NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Introduction
New Features in NFS
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For information on how to enable client-side failover, see “Enabling
Client-Side Failover” on page 79.
Replicated Filesystems
A replicated filesystem contains the corresponding directory structures
and identical files. A replica (identical copy) of a filesystem consists of
files of the same size and same file type as the original filesystem.
HP recommends that you create these replicated filesystems using the
rdist utility.
The rdist utility enables you to maintain identical copies of files on
multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, modification time of
files, and updates programs that are running.
Enhanced NFS Logging
The NFS server logging enables an NFS server to provide a record of file
operations that are performed on its filesystems. The record includes
information about the file accessed, time of access, and the users who
accessed the files. You can also specify the location of the logs that
contain this information. This feature is useful for sites that make
anonymous FTP archives available to NFS and WebNFS clients.
IPv6 Support
NFS supports filesystem mounting over an IPv4 or an IPv6 address
where square brackets enclose the IPv6 address.
The nsquery feature supports ipnodes lookup request and provides
support to lookup IPv6 data in the backend libraries.