Re: NFS Question
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:42:04PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 19:19, Nyc0n wrote:
> > Im going to attempt to set up an NFS, I have done so in the past and
> > failed, ive read all the howtos and everything, but I had one question,
> > I already have the drives I want to make into the NFS, they are
> > currently reiserfs and already have stuff on them, do they have to be
> > blank? Or can I just tell it which drives I want to use and it take over
> > the reiserfs ?
>
> NFS isn't really a filesystem in the same way that ReiserFS or ext{2,3},
> are. NFS is a protocol for making your existing file systems accessible
> to other systems over a network connection. The windows world equivalent
> is that you might format your hard drive as FAT{12,16,32}, NTFS, etc and
> then share the drive over the network via SMB. You can mix and match
> on-disk filesystems and network sharing protocols, too - for instance,
> you could have an ext2 filesystem on a hard drive partition on your
> linux system, shared via SAMBA to other systems that understand the SMB
> protocol (like a windows system).
>
> You do not need to do anything specific to your current file systems,
> whether they are ReiserFS, ext2, etc. YOu just need to install NFS, run
> the NFS daemons on your server, and export the filesystems through NFS,
> and then NFS clients can connect to them. You specify the exported file
> systems on the server via /etc/exports, and on the client mount them as
> nfs type file systems.
>
And, when all the above is done, restart the nfs daemon so that (s)he actually
does make the stuff that you want to share with other hosts available to them.
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