devcontainer on an NFS-mounted directory

[Karl Koscher (supersat)]

Is it possible to use a devcontainer with a repo checked out into an NFS-mounted directory? I have scoured the Internet for solutions but seemingly no one has brought this up.

The problem I run into is the local docker daemon runs as root, so when it goes to do a bind mount of the workspace, NFS says "permission denied" because root gets remapped to nobody by default. Enabling no_root_squash is not an option.

I suppose this might be possible if everyone sets up their own rootless docker daemon, but this laborious setup process almost defeats the point of devcontainers.