Re: confused about NFS-server in kernel versus nfsd package
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, James D. Freels wrote:
: I would like to take advantage of the apparent better performance of
: NFS-server capability of the new kernel. I have built my kernel
: 2.2.12 with nfs-server capability. I cannot find any documentation on
: this capability (howto, etc.) The help message from the kernel
: configuration is attached below. The referenced NFS-HOWTO is dated
: 11-3-97 and was apparently written before this feature was added to
: the kernel? How do I do this?
:
: _________________________________________________________________
: CONFIG_NFSD:
:
: If you want your Linux box to act as a NFS *server*, so that other
: computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
: directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
: use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
: should say N here, or you can say Y and use this new experimental
: kernel based NFS server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is
: that it is faster; it might not be completely stable yet, though.
:
: In either case, you will need support software; the respective
: locations are given in the file Documentation/Changes in the NFS
: section. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you read this file as suggested, you find the following:
NFS
===
The user-land 2.2beta40 release:
ftp://ftp.mathematik.th-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/okir/dontuse/nfs-server-2.2beta40
.tar.gz
ftp://linux.nrao.edu/mirrors/fb0429.mathematik.th-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/okir/do
ntuse/nfs-server-2.2beta40.tar.gz
The kernel-level 1.4.4 release:
ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/support/hjl/knfsd/knfsd-1.4.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/gcc/knfsd-1.4.4.tar.gz
I think you want the knfsd stuff. It's still fairly unstable, enough so
that I haven't tried it yet.
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