What are the NFS4 supported file systems on Linux

sampuch · 09-11-2015, 02:28 AM

Hi Techies,

Could you please help me to know the supported file systems for NFS4. I read in a blog and found that it is supported on ZFS only.

Is ext4 is not supported for NFS4?

I have ext4 partition on my RHEL NFS server and NFS client. I want to define the NFS4 share and to mount the same on NFS client and proceeding with ACL rules on NFS client using version4.

Thanks,
Sam

hortageno · 09-11-2015, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by sampuch

Hi Techies,

Could you please help me to know the supported file systems for NFS4. I read in a blog and found that it is supported on ZFS only.

Is ext4 is not supported for NFS4?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no such thing as "supported file systems for NFS4". You can export any folder on any file system as long as the server can access it. Of course, if you want to use ACL then the file system must support it. The client shouldn't care what file system the NFS share is on.

sampuch · 09-11-2015, 06:48 AM

Thank you Hortageno for the reply..

ACL is ideally well suited for native file systems on the server without any limitations.Actually i am looking to configure NFS4 server and want to apply acl on the NFS client using nfs4_setfacl and nfs4_getfacl commands.

As per my knowledge, there is no ACL support for the below versions like NFS3 and its overcome in NFS4. Above 2 commands can be accessible by installing nfs4-acl-tools package.

Thanks,
Sam