nfsd(NADM)                      19 June 1992                      nfsd(NADM)


 Name

    nfsd - nfsd, biod - NFS daemons

 Syntax

    /etc/nfsd [nservers]

    /etc/biod [nservers]

 Description

    nfsd starts the NFS server daemons that handle client filesystem
    requests.  The nfsd daemon serves as a user application entry point into
    the kernel-based NFS server.  Nservers is the number of filesystem
    request daemons to start.  This number should be based on the load
    expected on this server.

    biod, run on an NFS client, starts nservers asynchronous block I/O dae-
    mons, which do read-ahead and write-behind of blocks from the client's
    buffer cache.  Its primary function is to increase the performance of
    block I/O operations on remote file system.

 See also

    mountd(NADM), exports(NF)