NFS

The cost of gigabit ethernet switches and NIC's has fallen to the point where there is no excuse not to use "gig-e", and the huge bandwidth presents the reality of network file transfers at speeds exceeding that of disk io.

An NFS server is configured by including the appropriate modules in the Linux kernel, by writing an /etc/export file, and by adding the remote hosts to the /etc/hosts.allow file.

Configuring an NFS Client is actually somewhat more complicated. Besides running the nfsd, rpc.portmap must be running, and /etc/hosts.allow must specifically open the interface IP address if it is a dedicated NFS channel (is that true? it was in my case...)

To Be Continued!!