NAME
nfsd —
remote NFS server
SYNOPSIS
nfsd |
[-46drut]
[-n
num_threads] |
DESCRIPTION
nfsd runs on a server machine to service NFS requests from
client machines. At least one
nfsd must be running for a
machine to operate as a server.
Unless otherwise specified, four servers for UDP transport are started.
The following options are available:
-
-
- -d
- Turn on debugging, don't fork and log to stderr.
-
-
- -r
- Register the NFS service with
rpcbind(8) without creating
any servers. This option can be used along with the -u
or -t options to re-register NFS if the portmap server
is restarted.
-
-
- -n
- Specifies how many server threads to create. The default is
4. A server should run enough threads to handle the maximum level of
concurrency from its clients.
-
-
- -4
- Only listen to IPv4 requests. By default
nfsd listens to both IPv6 and IPv4 and tries to register
for both.
-
-
- -6
- Only listen to IPv6 requests.
-
-
- -t
- Serve only TCP NFS clients. By default
nfsd serves both TCP NFS and UDP NFS clients
-
-
- -u
- Serve only UDP NFS clients.
nfsd listens for service requests at the port indicated in the
NFS server specification; see
Network File System Protocol
Specification, RFC 1094 and
NFS: Network File System
Version 3 Protocol Specification.
EXIT STATUS
The
nfsd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an
error occurs.
EXAMPLES
“
nfsd -n 6
” serves UDP and TCP transports
using six threads.
SEE ALSO
nfsstat(1),
nfssvc(2),
mountd(8),
rpcbind(8)
HISTORY
The
nfsd utility first appeared in
4.4BSD.