X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?p=nfs-utils.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=52b0e74c8fa99b1bdad260ca5f325f50afff44cc;hp=6c460b4cefe9e192d4687149304de286f486ad44;hb=a19d80373216f3257c1b5ef59e41279f94744377;hpb=0d9401717fbe56ac58600fa38786a930b325d732 diff --git a/README b/README index 6c460b4..52b0e74 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,72 +1,8 @@ -This is the Linux NFS utility package version 0.1.4. It is based on -knfsd 1.4.7. +This is the Linux NFS utility package version 0.2.1. -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: +The nfs-utils package is available via the Linux NFS web page is at -1. Set the environment variable, CVS_RSH, to ssh. -2. Login to the Linux NFS CVS server: - -# cvs -z 3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org:/cvsroot/nfs login - -without password if it is your first time. - -3. Check out the current Linux 2.2 NFS kernel: - -a. From the NFS V2 branch: - -# cvs -z 3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org:/cvsroot/nfs co -r linux-2-2-nfsv2 linux-2.2 - -b. From the main trunk: - -# cvs -z 3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org:/cvsroot/nfs co 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: - -# cd linux-2.2 -# cvs -z 9 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org:/cvsroot/nfs status -v Makefile - -Then generate the kernel patch: - -# cvs -z 3 -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 - -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.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org - -You register yourself. Please send an email to -nfs-admin@linuxnfs.sourceforge.org with - -1. Your user id on www.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org. -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.varesearch.com/lists/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.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org:/cvsroot/nfs co nfs-utils - -will get the latest version. - -The files are - -ftp://ftp.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org/pub/nfs/nfs-utils-0.1.4.tar.gz -ftp://ftp.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org/pub/nfs/nfs-utils-0.1.3-0.1.4.diff.gz +http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs/ To compile, just do @@ -76,23 +12,27 @@ To compile, just do # make install 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. +service scripts. There are 2 in etc/redhat provided for RedHat 6.x +and 7.0. They are tested on RedHat 6.2 and 7.0. -On RedHat 6.1, you can use +On RedHat 6.2 and 7.0, you can use -# rpm -ta nfs-utils-0.1.4.tar.gz +# rpm -ta nfs-utils-0.2.1.tar.gz to build the source and binary RPMs. -If your mount from util-linux is too old, you will need 2 patches: +util-linux 2.10m or above is required. But the following patches may +also be needed: + +ftp://nfs.sourceforge.net/pub/nfs/util-linux-2.10f-mount-tcp.patch +ftp://nfs.sourceforge.net/pub/nfs/util-linux-2.10m-mount-compat.patch +ftp://nfs.sourceforge.net/pub/nfs/util-linux-2.10m-mount-nfsv3.patch +ftp://nfs.sourceforge.net/pub/nfs/util-linux-2.10m-mount-rpc.patch -ftp://ftp.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org/pub/nfs/util-linux-2.9o-mount-nfsv3.patch -ftp://ftp.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org/pub/nfs/util-linux-2.9w-mount-nfsv3try.patch Thanks. H.J. hjl@lucon.org -12/06/99 +09/27/2000