1NFS.CONF(5) File Formats Manual NFS.CONF(5)
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6 nfs.conf - general configuration for NFS daemons and tools
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9 /etc/nfs.conf
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12 This file contains site-specific configuration for various NFS daemons
13 and other processes. Most configuration can also be passed to pro‐
14 cesses via command line arguments, but it can be more convenient to
15 have a central file. In particular, this encourages consistent config‐
16 uration across different processes.
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18 When command line options are provided, they override values set in
19 this file. When this file does not specify a particular parameter, and
20 no command line option is provided, each tool provides its own default
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23 The file format supports multiple sections, each of which can contain
24 multiple value assignments. A section is introduced by a line contain‐
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27 would introduce a section called global. A value assignment is a sin‐
28 gle line that has the name of the value, an equals sign, and a setting
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32 and trailing spaces and tab are ignored, as are spaces and tabs sur‐
33 rounding the equals sign. Single and double quotes surrounding the
34 assigned value are also removed. If the resulting string is empty, the
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41 cesses environment (see environ(7)). The value found is used for this
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44 The value name include is special. If a section contains
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47 there-in will be added to the current section. If the file contains
48 section headers, then new sections will be created just as if the
49 included file appeared in place of the include line.
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60 the given named values. Most sections can also contain a debug value,
61 which can be one or more from the list general, call, auth, parse, all.
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65 Recognized values: pipefs-directory.
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67 See blkmapd(8), rpc.idmapd(8), and rpc.gssd(8) for details.
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71 Recognized values: rootdir.
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73 Setting rootdir to a valid path causes the nfs server to act as
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75 entries. For instance, if rootdir=/my/root, and there is an
76 entry in /etc/exports for /filesystem, then the client will be
77 able to mount the path as /filesystem, but on the server, this
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84 The nfsdcltrack program is run directly by the Linux kernel and
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90 nfsd Recognized values: threads, host, port, grace-time, lease-time,
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94 above, and are also used by rpc.mountd. Threads and the two
95 times are integers. port and rdma are service names or numbers.
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103 [nfsd] section, are used to configure mountd. See rpc.mountd(8)
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128 machine-creds, use-gss-proxy, avoid-dns, limit-to-legacy-enc‐
129 types, context-timeout, rpc-timeout, keytab-file, cred-cache-
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136 Recognized values: principal.
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149 nfsdcltrack(8), rpc.nfsd(8), rpc.mountd(8), nfsmount.conf(5).
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