[plug] NFS

[Andrew Howell]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 23:15, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > I've never touched NFS or LDAP yet .. will do in a few weeks.  Are there any 
> > particularly good documents anyone suggests I read regarding LDAP in
> > particular, but NFS also?  Will the standard howtos be enough to get me going?
> 
> NFS is honestly pretty easy.
> 
> apt-get install nfs-user-server nfs-client nfs-common
> man /etc/exports
> vi /etc/exports
> /etc/init.d/nfs-user-server restart
> mount -t nfs localhost:/nfstestdir /mnt/test

You really should use the kernel nfs server instead. It's significantly
better than the user space one.

>From the package description of nfs-user-server

" Unlike other NFS daemons, this NFS server runs entirely in user
space.  This makes it a tad slower than other NFS implementations, and
also introduces some awkwardnesses in the semantics (for instance,
moving a file to a different directory will render its file handle
invalid).
 .
 There is currently no support for file locking."



Just compile in the kernel nfs stuff and install nfs-kernel-server

Andrew

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