Create an NFS file share with default settings - Amazon Storage Gateway
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Create an NFS file share with default settings

This section explains how to create an NFS file share using the default settings.

Create an NFS file share

Use the following procedure to quickly create a Network File System (NFS) file share with default settings.

  1. Open the Amazon Storage Gateway console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/storagegateway/home/ and choose File shares from the left navigation pane.

  2. Choose Create file share to open the File share settings page.

  3. For Gateway, choose your Amazon S3 File Gateway from the list.

  4. For File share type, choose Network File System (NFS).

  5. For S3 bucket, you can pick an existing Amazon S3 bucket in your account or create a new one using Create new S3 bucket. Choose the Region where the Amazon S3 endpoint is located and set a unique bucket name in S3 bucket name.

    For information about creating a new bucket, see How do I create an S3 bucket? in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

    If you want to connect to a bucket in another account, choose A bucket in another account from the drop downlist. Enter the name of the crossaccount bucket in Cross-account bucket name.

  6. Choose Create file share to create an NFS file share with default settings described in the next section.

Note

Using S3 Versioning, Cross-Region Replication, or the Rsync utility when uploading data from a File Gateway can have significant cost implications. For more information, see Avoiding unanticipated costs when uploading data from File Gateway.

NFS file share default settings

The NFS file share that you created in the previous section uses the default settings listed in the table below.

Note

By default, the workflow described in the previous section provides full control to the owner of the S3 bucket that maps to the NFS file share. For more information about using your file share to access objects in a bucket that's owned by another account, see Using a file share for cross-account access.

Setting Default value Notes

Amazon S3 location

The file share is connected directly to the Amazon S3 bucket and has the same name as the bucket. Your gateway uses this bucket to store and retrieve files.

The name does not include a prefix.

Amazon PrivateLink for S3

The file share is not connected to Amazon S3 through an interface endpoint in your virtual private cloud (VPC).

File upload notification

Off

Storage class for new objects

S3 Standard

This lets you store your frequently accessed object data redundantly in multiple Availability Zones that are geographically separated. For more information about the S3 Standard storage class, see Storage classes for frequently accessed objects in the Amazon Simple Storage Service User Guide.

Object metadata

 Guess MIME type

This allows Storage Gateway to guess the MIME type for uploaded objects based on file extensions.


This option requires that Access Control Lists (ACLs) are turned on
 for the S3 bucket associated with your file share. If ACLs are
 turned off, the file share will not be able to access the Amazon S3 bucket, and will remain in the Unavailable state
 indefinitely.




Enable requester pays

Off

For more information, see Requester Pays buckets.

Audit logs

Off

Logging in to an Amazon CloudWatch group is turned off by default.

Access to your S3 bucket

Create a new IAM role


The default option allows the File Gateway to create a new IAM role and access
 policy on your behalf. All NFS clients are allowed access. For information about supported
 NFS clients, see Supported NFS clients for File Gateway.


Mount options

  • Squash level – Root squash

  • Export as – Read-write

The default value of Squash level means that
 access for the remote
 superuser (root) is mapped to UID (65534) and GID (65534).

File metadata defaults

  • Directory permissions – 0777

  • File permissions – 0666

  • User ID – 65534

  • Group ID – 65534

After your NFS file share is created, you can see your file share settings on the Details tab of the new file share.

Mount your NFS file share on your client