Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:21:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@duke.edu>
To: Palash Mohanlal Kasodhan <pmkasodh@unity.ncsu.edu>
cc: Mike Burger <mburger@bubbanfriends.org>, <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: XFS client software
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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/

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University