Adding NFS storage to FreeNas

[Jérôme HAUTBOIS]

We use a FreeNas storage server, essentially as a FTP server. There is no free left space on the local hard disks. So we'd like to use a external NFS share (from a Panasas system) as a volume managed with FreeNas.
We have no problem to mount the NFS share on the server (for the moment, I used the /etc/fstab with /mnt/nfs as mount point. On this forum, it seems it's a bad idea to use this method. But don't know why...) But I don't know how to use it. If I set a user with /mnt/nfs/<user> as home directory, I have an error "The path must reside within a volume mount point"

What's the good way to do what I want ?

Thanks for your help

 

[depasseg]

try mounting it inside an existing dataset folder.
And my guess is that freenas will not save changes to the /etc/fstab after a reboot. But it's only a guess and worth testing.

 

[Jérôme HAUTBOIS]

The actual volume is mounted on /mnt/hdd
So i tried your solution, make my NFS mount on /mnt/hdd/nfs
But I can't (at least with the Web GUI) create a DataSet in /mnt/hdd/nfs (only in /mnt/hdd)
I can set my home dir to /mnt/hdd/nfs/<user>, but it doesn't create the <user> subfolder. So, of course, FTP fail
Maybe it could be possible by creating it manually, but it's very uncomfortable.