X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?p=nfs-utils.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=3fa3a58587329235ad928e694e7ec61f5f7564ec;hp=3fb4bb06383de476f1b245da74b1a9709758ac21;hb=a1b7c0da9e73a607f4bc70ffe3b44b00f5d39938;hpb=8b7ad01b14df1e7529b9ba8a1ea17df0d6004ef9 diff --git a/README b/README index 3fb4bb0..3fa3a58 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,92 +1,65 @@ -This is the Linux NFS utility package version 0.1. It is based on knfsd -1.4.7. +This is version 1.0.1 of nfs-utils, the Linux NFS utility package. -WARNING: The NFS servers in Linux 2.2 to 2.2.12 are not compatible with -other NFS client implemenations. If you plan to use Linux 2.2.x as an -NFS server for non-Linux NFS clients, you should get the Linux NFS -kernel from the Linux NFS CVS server: -1. Set the environment variable, CVS_RSH, to ssh. -2. Login to the Linux NFS CVS server: +0. PROJECT RESOURCES -# cvs -z 9 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org:/cvsroot/nfs login +Home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs/ -without password if it is your first time. +To use the 'gss' support you must have kerberos-5 development +libraries installed. +Otherwise use "--disable-gss" -3. Check out the current Linux 2.2 NFS kernel: +To use nfsv4 support you need libevent and libnfsidmap development +libraries. They are available from + http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ + http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/libnfsidmap/ +Otherwise use --disable-nfsv4 -# cvs -z 9 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org:/cvsroot/nfs co -r linux-2-2-nfsv2 linux-2.2 -4. If you don't want to use the current NFS kernel, you can find out -for which kernels the NFS patch is available: +1. COMPILING WITHOUT PACKAGE MANAGEMENT -# cd linux-2.2 -# cvs -z 9 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org:/cvsroot/nfs status -v Makefile +To compile without using a package management system, unpack the +sources and run these commands: -Then generate the kernel patch: + # ./configure + # make -# cvs -z 9 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org:/cvsroot/nfs rdiff -ko -u -r linux-2-2-xx -r linux-2-2-xx-nfsv2-xxxxx linux-2.2 +To install binaries and documenation, run this command: -If there is no NFS patch for the kernel you are interested in, you have -to make a patch closest to your kernel version and apply it by hand. + # make install -There is a Linux NFS kernel source tree for Linux 2.3, linux-2.3, on -the Linux NFS CVS server. However, it is not maintained. We will need -all the help we can get. To contribute to the Linux NFS project, please -go to +You will have to install the two NFS service scripts yourself. +Service scripts for RedHat 6.x and 7.x are in etc/redhat. They +have been tested on RedHat 6.2 and 7.1. -http://www.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org -and login as "beta" with password "beta4u". You register yourself. -please send an email to nfs-admin@linuxnfs.sourceforge.org with +2. COMPILING WITH RPM -1. Your user id on www.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org. -2. The area in NFS you'd like to work on. +On RedHat 6.2 and 7.1, you can use -You will be notified when it is done. + # rpm -ta nfs-utils-1.0.1.tar.gz -There is a Linux NFS mailing list at - -http://lists.varesearch.com/lists/listinfo/nfs/ - -You can subscribe it and search the mailing list archive via a web -browser. - -The nfs-utils package is avaible from the CVS server: - -# cvs -z 9 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org:/cvsroot/nfs co nfs-utils - -will get the latest version. - -The tar file is at - -ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/support/hjl/nfs/nfs-utils-0.1.tar.gz - -To compile, just do +to build the source and binary RPMs. -# ./configure -# make -# make install +3. COMPILING FOR DEBIAN -will install the nfs-utils binaries. You have to install the NFS -service scripts. There are 2 in etc/redhat provided for RedHat 6.x. -They are tested on RedHat 6.1. +The nfs-utils tree has an up-to-date debian directory, so the usual +debian build scripts should work. The simplest way to build binary +debs, however, is simply to become root (or use fakeroot) and run: -On RedHat 6.1, you can use + # debian/rules binary -# rpm -ta nfs-utils-0.1.tar.gz -to build the source and binary RPMs. +4. REQUIRED VERSIONS OF OTHER TOOLS -If your mount from util-linux is too old, you will need 2 patches: +Proper NFS operation requires a 'mount' program from util-linux 2.11f +or later. -ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/support/hjl/nfs/util-linux-2.9o-mount-nfsv3.patch -ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/support/hjl/nfs/util-linux-2.9w-mount-nfsv3try.patch -Thanks. +Share And Enjoy! + -- the nfs-utils developers + + 26 Dec 2001 -H.J. -hjl@lucon.org -10/18/99