sharing datasets with NFS

[Yell]

I have a single Raidz2 with the following setup

Pool and datasets have permissions nobody:nobody (775).

Code:

Volume	 	 	 Path
datapool	 	 	 /mnt/datapool
datapool/Anime	 /mnt/datapool/Anime
datapool/Stuff	 /mnt/datapool/Stuff

Chown'ed the directoy's to nobody:nobody

Code:

drwxrwxr-x   32 nobody  nobody   33 Oct 27 22:05 Anime
drwxrwxr-x  247 nobody  nobody  247 Oct 27 22:26 Stuff

I also created a nfs share for the pool and it's child dataset with option "All Directories" and Mapall to nobody.


Problem:
When i mount the "datapool" with nfs, i'm unable to read/write in the child datasets. (shows owner root).

Is it possible that the dataset are treaded like filesystems? (as far as i know, nfs cannot jump across filesystem boundaries )

 

[jgreco]

Yes, datasets are treated (for the purposes of this discussion) as separate filesystems by ZFS. It's part of the point of them.

 

[Yell]

Do i have any other option for a single client connection point other than:

1) using CIFS
2) moving data from the datasets to the pool, and mount this with nfs

 

[jgreco]

3) Mount the datasets via NFS, which I believe is the usual solution. I realize it isn't a "single client connection point" in that case. I'm not sure using CIFS necessarily fixes it, by the way, I haven't tried cross-mountpoint CIFS so it might or might not work.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

* sftp / ftp mounting would be a possible solution

 

[Yell]

well i ended up using rsync over ssh, with the downside i cant browse directorys.

Btw grsync is a nice GUI frontend.