Introduction to file access

ECS allows you to configure object buckets for access as NFS file systems using NFSv3.

In the ECS Portal, you can make ECS buckets and the directories within them accessible as file systems to Unix users by:

creating NFS exports of ECS buckets and specifying the hosts that you want to be able to access the export.
mapping ECS object users/groups to Unix users/groups so that the Unix users can access the NFS export.

In the ECS Portal, you can make ECS buckets and the directories within them accessible as file systems to Unix users by:

creating NFS exports of ECS buckets and specifying the hosts that you want to be able to access the export.
mapping ECS object users/groups to Unix users/groups so that the Unix users can access the NFS export.

Mapping the ECS bucket owner to a Unix ID gives that Unix user permissions on the file system. In addition, ECS allows you to assign a default custom group to the bucket so that members of a Unix group mapped to the ECS default custom group can access the bucket.

ECS NFS supports:

multi-protocol access, so that files written using NFS can also be accessed using object protocols, and vice versa.
Kerberos security
advisory locking and locking over multiple sites as well as shared and exclusive locks.

ECS NFS supports:

multi-protocol access, so that files written using NFS can also be accessed using object protocols, and vice versa.
Kerberos security
advisory locking and locking over multiple sites as well as shared and exclusive locks.

The ECS NFS configuration tasks that you can perform in the ECS Portal can also be performed using the ECS Management REST API or CLI.