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How mount NFS share in Solaris?

How mount NFS share in Solaris?

How to Mount a File System From the Command Line

  1. Become an administrator. For more information, see How to Obtain Administrative Rights in Oracle Solaris Administration: Security Services.
  2. Mount the file system. Type the following command: # mount -F nfs -o ro bee:/export/share/local /mnt.

How do I share a ZFS file in Solaris 11?

New ZFS Sharing and Legacy Share Command Summary

  1. Create the SMB share. # zfs set share=name=fs2,path=/fs2, prot=smb tank/fs2.
  2. Set the sharesmb property to on. # zfs set sharesmb=on tank/fs2.

What is an NFS share?

Network File Sharing (NFS) is a protocol that allows you to share directories and files with other Linux clients over a network. An NFS file share is mounted on a client machine, making it available just like folders the user created locally.

How do I create a ZFS file system?

How to Create ZFS File Systems

  1. Become root or assume an equivalent role with the appropriate ZFS rights profile.
  2. Create the desired hierarchy.
  3. Set the inherited properties.
  4. Create the individual file systems.
  5. Set the file system-specific properties.
  6. View the results.

Where is NFS used?

NFS is often used with Unix operating systems (such as Solaris, AIX, HP-UX), Apple’s macOS, and Unix-like operating systems (such as Linux and FreeBSD).

What is NFS in Solaris?

Network File System (NFS) is a protocol which allows file systems on one system to be made available on a remote system on the network. NFS works on the server-client model with server sharing the resource and client mounting it.

How does NFS sharing work in Solaris 11?

The major change that oracle made in NFS sharing is that it removed the dependency of /etc/dfs/dfstab to share NFS permanently. The file /etc/dfs/dfstab is obsolete in Solaris 11, so even if you make any changes to it, they are ignored. Solaris 11 makes use of SMF services to share the NFS file systems automatically while booting.

Which is the default file system in Solaris 11?

ZFS is the default file system when it comes to Solaris 11. In solaris 11, Oracle made it even easy to share ZFS as NFS file system. The major change that oracle made in NFS sharing is that it removed the dependency of /etc/dfs/dfstab to share NFS permanently.

How to manage Oracle Solaris ZFS file system?

1.   Oracle Solaris ZFS File System (Introduction) 2.   Getting Started With Oracle Solaris ZFS 3.   Oracle Solaris ZFS and Traditional File System Differences 4.   Managing Oracle Solaris ZFS Storage Pools 5.   Managing ZFS Root Pool Components 6.   Managing Oracle Solaris ZFS File Systems

When to publish defined shares in ZFS file system?

When the sharenfs or sharesmb property is set to on, all defined shares for the file system (and all descendent file systems inheriting the property) are published for the appropriate protocol. All defined shares are also published when the zfs share command is issued.