topic Net Work File SYSTem in Operating System - HP-UX

Net Work File SYSTem

Francisco Cortazar — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:35:37 GMT

Hi how can i create a Network File system.

Thanks

Re: Net Work File SYSTem

Sundar_7 — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:40:39 GMT

There is nothing like a filesystem of type Network file system.

It is just like any other file system except for the fact it is used by other system across the network.

Filesystems of type HFS,VXFS,CDFS when used by remote systems are referred to as network file system.

newfs command can create HFS and VXFS file systems for you and then you can export the file system to the other nodes using Network File System (NFS).

Re: Net Work File SYSTem

Sundar_7 — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:40:49 GMT

Re: Net Work File SYSTem

RAC_1 — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:42:45 GMT

You need to start by learning asics about Unix. A bsic course will do.

The (NFS) Network File System on hp-ux is done as follows.

A system acts as serving the NFS to clients.
A server serving the NFS, is called NFS server and the systems that mount it are called NFS clients.

On hp-ux, On server(NFS server), you export the required file systems as NFS. You put the entries in /etc/exports file. Export (make them available on to the Network) and clients mount it.

Read man pages -
exportfs, /etc/exports, mount_nfs, showmount and NFS.

Before you export the file systems, you need to start appropriate daemons. (server side - nfs.core, nfs.server) On client side - nfs.client and nfs.core

Anil

Re: Net Work File SYSTem

Victor Fridyev — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:45:02 GMT

Hi,

Every local file system or directory may be used as NFS. The computer where the FS is locale called NFS server and the remote computer, which uses this FS called NFS client.
I'd recommend you to use SAM on both server and client machines. You can find NFS item in the network part of SAM.
HTH