[Users] VPS on NFS?

[Mailinglisten]

Am 26.01.2009 um 15:57 schrieb Thomas Rasch:
> I currently try to run a VPS from a NFS share, but I have some  
> problems. First, when I try to enter a newly created VE (Gentoo,  
> btw.), it fails:
>
> test1 dev # vzctl enter 101
> enter into VE 101 failed
> Unable to open pty: No such device
>
> When I copy this same VPS from the NFS server to a local disk and  
> start it from there, it works as it should:
>
> test1 dev # vzctl enter 101
> entered into VE 101
>
> I already tried all the hints from the mailing list that I could  
> find, i.e. running MAKEDEV to recreate missing devices, but the only  
> command that actually works is
>
> # vzctl exec 101 mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
>
> After that, I can enter into the VE. It does not work when I put  
> this line into /etc/fstab and restart the VE:
> none /dev/pts      devpts   mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
>
> Same as above...
>
Actually, I found this one out myself in the meantime - installing  
udev solves the problem... :/

> Also, when I mount devpts and enter the VE, "df" does not work:
> test / # df -h
> df: `/': No such device
> df: `/usr/portage': No such device
> df: no file systems processed


That one still exists and is probably more anoying. The same  
underlying problem prevents for example newer versions of portage to  
emerge packages ("/usr/portage/distfiles - No such device").

Thomas