Difference between revisions of "Redhat:NFS Server"

Latest revision as of 15:22, 22 August 2013

NFS is used to share files and printers on a directory between Linux or Unix systems.

NFS v4 is the default on RHEL6, but RHEL will also support NFS v2 and v3. The differences are cover the communication and file sizes.

There is a group provides through yum to install of the needed packages:

yum groupinstall "NFS file server"

If you are using NFS v2 or v3, then s few extra packages will be required:

/etc/init.d/rpcbind start
/etc/init.d/nfs start

The NFS service scripts are:

There are four mount commands related to nfs:

mount.nfs
mount.nfs4
unmount.nfs
unmount.nfs4

There are a large number of commands provided by the installed NFS packages. The most used ones are covered here:

manage shared directories in the exports file

io stats for mount points

client / server stats for mount points

list all nfs directories

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 === exportfs ===
+manage shared directories in the exports file
 === nfsiostat ===
+io stats for mount points
 === nfsstat ===
+client / server stats for mount points
 === showmount ===
+list all nfs directories