Section G.5. NFS Management and Configuration

Table G-5 shows differences in Linux and Solaris NFS management and configuration tasks.

Table G-5. ^[*] NFS Management and Configuration Tasks
Task/Configuration File	Solaris	Linux
Manually start the NFS server	/etc/init.d/nfs.server start	RHEL: /etc/init.d/nfs start SLES: /etc/init.d/nfsserver start
Mount a resource on an NFS client	`mount -F nfs` `server://resource/mount/point`	`mount` `server://resource /mount/point`
NFS server general config file	/etc/default/nfs	/etc/sysconfig/nfs
NFS logging options config file	/etc/default/nfslogd	/etc/sysconfig/nfs
Share all exported filesystems	`shareall`	`exportfs -a`
Share a new filesystem	`share`	`exportfs -o`
Config file of shared filesystems	/etc/dfs/dfstab	/etc/exports

^[*] Table A-7 of IBM Redbook