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NFS Troubleshooting References

Table 16-1 provides a reference for finding resources and troubleshooting NFS.

Table 16-1: NFS Troubleshooting References

General NFS Information

NFS project

http://nfs.sourceforge.net

NFS documentation

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto NFS HOWTO

NFS e-mail archive

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=4930

NFS documentation in Fedora

/usr/share/doc/nfs-utils*

NFS 4 development

www.citi.umich.edu//projects/nfsv4

NFS Configuration and Log Files

/etc/fstab

General file for mounting file systems at boot time or later, including NFS file systems.

/etc/exports

Contains exported NFS shares that are made available to clients.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs

Start-up script for launching the NFS server.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/nf slock

Provides file-locking functions for the NFS service.

/var/lib/nfs/*

Several files in this directory contain information about NFS activities. The etab file lists the files that are currently exported and who they are exported to. The rmtab file lists file systems that are mounted at the moment. The xtab file contains information on which file systems are currently exported (duplicating information in the /proc/fs/nfs/exports file).

NFS Commands

Exportfs

Tool for exporting NFS file systems.

Rpcinfo -p

Displays all RPC services, including NFS and related services, that are registered on the local computer.

Nfsstat

Check status of shared NFS resources.

Showmount

Show which computers have mounted file systems from the NFS server.


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