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

Did you try adding a check to your backup script that verifies the NFS file system is mounted? Maybe whatever you are using to start your containers could have a check added to that as well.

Version 4.1 of the Network File System protocol is now supported on Azure Files. It will be provided to customers in the form of a fully managed NFS file system as a service, in preview for now.

For years we have used Sun Solaris servers sharing filesytems (/home etc) via NFS to other Unix servers and Samba to users' desktops. This has worked extremely well but our primary file server is ...

NFS uses another program, portmapper, which shows the way to find all NFS services on the system. The very first guard to protect your machine from everlasting net requests uses a pair of files, ...

Files: quickly getting bigger. Networks: slowly getting faster. Something's got to give. Here's the scoop. Parallel NFS: standards-based parallel file serving The Network File System (NFS) is the ...

Solaris and other SVR4 versions of Unix provide file sharing through NFS and the /etc/dfs/dfstab file. The syntax of this particular file permits you to restrict file system sharing to a limited ...

The good news is the NFS file handle has enough room to store the extra information ReiserFS needs in order to find the file again later, and other kernel developers have written APIs to give the file ...

Solution: Thinking about NFS on my newly installed Solaris 10 server quickly drew my attention to the /etc/default/nfs file.