biod(8) — AIX PS/2 1.2.1



BIOD(8,C)                   AIX Commands Reference                    BIOD(8,C)



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biod



PURPOSE

biod -NFS daemons.

SYNTAX


             +------------+
/etc/biod ---|            |---|
             +- nservers -+


Note:  This command does not have MBCS support.

DESCRIPTION

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

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
crashed before the file can be closed, the .nfsXXX file is not removed.

FLAG

nservers
       The number of file system request daemons to start.  This number should
       be based on the load expected on this server.  Four is a typical number.

FILES

.nfsXXX
       Client machine pointer to an open-but-unlinked file.
















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