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nfs server

Q. How do I restart NFS server when network link goes down between two servers or NFS client / server under CentOS 4.x / RHEL / CentOS Linux 5.x? Forceful umount command result into more problems such as unresponsive NFS server and cold reboot only solves my problem.

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Q. What values can be tuned to improve NFS performance? How do I improve my NFS sever and client performance under Linux operating systems?

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Q. How do I install and configure NFS 4 Server under Ubuntu Linux ?
A. In order to set NFS server you need to install the following packages:
=> nfs-kernel-server – Linux NFS Server
=> nfs-common – NFS Common programs
=> portmap – The RPC portmapper

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Q. How do I mount NFS filesystem twice in two different dirs on same Linux client?
NFS Server : nfsserver:/data
Mount to dirs /home/data and /backup
A. You will not able to do that. However mount command has bind option to remount part of the file hierarchy somewhere else.
Procedure
First mount to /home/data
# mount -t nfs4 nfsserver:/data [...]

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