Enabling and Disabling Direct NFS Client Control of NFS

Use these commands to enable or disable Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Manager Control of NFS:

By default, Direct NFS Client is installed in a disabled state with single-instance Oracle Database installations. Before enabling Direct NFS, you must configure an oranfstab file.

Enabling Direct NFS Client Control of NFS

  1. Change the directory to $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib.

  2. Enter the following command:

    make -f ins_rdbms.mk dnfs_on

Disabling Direct NFS Client Control of NFS

  1. Log in as the Oracle software installation owner, and disable Direct NFS Client using the following commands:

    cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib
    make -f ins_rdbms.mk dnfs_off
  2. Remove the oranfstab file.

Note:

If you remove an NFS path that an Oracle Database is using, then you must restart the database for the change to take effect.