Useful Websites; Related Books - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4.5.0 Reference Manual

Chapter 9. Network File Syste...
• — Gives details for the format of the
man fstab
at boot-time.
• — Provides details on NFS-specific file system export and mount options.
man nfs
• — Shows common options used in the
man exports
file systems.

6.2. Useful Websites

• http://nfs.sourceforge.net/
status updates.
• http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/
• http://www.nfsv4.org
standards.
• http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/NFSv4/NFSv4-no-rpcsec.html
NFSv4 with Fedora Core 2, which includes the 2.6 kernel.
• http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2000/papers/pawlowski.pdf
features and enhancements of the NFS Version 4 protocol.

6.3. Related Books

• Managing NFS and NIS by Hal Stern, Mike Eisler, and Ricardo Labiaga; O'Reilly &Associates
— Makes an excellent reference guide for the many different NFS export and mount options
available.
• NFS Illustrated by Brent Callaghan; Addison-Wesley Publishing Company — Provides
comparisons of NFS to other network file systems and shows, in detail, how NFS
communication occurs.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide; Red Hat, Inc. — The Network File
System (NFS) chapter explains concisely how to set up an NFS clients and servers.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Security Guide; Red Hat, Inc. — The Server Security chapter
explains ways to secure NFS and other services.
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— The home of the Linux NFS project and a great place for project
[http://www.nfsv4.org/] — The home of NFS version 4 and all related
file used to mount file systems
/etc/fstab
/etc/exports
— An NFSv4 for Linux 2.6 kernel resource.
— Describes the details of
— An excellent whitepaper on the
file when exporting NFS