What is NFS?

NFS stands for Network File System, a file system developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. It is a client/server system that allows users to access files across a network and treat them as if they resided in a local file directory.

In this tutorial i want to install nfs in linux O/S
I found that few linux distro didn't include nfs as modules in the kernel.
so we will try to install nfs as modules in the linux kernel.

login as root

Make Menuconfig and Choose file Systems

#cd /usr/src/linux
#make menuconfig

File Systems --->
   Network File Systems --->
<M> NFS file system support
    [*]   Provide NFSv3 client support
<M> NFS server support
    [*]   Provide NFSv3 server support

Build Kernel Modules

#make modules && make modules_install

Load module on-the-fly

#modprobe nfs && modprobe nfsd

Modules loaded each time server boot

#vi /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
nfs
nfsd

You are done :)