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Setting up DFS

Changing the file sharing package default

So that the system can distinguish between local and remote file system types, the distributed file system packages you have installed must be ``registered''. When you install NFS, the installation script creates the fstypes file in directory /etc/dfs and populates it. If the file already exists when you install the package, the installation script adds a line to the file:

   nfs Network File System Utilities: Version number
where number indicates the version number of the package installed.

The package indicated in the first line of the file becomes your default file sharing package. If you enter DFS Administration commands without specifying a package (or file system type), the system assumes the first entry in the /etc/dfs/fstypes file. Therefore, if you know that you will administer one package more frequently than the other, make that the first entry in the file. This saves you from specifying the package every time you enter a DFS command.

To change the default package, edit the file using any supported text editor.


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