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Activates NFS on docker-machine
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[Question] Is there anything like this for Windows? #42

Closed artemgordinskiy closed 8 years ago

artemgordinskiy commented 8 years ago

Does anyone know if it's possible to use NFS/SMB shares on Windows to improve performance? Asking for a friend (a colleague, actually).

P.S. Sorry for abusing your issues.

tonivdv commented 8 years ago

Hey @ArtemGordinsky ,

No worries. Last time I checked NFS on windows was not that easy and out of the box :(

One dev I know who has a windows machine simply runs a real linux (read not boot2docker) and uses that box as dev environment. He even runs the IDE in there etc. But it requires the necessary amount of mem and disk space. But at least he can use natively docker.

Hope you can do something with that.

Cheers

artemgordinskiy commented 8 years ago

Thanks! I guess either Docker is not popular enough on Windows, or it doesn't bother Windows users enough to do something about its dreadful performance there.

tonivdv commented 8 years ago

You could find the answer maybe on the vagrant community. Because in the end it's not really related to docker, but more with virtualbox or other vm tool.

artemgordinskiy commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the tips! Looks like Vagrant has a nice NFS plugin we can use. Will look into replacing Docker Machine with Vagrant.

tonivdv commented 8 years ago

Not sure it will work out of the box either :(

Windows users: NFS folders do not work on Windows hosts. Vagrant will ignore your request for NFS synced folders on Windows.

artemgordinskiy commented 8 years ago

Yeah, turns out it's kind of a pain. In the end we simply recreated the Docker Machine with the VMWare Workstation driver which gave us performance, subjectively comparable to NFS on OS X. Seems to work pretty well for now :)