Lesson 5

Date: 2/19/2009
Network File System (NFS)
Linux for Engineering and IT Applications


NFSv3 Client Side

  • NFS clients mount directories exported to them from the NFS servers.
  • To verify that the server allows you to access its RPC (including NFS)
  • services, run
    /usr/bin/rpcinfo -p server_name
    
  • To check what directories it exports to you, run
  • /sbin/showmount -e server_name
    
  • For correct file locking, statd should be running on an NFS client.
  • They are started by scripts:
    /etc/init.d/portmap start
    /etc/init.d/nfs-common start
    

  • There are two kinds of mounts, we nominate them as:
    • Standard
      Automount



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