Just bought a used Dell R720XD with dual Intel Xeon E5-4650 and 64GB RAM for my HomeLab and install Proxmox as PVE with ZFS native for OS root file system and storage (2 x 4TB WD Red + SSD as ZFS cache, log). Detail explain how to config and setup, I am going to write in another post.

I choose ClearLinux as guest VM as I like the lightweight and stateless feature that ClearLinux offers, so system is very clean, easily to backup/restore.

As ClearLinux VM is the main machine for my development, I need to use PC (running Hackintosh Catalina) to able to modify in VSCode and see the build result in filesystem, thus I need to setup NFS server in ClearLinux OS to share home folder /home/bacnh to NFS client.

NFS Server Configuration

I am running latest ClearLinux OS version 32700 at time of writing with local IP: 192.168.11.20

Distribution:      Clear Linux OS
Installed version: 32700
Version URL:       https://cdn.download.clearlinux.org/update
Content URL:       https://cdn.download.clearlinux.org/update```

Install nfs-utils bundle which included rpcbind and nfs-utils package.

sudo swupd bundle-add nfs-utils

Enable and start rpcbind, nfs-server service, however nfs-server may be failed to start as missing /etc/exports configuration.

sudo systemctl enable rpcbind
sudo systemctl enable nfs-server

sudo systemctl start rpcbind
sudo systemctl start nfs-server

Configure NFS Share

Edit the configuration /etc/exports:

cat /etc/exports 
/home/bacnh   192.168.11.0/24(rw,all_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000)

There are few important notes here:

  • 192.168.11.0/24 – as my subnet is 192.168.11.x, this will allow only client at local can access to NFS share. Mainly used for my MBP and my PC. You can increase security by indicating sepcific your machine IP, so other can't access into your NFS share.
  • rw - able to read/write the file system
  • all_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000 -->uid, gid of the home account in the mentioned NFS share. In my case, uid=1000, gid=1000.

Then you must update to current NFS server running and start nfs-server.

sudo exportfs -arv
exporting 192.168.11.0/24:/home/bacnh

sudo systemctl start nfs-server

By default nfsv4 server is running inside ClearLinux OS at port 2049. If you are using Firewall, you need to open port 2049.

rpcinfo -p | grep nfs
    100003    3   tcp   2049  nfs
    100003    4   tcp   2049  nfs

As NFS client is build in MacOS, you can check with showmount command:

showmount -e 192.168.11.20 
Export list for 192.168.11.20:
/home/bacnh 192.168.11.0/24

NFS Client Configuration

OpenWrt Client

As I usually remote directly to my router which is running OpenWrt  to do some testing.

First, install needed NFS kernel modules:

opkg update
opkg install nfs-utils kmod-fs-nfs kmod-fs-nfs-v4 kmod-fs-nfs-v3

Then mount the NFS share to /mnt/bacnh

mkdir /mnt/bacnh
mount -t nfs4 192.168.11.20:/home/bacnh /mnt/bacnh

Then happy using NFS share.

MacOS Catalina - NFS Client

Just to mount the nfs share into home_bacnh folder. Option resvport is needed, otherwise you will get Operation not permitted error. 

cd ~/home_bacnh
sudo mount -t nfs -o resvport,rw 192.168.11.20:/home/bacnh home_bacnh

Now I can open bacnh NFS share folder inside home folder and starting use VSCode to modify my HomeLab configuration.

NFS Share access inside MBP Home folder

By using mount command, I can access my NFS share from any client inside my local network.

Good luck!