man pages section 5: File Formats

dfstab(5)

Name

dfstab - file containing commands for sharing resources across a network

Description

This file is obsolete in the Oracle Solaris 11 release.

Adding share entries to the /etc/dfs/dfstab file is no longer required to permanently share files across a network. File systems are shared in the following ways:

• The share command is used to create and publish a NFS or SMB share of a file system or directory. Using the share command to share a ZFS file system is considered a legacy operation.

• The zfs set share command is used to establish NFS or SMB share properties for a ZFS dataset. Then, set the ZFS sharenfs or sharesmb to on to publish an NFS or SMB share.

An NFS or SMB share is published automatically when a system is rebooted by an SMF service. Because an SMF service manages NFS or SMB shares, editing the /etc/dfs/dfstab file is obsolete.

For more information, see the share(8) manual page.

Attributes

See attributes(7) for a description of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Interface Stability Obsolete

See Also

attributes(7), share(8), share_nfs(8), share_smb(8), shareall(8), svcadm(8), zfs(8)