NAME

nfsd, biod − NFS daemons (NFS only)

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 is a good number. 

Biod starts nservers asynchronous block I/O daemons.  This command is used on an NFS client to buffer cache handle read-ahead and write-behind. A workable number nservers 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

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

SEE ALSO

mountd(8C), exports(5)

PRPQs 5799-WZQ/5799-PFF: IBM/4.3  —  Sept 1988