nfsd(NADM)

nfsd -- NFS daemon

Synopsis

/usr/lib/nfs/nfsd [-a] [-p protocol] [-t transport]

Description

The nfsd command starts the daemons that handle client filesystem requests.

Options

The nfsd command takes the following options:

-a: Start nfsd's over all available transports.
-p protocol: Start nfsd's over the specified protocol.
-t transport: Start nfsd's for the transport specified by transport.

Files

.nfsXXX: Client machine pointer to an open-but-unlinked file (in the same directory as the original file).

Usage

The nfsd daemons are automatically invoked in run level 3.

One nfsd daemon exists for each networking protocol. Each daemon uses kernel threads to service the NFS^® requests coming from an NFS client over the transport on which it has been invoked. The kernel threads are created and deleted dynamically, depending on the rate of incoming requests. The maximum and minimum number of threads are controlled by the kernel tunables NFSD_MAX and NFSD_MIN, respectively.

Only a privileged user can execute this command.

References

biod(NADM), mountd(NADM), nfsping(NC), sharetab(F)