Questions tagged [nfs]
nfs (Network File System) created by Sun Microsystems. NFS allows a client system to access network files as if local.
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CentOS NFS mount disappeared; commands freeze
I have 19 CentOS Linux virtual servers for a specific solution. These servers are distributed in three network areas, C, D, S. The NFS server is located in zone S and is configured to exposie a share, ...
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Linux NFS sync with windows SMB very slow
I have a dataset on my NAS (TrueNAS) which I share to a Linux system via NFS (v4) and my Windows PC via SMB (v3). This works fine, however when I change a file on my PC it takes between 20 seconds up ...
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Mount program did not pass remote address: NFS client is debian 13, server MacOS
My mac is exporting an NFS file system, as best I can tell. showmount -e on the mac shows an export. ➜ infrastructure git:(bim-typo) showmount -e Exports list on localhost: /Users/bensonmargulies ...
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Unable to mount NFS share from fstab, cmd line works fine
I have an NFS server installed on my PC running KDE Neon (24.04). I installed it so that I could share a folder to a Windows 11 tablet. It worked well, and I was able to create a persistent mount on ...
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CacheFiles when the cached system is unmounted, or alternatives
In my current setup, I have two machines serverA and serverB in different geographical areas. serverA has a limited amount of persistent memory (~256GB), while serverB can be considered to have enough ...
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Run NFSv4 w/RDMA on Rocky v9.5
I'm trying out RDMA on NFS and noticed that it does not seem to work with NFSv4: [grant@host ~]$ sudo mount -t nfs -o rdma,proto=rdma,vers=4 10.99.99.98:/ifs/rdma-test /mnt/powerscale_rdma mount.nfs: ...
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monitoring millions of files in linux with fanotify
I have a rather unique setup: Proxmox setup with 2x fileservers (Debian 12), running DRBD for redundancy, XFS as the main data filesystem and then an NFS share set up for our 6 node cluster to access. ...
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How can I automatically have the system periodically retry a failed mount from fstab?
I had an NFS share go down and backup due to power outage but the machine that mounts it in fstab just sees it goes down and doesn't try to remount it. I had to remount it manually with.. sudo ...