Windows engine does not support a volume with NFS

[ekitagawa]

File: engine/reference/commandline/volume_create.md

"Edit This Page" doesn't allow me to update for some reason, so I will state it here.

Could we change it from:

The built-in local driver on Windows does not support any options.

To something like this:

The built-in local driver on Windows does not support any options; therefore, Windows engine
cannot create a volume mapped to NFS drive. Use of smb and bind mount is recommended
instead.
For hosts running on Azure or AWS, CloudStor plugin can provide connections to persistent storage.

Reasoning:

Because options are not supported on Windows engine with volume create, it cannot pass url and credential for NFS connection. Also, NFS client on Windows does not support NFS ver 4 (which makes up majority of installations) too. We should document this as limitation until feature will be added.

kubernetes/kubernetes#56188

smb is recommended here too
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-containers/container-storage#smb-mounts

Closing this ticket due to its age, and the impending refactor. If you think this is in error, feel free to reopen. Thanks!

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