James, Glad you were able to get most of this figured out. We could possibly look at adding support for nfsd sometime later in the cycle again if there was enough demand for it. It may require a kernel module.
Can you tell me what Linux distribution your build system is running? Someone else reported a problem with building zabbix too. I have not seen any issues on Fedora or CentOS builds. It's a small binary but does nothing if you're not using the zabbix monitoring system. Because it's small, I made it a default build option. You certainly won't break anything by disabling it in the 'make menuconfig' step. Darrick On 12/29/2009 09:59 PM, James F. Babiak wrote: > Thanks for the information. Did it ever officially support being > utilized as an NFS server? I imagine since there is some legacy, albeit > broken, nfsd stuff still present that at one time it would have > supported it. Especially since there are NFS_EXPORT variables to define > what you want to share. Though like I said earlier, I couldn't find > anything in the svn repository going back to 0.4 that directly supported > it. And based on the included nfsd init scripts, assume it wasn't a > kernel module. > > In any case, I was able to setup a build environment for my via system > and built the 0.7 branch including samba support. Outside of having to > install about two dozen packages to get it working (and having issues > with 'at' and 'zabbix' for some reason, and being forced to exclude them > in the end), got everything working. Not wanting to mess with loading a > new full custom image right away, I copied over the smbd, nmbd and samba > client utilities and wrote up an smbd.conf file for my existing beta 0.7 > system. A few tweaks and I got everything up and running. Was able to > successfully share /mnt/usb with read/write access. Transfered over a > 700MB file at about 4.5MBps. Not too shabby for samba. So now I can have > my astlinux box serve as a NAS device too! > > -James > Darrick Hartman wrote: >> On 12/28/2009 11:51 AM, James Babiak wrote: >> >>> Hey Everyone, >>> >>> I'm new to the mailing list, and had a question that hopefully someone >>> can help me with. I'm using the beta version of Astlinux 0.7, and am >>> trying to setup nfsd to export a share. Basically, I want to try to get >>> the box to be a NAS server of sorts. I have a USB drive attached and >>> it's mounted on /mnt/usb. I actually ran into issues getting it to >>> automount on reboots. Reading other messages on this list I found the >>> only successful way to get this to work was by appending a mount command >>> to the end of /etc/rc. Any other method, via fstab or mouting it in >>> /etc/rc with the rest of the filesystem, failed. But that problem has >>> been solved. My only remaing issue is getting nfsd working properly. >>> I ran into a few problems even figuring out how to get nfsd started. I >>> found that I had to load it as a kernel module, as there was no >>> userspace nfsd. In fact, I don't see anything in the filesystem for nfs >>> outside of a kernel module, and an invalid init.d script. I say invalid >>> because /etc/init.d/nfsd uses nfsd,mountd,lockd and portmap to start, >>> but those are not present in the filesystem. I didn't see any >>> nfs-kernel-server start-up script. I setup the variables for rc.conf in >>> /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/nfs.conf for: >>> >>> NFS_EXPORTS_RW="/mnt/usb" >>> NFS_EXPORTS_RO="/mnt/kd" >>> >>> (the usb one being the one I care about, and adding the kd one since it >>> wasn't working without a RO line and I thought maybe it needed one too?) >>> and this appends to /etc/rc.conf as well as creating the /etc/exports >>> file with: >>> >>> /mnt/kd 172.20.0.0/24(ro,no_root_squash,sync) >>> <http://172.20.0.0/24(ro,no_root_squash,sync)> >>> /mnt/usb 172.20.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync) >>> <http://172.20.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync)> >>> >>> in it. So far so good. However, nothing I do manually will get it >>> working. When I load (manually or automatically) the nfsd kernel module, >>> I get: >>> >>> nfs 216360 0 >>> nfs_acl 2624 1 nfs >>> lockd 53832 1 nfs >>> sunrpc 162876 5 nfs,nfs_acl,lockd >>> >>> all loaded. I've never really messed with nfs-kernel-server, so I read >>> up on it. I see there are commands to push export changes out, but don't >>> see anything installed that will do it. >>> >>> Reading up on other people's nfs work with Astlinux on the mailing list >>> in the past, it seems like others have gotten it working. I thought >>> maybe the beta, or current, release was lacking something, so I svn'd >>> the entire trunk and all branches out of the repository to see if I am >>> missing something, or can enable something in a custom image. But as far >>> as I can tell, there was never any apps available for nfsd, at least >>> since 0.4. So I'm not sure how /etc/init.d/nfsd ever worked. >>> >>> Am I missing something, or has anyone else had any success doing what I >>> am trying to do? I've gotten everything else working except for the nfs >>> stuff, and would really like to get that up and running too. Worst case >>> scenario, I see there seems to be a samba server available in the trunk, >>> so I might have to play with that. >>> >>> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! >>> >>> -James >>> >> >> AstLinux is not designed to be an nfs server. 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