Original NFS version The implementation details are defined in RFC 1094. Sun used version 1 only for in-house experimental purposes. When the development team added substantial changes to NFS version 1 and released it outside of Sun, they decided to release the new version as v2, so that version ...
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Keeping Files Synced Across Two Servers
I have setup a web server running nginx and another server running php-fpm on Linode VMs. Nginx proxies all PHP requests off to the PHP backend and this works great.
The problem, is that the actual ...
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Can I put /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow on an NFS share?
OK, this may be a dumb question but I'm wondering if I can export /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow from an NFS server and mount those files over the local ones on the client machine. The goal ...
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Disk Utility NFS mounts broken in 10.7.3? [migrated]
My NFS mounts no longer function in Lion 10.7.3. Although all the mounts in Disk Utility verify OK, no files can be seen in the mountpoints. I can use NFS Manager successfully however.
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Managing user and group information for a lab using Linux and /home mounted from a data node
Our lab consists of multiple desktop machines and a data node, all running Ubuntu Linux. The desktop machines mount /home from the data node. Files and users in /home are managed using UIDs and GIDs ...
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Why does a file on an NFS mount seem to cache randomly, but no longer be cached when running `ls`?
Here's the mount configuration of an NFS mount, we'll call it server2, gotten from running cat /etc/mtab:
<ip1>:/mnt/fs101 /mnt/fs101 nfs ...
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How to setup WIndows 2008 as a NFS server for clonezilla
This sounded like an easy task to me, use clonezilla to image a laptop to a windows 2008 R2 NFS server.
I got the clonezilla Live CD to boot on the Laptop. I got into the command line. I was able ...
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Is it possible to limit Samba (or entire LAN) speed?
I've a problem with a mini server (Via epia c3 1ghz): when there is too much LAN traffic (in particular Samba or NFS files moves) the server reboots and continue to reboot until I unplug the LAN cable ...
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Why has NFS suddenly started performing abysmally in FreeNAS 8
I've been using ESXi 5.0 quite successfully with my datastore provided by NFS share on FreeNAS 8. All of a sudden i'm experiencing terrible performance.
I've ruled out some things:
Hardware (FreeNAS ...
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Windows 2008 NFS, find command not working recursively on unix client
I have a Windows 2008 Storage server configured for NFS service. I am using a FreeBSD client to mount share from the storage server. Every thing works fine like copying, deleting files etc. However, ...
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How to change NFS export allowed IP addresses on Mac OS X Server (Tiger)?
I am running NFS on a Mac OS X Server 10.4. I had originally set up the NFS exports in the GUI, and restricted the IP addresses in the GUI to which it can export.
Right now, I only have command-line ...
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Is NFS caching suitable for caching large files (200kb to 50mb?)
I have a 1TB disk on one server that 4 other servers frequently access via NFS to distribute the files over HTTP. I'm seeing a high load on the central server and want to cache these files on the ...
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NFS Mount Options on Solaris 10
I need to be able to mount an NFS file system on Solaris 10 using the equivalent of the nolock mount option. From what I can see this mount option is not available on Solaris (looks like its a Linux ...
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Lots of nfs4_reclaim_open_state: Lock reclaim failed entries in syslog
I have an Ubuntu 11.10 VM set up in VMSphere. I'm storing some data on a nfs mount. The VM has been going down frequently. I haven't been able to pin the reason why down, but I think it has to do with ...
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NFS Permissions trouble
I have an NFS4 share and I need to use it for 2 remote machines However, folders that were created on machine 1 are not writeable for machine 2, giving the error "Permission denided".
How should I ...
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Is there an alternate to getting nfs read and write stats than reading from /proc/net/rpc/nfsd?
I'm trying to read NFS read and write data, but io fields in /proc/net/rpc/nfsd overflow (32-bit counter). I can keep track of overflow by reading the data from this file frequent enough and ...
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Does it make sense to copy files in parallel to the same NFS mount?
Here's an example:
( cp /tmp/one /nfs/one ) &
( cp /tmp/two /nfs/two ) &
( cp /tmp/three /nfs/three ) &
( cp /tmp/four /nfs/four ) &
( cp /tmp/five /nfs/five ) &
wait
Against a ...
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How to share USB drive via NFS on FreeBSD
I'm trying to share USB hard drive with msdosfs connected like this:
mount_msdosfs -o large /dev/da1s1 /mnt/usb
I can see mounted drive:
/dev/da1s1 on /mnt/usb (msdosfs, local)
but when I'm ...
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Restart linux kernel NFS lockd
Hi is there a way to restart the lockd kernel thread (NFS lock manager)? There were some file locking requests which went wrong and since then it consumes about 50% of CPU. The processes requiring ...
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Loading of Home taking too long
We have a shared storage from NetApp mounted onto about 80 systems (all running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit). These days there is some problem with the loading of user homes onto the lab machines ...
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NFSv3 Exporting directories with binded subdirectories
I've been scratching my head regarding this and thought I'd post it to see if I was missing anything obvious!
The scenario is this:
The server contains a very large folder called "Programmes" which ...
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NFS support in iptables (or other firewall)
How do I enable NFS mounts/shares with iptables with DROP policy?
NFS uses dynamically assigned ports, thus it is difficult to use with firewalls.
I have an NFS server and a few clients.
I would ...
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Why is Apache serving stale files from NFS despite a seemingly correct configuration?
I have two CentOS machines (virtualized) with a mounted NFS share with the following in /etc/fstab:
<ipaddr>:/mnt/nfsshare /mnt/nfsshare nfs ...
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Mount an NFS share as non-root in fstab
A tomcat server that is run as root (i.e. web app using port 80) needs access to an NFS share to store uploaded files, which the root account does not have access to. Unsurprisingly, when the web ...
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Mounting NFSv4 share from Debian Linux 6 to Freebsd 9-RC3 “server requires stronger authentication”
I've run into a strange problem while trying to mount from FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 to a Debian Linux box.
The command I'm using is:
sudo mount -v gorkon:/dustbin /tmp/test
This returns the following ...
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NFS mount drops to read-only during intermittent network failure
I have an NFS mount (say to /opt/foo) on a RHEL5 install that occasionally drops to a read-only filesystem after a short network failure...I have control over this box but not over the network, so I ...
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How to test if NFS is working
I am trying to create a script that runs on the client and checks my NFS mount periodically and changes some stuff around (moves a read-only, local version of the data in place of NFS) if there is an ...
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How can I troubleshoot inaccessible NFS datastores in ESXi 5?
I've been having some trouble with my virtual machines the last few days. When i fire up vSphere the NFS datastores intermittently appear offline / inaccessible. The NFS shares are on my Windows Home ...
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Serve an NFS mount over TFTP
I have a FreeBSD server on which I would like to run a TFTP server (for PXE). My daemon of choice is tftp-hpa and I have it configured to serve from /tftpboot properly. It works unless I mount ...
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I'm building a diskless php-fpm cluster, unpredictable /etc/statetab and looking for other building strategy
I'm building a 24 nodes php-fpm farm using three Supermicro MicroCloud (8 nodes in 3U, nice and tight)
At first, I was planning to have each of them nodes have a disposable HDD with CentOS on (6 or 5 ...
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apache mod_proxy… windows 2008 IIS 7.0 docroot nfs export not working
Gents,
Unfortunately, I've lost any windows knowledge (if i ever had any)...
We have to mount an nfs export to be served from a few IIS domUs.
Our "developers" wrote this beautiful "thing" that ...
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error when mounting nfs network-share in linux
I'm trying to mount a nfs network share in various OSs (ubuntu 10.10/10.10 server/11.10) but continually get the same error:
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 128.251.xxx.xxx:/Systems
...
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VMware ESXi Missing VMDK (Flat files and snapshots, but no base image)
We recently had a SAN failure that killed a very high-disk-activity VM while it was on. We fixed the failure, but can't boot the VM. When we attempt to, it displays this error message. I checked the ...
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Ubuntu PXE boot mount wrong NFS share
This question may be simple but I couldn't figure out and was stuck here for the whole day already. Any suggestions are appreciated.
I have two boxes, one as the server and other one running as the ...
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Connecting to Redundant NFS Servers (Load Balancers or Round-Robin DNS?)
In a typical NFS setup with redundant servers (multiple boxes), do people use a load balancer or round-robin DNS to achieve a single connection vector for clients?
Is there a better way to do this ...
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NFS Connection Configuration Between Multiple Clients/Servers
I have several client computers (PCs) that need to connect to DRBD-replicated NFS servers. With NFS, I know you need to have the connection configured on both machines (e.g. client -> server and ...
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How do I speed up and cache mmap file access over NFS on Linux?
The server and client are both 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
The application in question is a custom app that uses mmap() for fast random file access. Its ideal state is when the entire file is cached in ...
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VxWorks - W2003 issue loading file from NFS share
We recently replaced an existing Windows Server 2000 with a Windows Server 2003. The server‘s primary function is file/print in our development environment.
One of the directories is shared using ...
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iozone benchmark results interpretation
I'm using iozone version 3.373 to benchmark NFSv4 and NBD, but the results are a bit weird! It says that outputs are in KBytes/sec but I am getting values such as 3,411,938 for random read. I am using ...
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High Availability NFS Server (Heartbeat/DRBD) long hang on clients when takeover occurs
We have a High Availability NFS environment using DRBD, heartbeat and nfs exposed to clients (Simular to the following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HighlyAvailableNFS ). This seems to be a ...
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nfs4 rpc.idmapd not working on one machine
I have an nfs4 server, with fsid=0 exported with
no_subtree_check,no_all_squash,no_root_squash
I have various clients working fine with this, a mixture of debian and arch, mounting with nfs4 and ...
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1answer
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Present a drive on a server as a NFS to other network devices
Is there a tool that would allow me to take a shared folder on a server running server 2008 and make it look like a NFS drive?
Thanks!
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NFS and mounted subdirectories
I have two physical disks mounted as such:
sda1 -> /mnt/storage
sdb1 -> /mnt/storage/homes
I've exported /mnt/storage as an NFS share. The client sees all of the contents of /mnt/storage, ...
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nfsclient on ubuntu server
I have an nfs server running on Cent OS. iptables is setup, and I have fixed ports setup. So, the server works fine. I tried mounting the nfs volumes on a Fedora machine, and everything works.
When I ...
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Problems Mounting NFS Shared Drive Using Fstab (Ubuntu - Lucid Linux)
Currently I have clients hooked up to a server through NFS such that user home folders mount to the clients (if you want more info on that, let me know).
I am trying to set up a shared drive, in ...
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NFS issue brings down entire vSphere ESX estate
I experienced an odd issue this morning where an NFS issue appeared to have taken down the majority of my VMs hosted on a small vSphere 5.0 estate.
The infrastructure itself is 4x IBM HS21 blades ...
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NFS directory structuring to have both local and networked directories?
I have two CentOS boxes, essentially a QA and a production box, and I want to use nfs to mirror over the entire directory structure of my prod box to QA, however, I want to exclude a certain nested ...
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OpenBSD configuration: Client unable to mount via NFS using Berkeley Automounter (amd)
What I am trying to do is to have my openBSD client (OpenBSD 4.9) auto mount a Linux NFS file system (Scientific Linux 6.1). So far, I am not sure if it is configured correctly.
To get things out of ...
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ZFS on Linux for RHEL/OEL NFS Sharing
I'm trying ZFS on Linux for Oracle Linux (OLE) 6.1 (Red Hat RHEL 6.1 compatible clone).
I successfully compiled and installed spl and zfs on it for Oracle Unbreakable Kernel.
Zfs is working and I ...
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Mount NFS on Windows XP
I want to know if anybody have done any hands on test mounting NFS on windows xp using "Windows services for unix" http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=274
I know that it should work ...
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Setting Linux UID on NFS volume from EMC NX4
I have an EMC NX4 from which there are several CIFS shares with corresponding NFS mount points. The CIFS user ids seem fine but when viewed from Linux they are all 327xx numbers and can't be set from ...
