes@3aaf0a8

And the workaround I posted above will work (probably).

veeresh1982 · 2017-10-16T23:00:34Z

Is they any plan/ETA to get mount.cifs installed on coreos ?

rasmus · 2017-12-28T18:40:09Z

Would really like to get get an ETA/no-go on this one? A "priority/P1" from two years ago doesn't really bode well.

dtretyakov · 2018-01-25T10:36:33Z

@crawford, it's really valuable when using CoreOS in Azure to be able to mount Azure File Shares to the host.

What problem prevents adding cifs-utils into CoreOS distributions?

r7vme · 2018-07-18T17:34:12Z

Good evening.

Just adding huge +1 to have mount.cifs in CoreOS.

I think this now affects many people that run CoreOS + Kubernetes on Azure and will be using Azure File backend.

Workarounds with putting mount.cifs into /opt/bin does not work, becuase Kubernetes uses mount -t cifs. By default mount will look only in /sbin for helpers. In CoreOS /sbin is read-only, which makes impossible to make mount -t cifs work.

To test that this is the case, i did following hack:

mkdir /sbin2
cp -a /sbin/* /sbin2
# remove symlink
rm -r /sbin
mv /sbin2 /sbin
# Copy mount.cifs binary from kubelet container
docker cp k8s-kubelet.service:/sbin/mount.cifs /sbin

ppettina · 2018-08-15T10:44:46Z

Two PRs have been made to address this issue.
Is there anything particular preventing them being reviewed?
+1 for adding mount.cifs

crawford added the wontfix label Sep 23, 2015

crawford added kind/friction component/distro team/os priority/P1 and removed reviewed/won't fix labels Oct 19, 2015

colrack mentioned this issue Mar 20, 2016

Provide support to attach a vhd as volume on Microsoft Azure kubernetes/kubernetes#23259

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shanoor mentioned this issue Jul 19, 2016

azurefile is not working properly on CoreOS Azure/azurefile-dockervolumedriver#31

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jpoon mentioned this issue Aug 17, 2016

Mounting AFS volume fails on CoreOS kubernetes/kubernetes#30769

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crawford added the area/usability label Apr 17, 2017

bgilbert marked this as a duplicate of #1384 Jul 22, 2017

bgilbert mentioned this issue Jul 22, 2017

smb/cifs tools? #1384

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r7vme mentioned this issue Jul 18, 2018

Azure File fails to be mounted on CoreOS kubernetes/kubernetes#66346

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This was referenced Jul 26, 2018

bump(net-fs/cifs-utils): sync with upstream coreos/portage-stable#683

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coreos-base/coreos: add cifs-utils to base image coreos/coreos-overlay#3344

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dm0- closed this as completed in coreos/coreos-overlay#3344 Aug 17, 2018

fsniper mentioned this issue Jan 3, 2019

mount.cifs is not provided in CoreOS 1745 gardener/gardener#627

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Build cifs-utils in a container and copy it into /tmp on the host.

Works fine!

lib requirements

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