Mounting File Systems on UNIX-based Instances
On Compute Cloud@Customer, instance users of UNIX based operating systems, such as Linux and Oracle Solaris, can use OS commands to mount and access file systems.
Mount targets serve as network access points for file systems. After your mount target is assigned an IP address, you can use it together with the export path to mount the file system.
On the instance from which you want to mount the file system, you need to install an NFS client package and create a mount point. When you mount the file system, the mount point effectively represents the root directory of the File Storage file system, allowing you to write files to the file system from the instance.
Prerequisites
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The file system must be created and have at least one export in a mount target. See Creating a File System, Mount Target, and Export.
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The mount target must have correctly configured security rules or be assigned to an NSG. See Configuring VCN Security Rules for File Storage.
Only for NFSv4 Mounts in Oracle Linux
instances – If you find that the file system owner is assigned as
nobody instead of the actual user who mounts the file system, and if you
haven't set identity squash, you might need to edit the /etc/idmapd.conf
file. In the file, set the DOMAIN entry to either localdomain or to the
Active Directory domain name, if applicable. After the change, run service rpcidmapd
restart to restart the rpcidmapd service.
Defining settings in the /etc/idmapd.conf file is specific to Oracle Linux, and there are other ways to configure the domain
depending on the OS in use. Consult your OS documentation.