NFSD(8)                 COMMAND REFERENCE                 NFSD(8)



NAME
     nfsd, biod - NFS daemons

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/nfsd [nservers]

     /etc/biod [nservers]

DESCRIPTION
     The program nfsd starts the daemons that handle client file
     system 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.)

     The program 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.  The magic number
     for 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).






















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%%index%%
na:240,76;
sy:316,523;
de:839,1115;
fi:1954,172;
se:2126,159;
%%index%%000000000095