nfs (Network File System) created by Sun Microsystems. NFS allows a client system to access network files as if local.
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NFS attribute caching (actimeo) ignored for symbolic links?
We have a project with 10000+ domains, each has its own document root and a relative symbolic link to the shared libraries on the same NFS share. We have seen a huge number of GETATTR NFS requests ...
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NFS vs SSH -YC - Which one is faster?
I frequently need to remotely run some programs (such as matlab) installed on my server. I used to mount the required nfs directories on my local machine (via etc/fstab). Recently, for some reasons, I ...
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Copying Linux NFS files to a standard consumer external hard drive
I am a graduate student and a relative Linux novice. My institution has an in-house Linux cluster on which I run many scientific simulations. I have a Windows desktop computer from which I access ...
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Directory “not found” on HP-UX for NFS mount point
On an HP-UX B.11.31 that mount via NFS a remote disk using mount point /BK_RESTORE, I would like to access a sub directory with oracle user, but I cannot even if permissions are correct. Using a ...
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Why are inotify events different on an NFS mount?
Some time ago I noticed that the events reported by inotify are different when the file is saved to an NFS mount vs. a local file system.
Shouldn't the underlying VFS provide a uniform view of file ...
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Anyway to read NFS vhdx from Hyper-V under Windows?
Quick of it is: I have an Ubuntu 12.10 server instance, running under Hyper-V on Win 8. It has worked wonderfully for about 4 months. Now, when I need to pull data back to Windows, inexplicably, it ...
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NFS permission denied
When I configure NFS and create a file on the client NFS shared dir, I get the following message: permission denied.
My configuration:
configuration nfs server
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wheezy: nis/autofs doesn't work
I have a few computers with debian lenny on them.
One of them has a nis server: 193.167.1.75
I can automount my home directory when I log in:
>ssh 193.167.1.80 -l myuser
>pwd
/home/nis/myuser
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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 ...
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How to keep track of which files are currently growing in directory
I have a local filesystem which is exported rw with nfs (very big xfs partition).
Somewhere (I cannot determine who or what remote process) files are being written, created new or updated appending ...
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Test if a file is on NFS?
Is there a simple test to determine if a file is on an NFS mount? (Or maybe more generally, what type of filesystem a file lives on?) I am imagining some ugly prefix matching against fstab...
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NFS server dropped connection momentarily, now df, ls, and umount all hang
I have this fstab entry:
machine.local:/srv/files /res/files nfs defaults 0 0
It was working great until machine.local dropped the connection momentarily. Now, the share isn't accessible. df, ...
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Changing permissions on an NFS mount + sharing directories with a guest VM
I'm building a development environment where folders from a host environment (OSX) are mounted in VirtualBox VMs running Ubuntu guests.
Our experience is that straightforward VirtualBox shared ...
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How can a non-root user check if a FS has been exported to a server?
Consider I am on server1 logged in as a non-root user. How do I check if a NAS FS has been exported onto the server SERVER1?
I have already tried the below commands.
bash-3.2$ dfshares SERVER1
nfs ...
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High availibility setup with NFS
Web hosting HA setup
I have 5 servers:
Server-1: Webhosting Controlpanel (192.168.1.1)
Server-2: Load balancer [Haproxy] (Public IP:192.168.1.2 and
Virtual IP:192.168.1.3)
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