Questions tagged [nfs]
Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed.
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How to move several terabytes of files with an unstable NFS connection?
I have inherited a proprietary, distributed storage system that exposes its files through NFS. I need to move these files off the system. The trouble is that NFS links are reported as stale before I ...
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NFS Not letting me edit files except on mountpoint
Here's my setup;
NFS server is running Ubuntu Server using nfs-kernel-server.
The client is running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I am mounting using Finder's connect to server.
It will connect fine and ...
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Concurrent NFS access
Similar to Concurrent FTP access.
How is concurrent file access handled for NFS? Say that one client is updating/overwriting a file on a NFS server, and a process on the server is reading that same ...
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