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Is there a way I can mount an NTFS filesystem on CoreOS?
I can't install ntfs-3g on CoreOS itself. I can create a docker image that has ntfs-3g installed and I can mount my NTFS drive within a docker container. However, I can't seem to find a way to make the mounted filesystem available anywhere other than in the container that mounted it.
It looks like the problem is that I am mounting with fuse. As per the below thread, it doesn't look like it is possible to get a fuse mount point out of a container: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/docker-dev/_8bAG561VAI
I solved my problem by creating an NFS share within the mounting container and using that.
If you run the container with the --privileged flag and bind mount it back to the host it can be made available to other containers:
First spawn the container as follows:
$ docker run --privileged -v /mnt:/data NTFSContainer
Then mount the device into /data inside the container
Now the files will be exposed to the underlying host and can be shared into other containers as well.
