NFS(4) NFS(4)
NAME
nfs - Sun network file system client
SYNOPSIS
nfs [ -DRv ] [ -p perm ] [ -s srvname ] [ -u passwd group ]
addr1 [ addr2 ]
aux/portmap [ -R ] host cmd
aux/nfsmount [ -R ] host cmd
DESCRIPTION
Nfs translates between the Sun network file system protocol
(NFS) and 9P, allowing 9P clients to mount file systems on
NFS servers. NFS servers comprise two separate services: a
mount service used to obtain the initial file handle, and a
file service used to perform actual file system operations.
The Sun port mapper service is typically used to find these
two services. If one address is given, it is taken to be
the address of a port mapper service; nfs queries the port
mapper to find the addresses of the NFS mount service and
file service. If two addresses are given, the port mapper
is bypassed; addr1 is used as the address of the NFS mount
service, and addr2 is used as the address of the file ser-
vice.
The options are:
-D print all 9P messages.
-R print all NFS messages.
-v print verbose information about session startup.
-p perm
set the posted service file to have mode perm, which is
assumed to be octal; the default is 600.
-s srvname
post the service as /srv/srvname; the default is
/srv/addr1.
-u passwd group
translate user and group names using the passwd and
group files, which are in the traditional Unix format.
The translation is used to present names for user and
group in stat(5) and wstat messages. The translation
is also used to choose the user and group credentials
to present for a user. Without this option, users and
groups are presented as decimal numbers, and everyone
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attaches as uid -1 (nobody on most Unix systems).
Portmap and nfsmount are test programs to perform port map-
per and NFS mount RPCs. They are useful mainly to help
debug problems with starting nfs itself. The -R option
causes them to print all RPC messages sent and received.
Portmap queries a Sun RPC portmap server, which maps integer
(program, version, protocol) triples to port numbers. Pro-
gram and version are Sun RPC defined, while protocol is typ-
ically TCP (6) or UDP (17). The commands are:
null a no-op
dump print the entire map
set prog vers proto port
add an entry to (or replace an entry in) the map
unset prog vers proto port
remove an entry from the map
getport prog vers proto
look for an entry with prog, vers, proto in the map,
and return the corresponding port The default command
is dump. For running NFS over UDP, there must be an
entry for the NFS v3 mount daemon (100005, 3, 17) and
the NFS v3 server itself (100003, 3, 17).
Nfsmount queries a Sun NFS mount server, which authenticates
(ha!) connections and hands out file handles naming the
root of an exported file system. This handle is used as the
basis for a conversation with the NFS service daemon itself.
The commands are:
null a no-op
export
dump the export table; each line is a path followed by
a list of machines or groups allowed to mount that path
mnt path
attempt to acquire a file handle for path. the request
has user and group id 1001 and `gnot' as the system
name.
umnt path
notify the mount daemon that a particular path is being
unmounted by the requesting system
umntall
notify the mount daemon that all paths mounted by the
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requesting system are being unmounted
dump should also dump an export table, but typically does
nothing
EXAMPLE
We use this in our /rc/bin/9fs script to mount all the home
directories served by bopp:
case bopp
if(! test -f /srv/bopp)
nfs -p 666 -u /lib/ndb/1127.passwd /lib/ndb/1127.group bopp
unmount /n/bopp >[2]/dev/null
for(i in u0 u1 u2 u3 u4 u5 u6 u7 u8 u9)
mount -a /srv/bopp /n/bopp /$i
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/nfs.c
/sys/src/libsunrpc
SEE ALSO
nfsserver(8), srv(4)
BUGS
The authentication employed by NFS is laughable. The server
simply trusts the uid, gid, and group list presented by the
client.
Nfs speaks only NFS version 3. Older operating systems typ-
ically have reasonable NFS version 2 servers but crash when
serving version 3.
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