Whether you need more disk space or an easy way to share files on your network, you can turn to NFS, a distributed filesystem for which support is integrated in the Linux kernel.

If you need to share or transfer files between Linux machines, you have plenty of options. Here are some you might not have considered.

I have a situation where I need to force a Red Hat Enterprise AS 2x machine to export a fileysystem via nfs. This is going through a firewall and needs to be forced to use tcp only. Also, is there a ...

Your array is RAID-6, which performs relatively poorly with small atomic writes. Your NFS file-system is set up as SYNC, which means that the I/O has to get to the server's disk before the write is ...