nfs (Network File System) created by Sun Microsystems. NFS allows a client system to access network files as if local.
nfs (Network File System) created by Sun Microsystems. NFS allows a client system to access network files as if local.
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Preventing broken NFS connection from freezing the client system
We have an NFS 4 share, sharing a volume between a number of servers (NFS server, and clients all Debian 8). We have had some issues recently where network outages would freeze the client systems.
Our NFS options were minimal, just rw (and so the…
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Stop broken NFS mounts from locking a directory?
I have a somewhat interesting setup: A server with multiple remote NFS servers mounted in a folder, with that folder then being re-exported over Samba. Think of it as a share proxy, keeping all the shared folders in one place.
My issue though is…
TheLQ
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User permissions in NFS mounted directory
I have oracle linux 6.7, a NFS server in Windows, and I am trying to mount a shared folder in Linux.
The Windows NFS server has a shared mount :
192.168.1.10:/OracleBK
In my oracle linux server, I created a folder , /orabackup and the oracle user…
saeed.sh
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reinit NFS client without restart
I have been working on my server, from which I export one directory using NFS.
Of course over the week or so of server reboots, I multiple times forgot to umount the export filesystem in my workstation (which gets mounted from /etc/fstab on boot).…
Anthon
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NFS connection refused
I want to set up a filesharing server with NFS. But when I want to show the conetnts of export I get this:
manuel@server ~ $ showmount
clnt_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - Unable to receive: errno 111 (Connection refused)
What is wrong with it?
ManuelSchneid3r
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Where are NFS defaults specified?
In regards to: Preventing broken NFS connection from freezing the client system.
My system runs SLES 11.4 and I use NFS v3.
In my /etc/fstab file on an NFS client system I have:
mastersystem:/masterdata /data nfs defaults 0 0
Can someone tell me…
ron
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nfs mount failed: reason given by server: No such file or directory
The nfs server is running Arch Linux. The nfs client below ("pc1") is running Ubuntu 16.04. Both are using nfs4.
root@PC1:~# cat /etc/fstab (relevant line shown below):
server:/backup/system/pc1 /backup/system nfs4 auto,noatime 0 0
After the…
MountainX
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"Stale file handle" on certain directories occurring immediately after NFS mount; no file handles open
For some time I've been experiencing a strange issue with NFS where a seemingly random subset of directories (always the same ones) under / consistently show up with stale file handles immediately after NFS mount.
I've been able to correct the…
i336_
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system lock up when storage go offline when using nfs mount options bg,hard,nointr
I had the following mount option defined on my system. In the event of any storage outage would these (bg,hard,nointr) causes to lock the console access?
storage:/vol/myvol on /test type nfs…
Raza
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NFS Share with Custom Interface
I have 4 NIC in my server: eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3.
It's a storage server with several disks.
I have three Volume Groups: vg_share1, vg_share2, vg_share3.
I want to share these Volume Groups with different NIC's like this:
vg_share1 --(NFS Share)-->…
Daniel Gordi
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Mounting NFS: owners are nobody:nogroup
I mounted an NFS filesytem from the shell using the code:
LINE='nfs.mit.edu:/export/evodesign/beatdb /beatdb nfs tcp,intr,rw 0 0'
grep "$LINE" /etc/fstab >/dev/null || echo $LINE >> /etc/fstab
mkdir /beatdb
mount -a # Remount /etc/fstab Without…
Franck Dernoncourt
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What would cause NFS file move/delete operations to fail?
I have a medium-to-large server that all of my engineering users are on. This is a 32-core, 256GB system hosting 19 Xvnc sessions plus the plethora of tools, login sessions, and such that is implied by such a userbase. All users are configured via…
David Mackintosh
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Smoke test for NFS?
Is there a simple test (like ping for determining if a network device is online) to determine if a NFS is enabled on a NAS? Assume root-access to the NAS via terminal command-line is available.
On the NAS command line, I have tried:
netstat -tulpn…
gatorback
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nfs remount problem
I find a strange problem when I remount nfs in RHEL7.
I have shared 2 directories on nfs-server:
# showmount -e
Export list for localhost.localdomain:
/file2 192.168.122.1
/file1 192.168.122.1
Then I mount them on my client:
# sudo mount…
Barathrum
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NFS does not store tails of files when program crashes
Program is running in parallel on multiple processors and is writing logs to a central host via NFS under RH7.3 or SUSE 11.3. If program crashes or hangs then tails of log files are lost and we lack information on the location and reason of the…
vladimir
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