From the course: Ubuntu Linux: Providing Services
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NFS server settings
From the course: Ubuntu Linux: Providing Services
NFS server settings
- [Narrator] There's a lot of settings we can use when configuring an NFS server and when we connect as a client. I want to take a few minutes here to go over some of them so you're more aware of what's available. If you're using the default settings, you're getting settings that should work for most people most of the time in most situations, but as the size of your deployment increases, or if you need to tune particular parameters of your NFS server, there are options available to change the way it works. When setting up an export, we can choose whether clients from a particular address or range can read and write or read only with the rw and ro options. By default, a server won't allow changes to an exported file system, so to enable changes, we'll need to write rw in the export line if we want clients to be able to create and change files. Depending on the speed of your storage and how much activity there is, the server might keep information in memory or in cache and not write it…