How to mount network storage into podman rootless container?

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I tried using NFS because I know it well, and it is easy to do using ZFS. This Red Hat blog post says NFS should work and it does not work at the same time. I decided to just try. The ZFS server has no idea about the subuids on the podman host, so I had to mess around with --uidmap and --gidmap. That worked, as long as I did not use a pod. To keep things neat and simple, I tried to put all my Nextcloud containers into one pod. However, the id-mapping features cannot map multiple container IDs to the same host IDs. So, I cannot map the www-data (70) user and the postgres (82) user to localadmin (1000) on the podman host. Next, I tried directly mounting the NFS share as a volume using the '--opt type=nfs4' option when creating the volumes. Right away, I learned that rootless containers can't mount network shares. Makes a certain kind of sense and is also documented in the man page. But I first tried using root containers, to prove out the concept. The volumes mounted without complaint, but I landed back at square one because the id-mapping is not applied anywhere now. Appears to me that, NFS is a complete dud for this kind of application.

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