Re: [9fans] Configuring NFS

[John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 10:30 -0700, John Floren wrote:
>> Has anyone here successfully set up nfsserver to share Plan 9 files
>> with Unix machines? The examples given in the man pages are rather...
>> opaque. All I want to do is share one directory tree (/lib/music, in
>> particular) with a number of independent Linux laptops and
>> workstations.
>
> I used it in combination with Solaris.

Do you still have the configuration? I'm looking at the man page for
nfsserver but wondering what the machine 'ivy' does, and what exactly
'pie' and 'yoshimi' are doing, etc.

>
>> I'm looking into NFS because it seems that it has about the lowest
>> barrier to entry of all the possible file-sharing methods. Any other
>> suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Whether or not to use NFS depends greatly on what is on the other end.
> What kind of UNIX?
>

Like I said, it's a collection of Linux machines, mostly running
Debian, Ubuntu, and Redhat.


John
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