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Debugging NFS File Access on Server and Client Side


In an environment where a lot of servers share same NFS mount, keeping track of which server created or deleted a file is important.  By default, NFS client configuration does not have an option for access logging in Linux distributions.  To mitigate this situation, you can use a utility called rpcdebug.
To see a list of all supported modules and flags:
# rpcdebug -vusage: rpcdebug [-v] [-h] [-m module] [-s flags…|-c flags…]
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