July 5, 20233 yr Here is the problem I am having: I have 2 shares, Share1 and Share2. Share1 is mounted in the NFS client while Share 2 is not. I wanted symlinks to work between NFS shares (ie. a symlink in Share1 linking to folders in Share2). I do not want to mount Share2 in the NFS client, so relative symlinks to Share2 don't work (I'll go into more detail about this later down below). CIFS/SMB clients do not have this issue with symlinks, so a symlink in Share1 linking to files in Share2 does in fact work. I prefer to continue using NFS if possible since the client is linux based. To my understanding, I'll never be able to get a symlink to work unless I mount Share2 in the NFS client, so is there an alternative solution to this that doesn't use symlinks? Is there any way for Share1 to link to files in Share2 without mounting Share2 (for NFS clients). For additional context: I am mounting these shares into a Proxmox host, so the only way to mount NFS/SMB shares is via the Storage tab or command line (I do not know how mounting NFS/SMB shares via command line will break future Proxmox upgrades or how it will show up in the Storage tab so I do not want to do this through command line) Mounting NFS/SMB shares via the Storage tab will create additional folders in the share that I cannot delete, so I am alright with this in Share1 but not ok with this in Share2. Currently my workaround is to use a SMB share, since SMB is able to resolve these symlinks without any issues. I'd prefer to use NFS if there is an actual solution to this.
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