FedFsNfsServer0.9
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Project: fedfs-utils
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Introduction
A junction is a link between two shared file systems. Junctions tie together disparate filesystems to create a FedFS domain.
A junction stores a list of locations. When a client attempts to access a junction, a file server converts this list into a referral. Converting a junction's location list to a referral is known as junction resolution.
On Linux, a junction is denoted by a directory with special mode bits and an extended attribute that contains the junction location list. When the Linux in-kernel NFS server encounters a junction, it resolves the junction by performing an upcall to mountd. mountd reads the contents of the junction and converts them to information that the kernel NFS server can put on the wire as an NFSv4 referral.
This article describes how to configure a Linux NFS server to resolve junctions. Once a file server can resolve junctions in its local file systems, it can participate in a FedFS domain.
Build nfs-utils
On Fedora 19, rpc.mountd already has working junction resolution support. On other distributions, you'll need to build a version of rpc.mountd with working junction resolution support.
First, you'll need to install the nfs-plugin.h header.
The "make install" step should install the header in /usr/include/nfs-plugin.h . If not, you can find it in fedfs-utils-0.9/src/include/nfs-plugin.h and install it by hand.
Now download and unpack the latest nfs-utils tarball on the same system where you built fedfs-utils. Build nfs-utils, and replace rpc.mountd on your NFS server. The configure options are complicated; I usually copy them from the latest nfs-utils RPM spec file from my distribution.
$ ./configure yada yada $ make $ sudo install utils/mountd/mountd /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
Then restart the NFS service.
# systemctl restart nfs-server.service
