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Writing a Linux file system for NFS
I want to write my own custom file system in Linux. Can I share it over standard NFS without making any changes to the local NFS server? If so what VFS APIs are required to be implemented by my file ...
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What is the best File system for NFS? [closed]
I'm looking for a File System that handle intensive IO so NFS can serve mounting /home for multiple(<50) users.
Actually we do ext3 over NFS, but perfs are not good.
I Already read this1 (NFS ...
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/ permissions on a linux filesystem
Does the / have permissions attached to it? If so what are they and what command do you run to find out?
The reason why I ask this is to know weather a NFS mount reflect this if your export is set to ...
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Automount not equivelent to mount?
I'm struggling to get automount to work as desired.
If I run the following:
sudo mount -t nfs server:/path/to/share /path/to/mount_point
I get the mount appearing fine.
However, if I add the ...
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Moving Data From Old System to New System via NFS Mount
My old system was running RHEL 5,(systemold.blah.blah), and I wanted to update the server with as little downtime as possible, so I built out a new system (systemnew.blah.blah) and put RHEL 6 on it.
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I/O statistics per user
I have access to an academic supercomputer where there is an NFS filesystem where our lab keeps our data.
When I run iostats -nh I believe I am getting statistics for all users accessing all storage ...
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delayed write in operating file system
I read in some papers about NFS and Sprite that a system can use delayed writes when a client writes something to the server.
I would like to know what is the purpose of this technique?
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What is the proper way of sharing the /usr subdirectory?
What parts of the /usr subdirectory are usually shared in common practice without introducing any system instabilities? My intent is to share share-able parts of the /usr subdirectory among VM's of ...
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How to determine what filesystem a directory exists on?
I have an NFS share which is shared across about two other machines. I recently realized that one of the servers isn't sharing the directory and is keeping files all for itself. Is there a way to see ...
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Keep local copy of nfs mount on computer
I mount all my home directories and what ever else on my laptop when it is on my home network. I was wondering if there is a way to keep a local copy of the nfs mount when my laptop is off the ...
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When networkmanager is used, OpenSuSe gets stuck during boot for 10 minutes
I have this problem on all machines that I every installed (different configurations, different geographical locations, even different OpenSuSe versions) and it's extremely irritating.
When I turn on ...
