Re: [cobalt-developers] activating nfs on a cobalt cube

[Chris Johnson <cj.johnson@xxxxxxx>]

	 > From     : Frank Mattes <list_server2001@xxxxxxxxx>
	 >
	 > I'm wondering if someone can point me at the right
	> direction where I can find information how to activate
	> the nfs server on a cobalt cube 2

    I can't remember what we disabled for Gateway, but to turn 
    on the NFS server functionality, you *should* be able to just
    follow the man page for how to list the directories in
        /etc/exports
    and then turn on the daemons:
        /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start
        /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start
    
    If you want to make this permanent on reboot, you'll need
    to make links into the rc3.d directory:
        ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S60nfs
        ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S59portmap
 
    Hmm.  It appears that init state 5 currently starts NFS.
    You could set this in /etc/inittab, by changing the 3 to
    a 5 in the line that says:
        id:3:initdefault:
    But I'm pretty sure that we never tested running at init
    state 5, so strange things may happen.
 
    Finally, the 2.0 Linux kernel has a flakey NFS, so our MIPS
    systems rely on the user mode nfs server daemon, rpc.nfsd,
    which is started by the nfs init script.  The performance is
    unimpressive, but it does provide file system connectivity.

    cj*