NFS Mounts on Leopard / MAC OS

NFS mounts are now added using Disk Utility. To add a Linux-hosted NFS share do the following:

1. Start Disk Utility
2. Select NFS Mounts from the File menu
3. Click the plus sign in the lower left corner
4. Enter in your remote NFS URL info as described
5. Enter the mount point. If you add it to /Network, then it will show up in the Shared section of Finder, in an entry called All.
6. If you’re using secure ports on your server, then click the Advanced option and enter -P
7. Click Verify
8. Save your settings

for those of you asking about iscsi -

ZFS wasn’t the only AWOL storage technology in Apple’s OS X 10.5 – early builds of Leopard included a built-in iSCSI initiator. When the operating system was finally released in October of 2007, both ZFS and iSCSI were quietly dropped.  Both Microsoft and Linux offer native iSCSI client implementations and Apple is lagging behind here.

In the mean time, those seeking iSCSI connectivity within Mac OS X do have third-party options to consider:

• Studio Network Solutions offers a free  iSCSI initiator for OS X Tiger and Leopard. The globalSAN iSCSI Initiator is the client-side portion of their SANmp storage sharing solution, and purports to support most of the required protocols. In practice, however, the company cannot support other targets than their own.