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Network File System version 4 (NFSv4)

NFS Version 4 (RFC 3010, December 2000; revised in RFC 3530, April 2003), influenced by AFS and CIFS, includes performance improvements, mandates strong security, ACLs, locking and introduces a stateful protocol. Version 4 became the first version developed with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) after Sun Micro systems handed over the development of the NFS protocols.

NFS version 4 minor version 1 (NFSv4.1) has been approved by the IETF and received an RFC number 5661 since Jan 2010. The NFSv4.1 specification aims:

To provide protocol support to take advantage of clustered server deployments including the ability to provide scalable parallel access to files distributed among multiple servers (pNFS extension). to provide sessions and Exacely One Semantic (EOS)

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How to mount multiple folders with nfs4 on centos?

I'm trying to get nfs4 working here. Machine 1 (server) I have a folder and in it 2 other folders I'm trying to share independently. /shared/folder1 /shared/folder2 Problem is, I can't seem to figure out how to mount the folders independently on the…
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nfs4 and kerberos: Wrong principal in request

My client/servers are both running Ubuntu 14.04 and kerberos user authentication works as intended. regular nfs4 mounts also work fine. All machines are running heimdal libraries. I haven't been able to get kerberized nfs4 working though. When…
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mount using nfs4 giving no such device error

I am trying to mount a folder workspace from server to the client over NFS. For this I bind the folder to an /export by adding the following in my /etc/fstab on server: /home /export none bind Then I add the following lines in my /etc/exports…
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Restart idmapd without rebooting the host?

When I have changed Domain in /etc/idmapd.conf and then service idmapd restart, then the change doesn't take effect until I reboot. Is it possible to do this without having to rebooting the host? I have the problem on CentOS 6.
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How do I disable NFSv3/v2 connections to a FreeBSD NFSv4 server?

I am using a Kubuntu 11.10 client with a FreeBSD 9.0 server. The server has the following lines in /etc/rc.conf nfs_server_enable="YES" nfsv4_server_enable="YES" nfsuserd_enable="YES" and the following in /etc/exports V4: / / I am not using any…
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NFS low performance after some activity

I have a Linux cluster with nodes that have NFS mountpoints from a central server (actually the nodes are diskless and are booted over PXE). After some activity on the NFS mountpoints from the nodes, NFS seems to slow down drastically, e.g. ssh…
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NFS Performance issues on Oracle Linux 6.7: Shared libraries on NFS slow down system

I am currently hunting down some performance issues on some VMWare virtual machines with the same amount of memory and cpus, running Oracle Linux 6.6 (Kernel 2.6) and 6.7 (Kernel 3.8). The machines mount the same share over NFS4 which contains some…
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Latency on a small Linux NFS4 client/server system

We are a computer science department at a small university, running a RHEL 7 server using NFS4 and Fedora 24 clients (~40 client machines, ~150 users--rarely concurrent). We are having latency problems, and we're having trouble…
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Pacemaker error on failback with drbd

I have two nodes in my cluster with drbd+pacemaker+corosync When the first node fails, the second assumes the service and it's ok, but when we have to failback (node1 back online) it shows some errors and the cluster stops working. It's a CentOS 6…
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NFSv4 through portforward

I would like to reach my NFSv4 servers though port forward. The big plan will be a cluster of NFSv4 servers loadbalanced with HAProxy running on localhost. But this isn't really important now. At the server the /etc/exports looks like this /mnt/x …
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NFS issue: clients can mount shares as NFSv3 but not as NFSv4 -- or how to debug NFS?

Problem description I have a file server running Debian. On it I have a few NFS shares. When I mount the shares from a client using NFSv3 (mount.nfs 10.0.0.51:/exports/video /mnt -o vers=3,soft,intr,timeo=10), it works. However, I would like to use…
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"KDC has no support for encryption type" when setting up cross-realm trust between MIT Kerberos and Active Directory

I am currently setting up an environment where I have a set of Solaris and Linux machines, using a dedicated Krberos 5 realm (MIT, on Solaris 11, krb5-config --version returns: Solaris Kerberos (based on MIT Kerberos 5 release 1.6.3)). We also have…
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How to monitor which files are accessed through NFS?

I have a linux file server running CentOS 6. Files are accessed via NFS4. Sometimes I have problems with disk io load. I want to find out what is causing them. I can find out which client is causing them with tcpdump and nfsiostat (on the clients).…
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NFSv4 - ACLs not working

I've setup an NFSv4 server (Debian) and client (Ubuntu/Mythbuntu). It seems that uid username mapping is working nicely out-of-the-box (I get correct usernames on ls -l if the usernames match between the two boxes, even if the uids don't), but ACLs…
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Mounting NFSv4 share from Debian Linux 6 to Freebsd 9-RC3 "server requires stronger authentication"

I've run into a strange problem while trying to mount from FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 to a Debian Linux box. The command I'm using is: sudo mount -v gorkon:/dustbin /tmp/test This returns the following immediate information: mount: no type was given - I'll…
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