nfsd(1M)                       NFS                       nfsd(1M)



NAME
     nfsd, biod - NFS daemons

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/nfsd [nservers]

     /etc/biod [nservers]

DESCRIPTION
     nfsd starts the daemons that handle client filesystem
     requests.  nservers is the number of file system request
     daemons to start.  This number should be based on the load
     expected on this server.  Four seems to be a good number.

     biod starts nservers asynchronous block I/O daemons.  This
     command is used on a NFS client to buffer cache handle
     read-ahead and write-behind.  The magic number for nservers
     in here is also four.

     When a file that is opened by a client is unlinked (by the
     server), a file with a name of the form .nfsXXX (where XXX
     is a number) is created by the client.  When the open file
     is closed, the .nfsXXX file is removed.  If the client
     crashes before the file can be closed, the .nfsXXX file is
     not removed.

FILES
     client machine pointer to an open-but-unlinked file

SEE ALSO
     mountd(1M), exports(4)
























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