About NFS Sharing

You can manage Network File System (NFS) directories in file systems.

If at least part of a stand-alone, archiving, or shared file system is shared with the NFS service, the Description column on the File Systems Summary page displays the nfs-shared value. For more information about the NFS service, see the NFS documentation.

For a whole file system to be NFS shared, the mount point of the file system must be a shared NFS directory. For part of a file system to be NFS shared, a subdirectory of its mount point must be a shared NFS directory.


Note - If you create a file system and you specify a shared NFS directory as the mount point, you must mount the file system at boot time in the New File System wizard. Otherwise, NFS automatically shares the directory, possibly preventing you from mounting the file system at a later time.


When a file system is NFS shared, remote servers in the network can mount the NFS directories on the file system, assuming the servers have the NFS service enabled. This is the equivalent of using the mount_nfs command. For more information, see the mount_nfs(1M) man page.

The browser interface supports the addition and removal of NFS directories to and from file systems. In addition, the browser interface supports the ability to change the options of the NFS directories and change the status of the directories to shared or unshared.

The browser interface does not support the NFS automount feature (autofs). For more information, see the NFS automount(1M) man page.