[Ms-nfs41-client-devel] WSL: Use ms-nfs41-client on WSL Linux?

[Martin Wege]

Thanks Cedric!

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 7:18 AM Cedric Blancher
<cedric.blancher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 at 14:13, Martin Wege <martin.l.wege@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > How can I use ms-nfs41-client from a WSL Linux?
>
> WSL does not mount anything except C: at boot time.
>
> So you need to do a manual mount inside WSL.
>
> Example 1, using drive letter N:
> First mount NFS share in Windows's Cygwin terminal:
> /sbin/nfs_mount  -o rw "N" nfs://31.48.17.20//lab/lab14/rundata/
>
> Within WSL then mount Windows drive 'N':
> mkdir /mnt/n
> mount -t drvfs N: /mnt/n
>
>
> Example 2, using UNC path:
> /sbin/nfs_mount -o rw nfs://31.48.17.20//lab/lab14/rundata/
>
> Within WSL then mount Windows drive
> mkdir /mnt/rundata
> mount -t drvfs '\\31.48.17.20@2049\nfs4\lab\lab14\rundata' /mnt/rundata
>
> Just calling /sbin/nfs_mount without arguments will print you the UNC
> path for each mount.
>
> > Is this supported?
>
> Yes, this is supported in the upcoming release of ms-nfs41-client,
> with some limitations:
> - Win32 QueryInformation types FileStatInformation (68) and
> FileStatLxInformation (70) are not yet implemented, so uid/gid/mode
> available in Cygwin are not available in WSL yet
> - softlinks do not work (EPERM), likely because WSL probes
> FileStatInformation&FileStatLxInformation at start, gets
> STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED and then treats it like a FAT drive.
>
> Ced
> --
> Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>
> [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/]
> Institute Pasteur
>
>
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