X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?p=nfs-utils.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=7f18118e98fd40a3e49c1efe7e085e7902aa7c07;hp=3907f311a10e69b2d8650c079262d7ce301c2e8a;hb=1ab6d3b82e9d36051cf5d80c33cdec9cb638bb20;hpb=ccacfd027835ff5a0726e4687f0e4d66bb010194 diff --git a/README b/README index 3907f31..7f18118 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,100 +1,51 @@ -This is the Linux NFS utility package version 0.1.7. 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 +To use the 'gss' support you must have kerberos-5 development +libraries installed. +Otherwise use "--disable-gss" -without password if it is your first time. +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 -3. Check out the current Linux 2.2 NFS kernel: -a. From the NFS V2 branch: +1. COMPILING -# cvs -z 3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.nfs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nfs co -r linux-2-2-nfsv2 linux-2.2 +Unpack the sources and run these commands: -b. From the main trunk: + # ./configure + # make -# cvs -z 3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.nfs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nfs co linux-2.2 +To install binaries and documenation, run this command: -4. If you don't want to use the current NFS kernel, you can find out -for which kernels the NFS patch is available: + # make install -# cd linux-2.2 -# cvs -z 9 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.nfs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nfs status -v Makefile -Then generate the kernel patch: +2. COMPILING FROM GIT -# 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 +Getting nfs-utils for the first time: -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. + git clone git://linux-nfs.org/nfs-utils -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 +Updating to the latest head after you've already got it. -http://www.sourceforge.net + git pull -You register yourself. Please send an email to -nfs-admin@nfs.sourceforge.net with +Building requires that autotools be installed. To invoke them +simply -1. Your user id on www.sourceforge.net. -2. The area in NFS you'd like to work on. + sh autogen.sh -You will be notified when it is done. +Finally, build as usual as above. -There is a Linux NFS mailing list at +Share And Enjoy! -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-0.1.7.tar.gz -ftp://nfs.sourceforge.net/pub/nfs/nfs-utils-0.1.6-0.1.7.diff.gz - -To compile, just do - -# ./configure -# make - -# 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. - -On RedHat 6.1, you can use - -# rpm -ta nfs-utils-0.1.7.tar.gz - -to build the source and binary RPMs. - -If your mount from util-linux is too old, you will need 3 patches: - -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 -ftp://nfs.sourceforge.net/pub/nfs/util-linux-2.10f-mount-rpc.patch - -Thanks. - - -H.J. -hjl@lucon.org -04/25/2000 + -- the nfs-utils developers +