X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?p=nfs-utils.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=502c6731669e0dd6773c6beb74617a4cb661aefe;hp=e0139693ae5b776627d0b20a0f4dca567a73b69a;hb=5206cbfa8934cb7331a840f3446d35cdbb795e34;hpb=d87d6123b6b619c2df75e0ccbf7b0a88dc6daaf8 diff --git a/README b/README index e013969..502c673 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,99 +1,55 @@ -This is the Linux NFS utility package version 0.1.6. 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 2.2.13 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. It is not required -for anonymous access. +0. PROJECT RESOURCES -2. Login to the Linux NFS CVS server: +Home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs/ -# cvs -z 3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.nfs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nfs login -without password if it is your first time. +1. COMPILING WITHOUT PACKAGE MANAGEMENT -3. Check out the current Linux 2.2 NFS kernel: +To compile without using a package management system, unpack the +sources and run these commands: -a. From the NFS V2 branch: + # ./configure + # make -# cvs -z 3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.nfs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nfs co -r linux-2-2-nfsv2 linux-2.2 +To install binaries and documenation, run this command: -b. From the main trunk: + # make install -# cvs -z 3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.nfs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nfs co linux-2.2 +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. -4. If you don't want to use the current NFS kernel, you can find out -for which kernels the NFS patch is available: -# cd linux-2.2 -# cvs -z 9 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.nfs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nfs status -v Makefile +2. COMPILING WITH RPM -Then generate the kernel patch: +On RedHat 6.2 and 7.1, you can use -# cvs -z 3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.nfs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nfs rdiff -ko -u -r linux-2-2-xx -r linux-2-2-xx-nfsv2-xxxxx linux-2.2 + # rpm -ta nfs-utils-1.0.1.tar.gz -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. - -There is a Linux NFS kernel source tree for Linux 2.3, linux-2.3, on -the Linux NFS CVS server. We will need all the help we can get. To -contribute to the Linux NFS project, please go to - -http://www.sourceforge.net - -You register yourself. Please send an email to -nfs-admin@nfs.sourceforge.net with - -1. Your user id on www.sourceforge.net. -2. The area in NFS you'd like to work on. - -You will be notified when it is done. - -There is a Linux NFS mailing list at - -http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/nfs/ -You can subscribe it and search the mailing list archive via a web -browser. - -The nfs-utils package is available from the CVS server: - -# cvs -z 3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.nfs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nfs co nfs-utils - -will get the latest version. - -The files are - -ftp://nfs.sourceforge.net/pub/nfs/nfs-utils-0.1.6.tar.gz -ftp://nfs.sourceforge.net/pub/nfs/nfs-utils-0.1.5-0.1.6.diff.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-0.1.6.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://nfs.sourceforge.net/pub/nfs/util-linux-2.9o-mount-nfsv3.patch -ftp://nfs.sourceforge.net/pub/nfs/util-linux-2.9w-mount-nfsv3try.patch -Thanks. +Share And Enjoy! + -- the nfs-utils developers + + 26 Dec 2001 -H.J. -hjl@lucon.org -01/11/2000