Questions tagged [nfs]
an acronym for Network File System - a file sharing protocol
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How to automatically cache NFS files on macOS Sonoma?
Is it possible to automatically cache files from an NFS server locally?
I'm connected to the NFS server over a fairly low bandwidth link. Most of the files on the server change rarely. It would ...
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Sonoma 14.4: NFS shares automounted, but contents not visible
On my Mac Studio I have three folders that I use as mount points for NFS shares. I manage the NFS mounts with NFS Manager. Up until recently (I suspect the update to Sonoma 14.4, but I'm not sure) ...
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MacOS Ventura - mounting local NFS share to root directory with help of synthetic.conf
I already figured a way, and it kinda works, but it just feels wrong. Is there a more proper way to do it?
I recently upgraded from Mojave to Ventura and suddenly realized I lost all my root folders, ...
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What is the proper configuration for mounting Synology shares over NFS, without case-sensitivity?
I've ran out of disk space (heh). So, I cleverly mounted some shares via NFS (which is blindingly fast compared to any other type of file sharing, thanks to the advanced support macOS has for NFSv4, ...
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Unablet to mount OpenBSD NFS share from MacOS unless I disable firewall
I have an OpenBSD server with NFS shares that I can use without any problem from a Linux client. On MacOS, I had to specify the following options -o nolocks,resvport,vers=3 to get the mount command to ...
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Word for Mac on NFS share thinks documents are read only
I have a strange issue with am Unraid server running NFS shares.
Facts:
Running a fresh install of Word on a fresh Mac on a fresh Unraid server
Documents are on an NFS4 network share
The share and ...
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Changing my UID (on OS Ventura) for NFS mounts
I've just bought an M2 MB Air to replaced my aging intel macbook.
I've got a home server running Ubuntu 22.04 and if provides NFSv4 mounts. My UID under Ubuntu is 1000. When I tryed chaning my UID on ...
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Reasonable-seeming entries in /etc/export don't work—why?
I'm trying to learn more about NFS, and I'm experimenting by exporting arbitrary volumes on my M1 Air (running Ventura 13.1) and then mounting them. Often, I write a row to my /etc/exports file and ...
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Mac Quick Preview change file datetime in NFS shares
In macOS Monterey, when I quick look files located on NFS shares, the modify date/time has been changed.
How can I prevent this?
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How can I have custom Finder Icons for NFS Volumes (like SMB icons)?
I have a few NAS/UNRAID servers that I connected to from my macOS (Ventura) client over SMB, but I'm currently swapping over to NFS. From the command line, things are fine and work as expected.
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Error hdiutil: create failed - File exists -> but the file does not exist until this command fails
Trying to create a .dmg file on an NFS share.
% rm -f store.dmg && ls -l store.dmg
ls: store.dmg: No such file or directory
% hdiutil create -size 300g -fs APFS -volname Temp store....
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After upgrading to Monterey nfsd not working well
I set up an NFS server on the MacBook Pro to export certain directories in order to share with Ubuntu client running on VirtualBox. In /etc/exports, on the Mac, I have:
/Users/xxx/VMShares/Xubuntu -...
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Slow nfs4 performance and "nfs_buf_write_rpc: Got request with zero length."
I have my imac macos12.5.1 connected over gigabit ethernet to my debian fileserver.
When transferring a single large file of about 10GB via nfs4, throughput is something like 60MB/s but probably even ...
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automount is broken after upgrading MacOS Monterey
I'm having issues with automount with my NFS shares after upgrading to MacOS Monterey 12.3.1.
/etc/auto_master:
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# Automounter master map
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/System/Volumes/Data/mnt auto_mounts
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How to mount top-level directory using NFS and fstab
My setup on macOS consists of the following:
The /etc/synthetic.conf file contains the line: mydata.
A directory /mydata was created.
The /etc/fstab file contains the line: myserver:/exports/mydata /...
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