The NFS server configuration
To configure the NFS server, we choose which directories we want to share. The terminology used in NFS to share a directory is to export the directory; therefore, shared directories are known as exports.
To permanently export a directory, we add the configuration to the /etc/exports file. This file exists, but will be empty on a new system. The nfs-server service will read this file on startup to determine which directories should be available to the network client. If /etc/exports is changed, reloading the nfs-server service will force the service to reread the file, as shown in the following command line:
$ sudo systemctl reload nfs-server
To display the current exports on the server, we can use the exportfs or
Get Learning RHEL Networking now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
