NFS4 only servers for storage cannot be configured from interface

[_ED]

Hi,

I switched my storage server from NFS 2,3,4 to only NFS4, now no NFS is exposed with the RPCBind thing (used only with NFS 2,3 as far as i understand)
and my proxmox servers are not able anymore to access my share, i tried to remove under the storage section my server and to re-add it
but it fails,
i tried:

pvesm nfsscan 10.10.10.199
clnt_create: RPC: Program not registered
command '/sbin/showmount --no-headers --exports 10.10.10.199' failed: exit code 1

and here i believe the problem is that showmount only work with nfs2,3 but not with 4 because it uses RPCbind that is not used with NFS4
I believe one solution to this is to not run showmount when a user specifies NFS4 like here:
but instead just run the mount command right away.

is there also a dirty temporary fix to add a nfs share manually with some commands? (I could also try to replace /sbin/showmount with /bin/true or some crap like that)

 

[ermanishchawla]

Just mount the nfs using fstab file and use the is mountable flag in storage.cfg

 

[RobFantini]

Just mount the nfs using fstab file and use the is mountable flag in storage.cfg

how does one set the mountable flag in storage.cfg ?

 

[aaron]

The idea in this case would be to mount via the fstab or systemd, whatever you feel more comfortable with. Then create a directory storage on the mount point. Once you have the directory storage defined, open the /etc/pve/storage.cfg and add the following lines to the directory storage:

is_mountpoint 1
mkdir 0

These tell PVE that it should not create the directory if it does not exist and that it should wait until something is mounted there.

 

[ermanishchawla]

how does one set the mountable flag in storage.cfg ?

Something like this

dir: local
    path /var/lib/vz
    content snippets,backup,rootdir,vztmpl,images,iso
    maxfiles 0
    shared 1
    is_mountpoint 1
     mkdir 0

and /etc/fstab
You have following entry


<ip of nfs>: <shared directory> /var/lib/vz nfs rw,hard 0 0

 

[_ED]

i figured out it was the is_mountpoint flag and after trying a little bit i understood it works on the "dir" type storage, not the nfs one,
added to fstab and now it works thanks!

Anyway i think my problem will get more common in the years to come since RPC has a few security problems and distros might actually default to nfs4 only that is pretty mature now (a part from ACLs...) so i think this might need to be adressed in the future, thanks!

P.S. looking forward to try the new proxmox backup thing as soon as i have some spare time

 

[ixproxmox]

Just a note that the problem still seems to be here. Had to downgrade to nfsv3 to get NFS working.