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CONFIG_NFSD: NFS server support

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The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_NFSD has multiple definitions:

NFS server support found in fs/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_NFSD:

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If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is faster.

In either case, you will need support software; the respective locations are given in the file Documentation/Changes in the NFS section.

If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question as well.

Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto.

To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.

NFS server support found in fs/nfsd/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_NFSD:

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Choose Y here if you want to allow other computers to access files residing on this system using Sun's Network File System protocol. To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called nfsd.

You may choose to use a user-space NFS server instead, in which case you can choose N here.

To export local file systems using NFS, you also need to install user space programs which can be found in the Linux nfs-utils package, available from http://linux-nfs.org/. More detail about the Linux NFS server implementation is available via the exports(5) man page.

Below you can choose which versions of the NFS protocol are available to clients mounting the NFS server on this system. Support for NFS version 2 (RFC 1094) is always available when NFSD is selected.

If unsure, say N.

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