setting up a NFS server

[Terry Polzin]

On Sunday February 13 2005 19:18, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Have you got some documentation on setting up correctly a NFS server
> (FC3) ? What modules to load (and what to put into modprobe.conf to have
> it autoloaded) ? what services to launch ? The goal is to have a stable
> NFS server (dont care of v1 v2 v3...).
>
nfs-utils rpm should be installed nothing to go into modprobe.conf you aren't 
loading a hardware module you are starting a service.
> I would like to do a TCP NFS (Not a UDP one). What configuration file
> have I got to edit?
>
Edit /etc/exports.  That's the file you put you exported tree(s) in along with 
the mount options for the remote systems.

To start the service at boot, chkconfig --level 2345 nfs on

> The problem I encounter for the moment is the acces of the nfs tree from
> the client is not "fluide" ( i dont know the translation in english ). I
> mean: For example if I do a
>
> $ find /nfs/mounted/tree -name '*e*'
>
> It will list the files, but it lists some, then stop for 30 seconds or
> more, then goes on, then wait 10 seconds, and so on... but never fails.
>
> The same if I try to 'ls' in the NFS mointed tree:
> sometimes it shows me all rigt now, sometimes it wait 30 seconds or
> more, or less (it's random)
>
> My guess is the NFS is mounted OK, but some parameters are not ok.
>
> I only have nfs-utils on the server when I 'rpm -qa | grep nfs'
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