Re: NFS mounts

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello,

Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:

>> Indeed, the initrd would need an extra package, like this:
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm b/gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm
> ...
>
>> Can you try if it works?
>
> It compiles, and I can boot the new configuration without any trouble.
>
> Next, I added an NFS filesystem:
>
>       (file-system
>         (device "192.168.56.1:/home/hinsen")
>         (mount-point "/host/home/hinsen")
>         (create-mount-point? #t)
>         (type "nfs"))
>
> For "device" I put the string that I would also give to "mount" as an
> argument. That's perhaps completely wrong. After rebooting, I get the
> error message
>
>   No file system check procedure for 192.168.56.1:/home/hinsen; skipping
>
> So I added
>
>         (check? #f)
>
> to the file system specification. Another reboot, more error messages:
>
>   Service udev has been started.
>   failed to start service 'ncsd'
>   failed to start service 'guix-daemon'
>   ...
>
> plus many others. The only services that start are "udev" and
> "loopback".  I can't log in.

Could you test it in a VM, pass “console=ttyS0” as a kernel argument,
and “-serial stdio” so that we see all the messages on the console?

(You can do ‘guix system vm’ and then modify the command line that it
returns.)

> Configuration rollback is really nice BTW ;-)

Isn’t it?  :-)

Ludo’.