On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 at 3:16pm, Palash Mohanlal Kasodhan wrote
> Can I get the same sort of functionality from XFS as I would get
> from Andrew File System or Sun's Network File System?
And what functionality do you want? NFS isn't really Sun's...
> I plan to deploy XFS on my Linux server.I would like other Linux
> workstations on my network to be able to access the XFS file system
> resources on my Linux server.
> Will installing Samba on my Linux server enable the Linux
> workstations to access resources on the XFS file system on my Linux
> server.Would I need to install any software on the Linux workstations ?
You don't need samba for Linux clients. You can export an XFS filesystem
using NFS (just like you could an ext{2,3} filesystem) and mount it on any
of Linux client. All Linux distros that I know of come with NFS support
compiled in.
For more detailed info, see the Linux NFS HOWTO:
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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