source: postlfs/config/netfs.xml@ c67971c

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<sect1 id="postlfs-config-netfs"  xreflabel="Configuring for Network Filesystems">
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<?dbhtml filename="netfs.html"?>
<title>Configuring for Network Filesystems</title>

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<indexterm zone="postlfs-config-netfs postlfs-config-netfs">
  <primary sortas="f-netfs">netfs</primary>
</indexterm>

<para>While LFS is capable of mounting network file
systems such as NFS, these are not mounted by the
<filename>mountfs</filename> init script. Network file systems must be 
mounted after the networking is activated and unmounted before the network 
goes down.  The <filename>netfs</filename> bootscript was written to 
handle both boot-time mounting of network filesystems, if the entry in 
<filename>/etc/fstab</filename> contains the <option>_netdev</option>
option, and unmounting of all network filesystems before the network is 
brought down.</para>

<para>As the root user, install the <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs</filename>
bootscript included with the <xref linkend="intro-important-bootscripts"/>
package.</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>make install-netfs</userinput></screen>

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