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
-uor-toptions 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
nfsdlistens 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
nfsdserves 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
HISTORY
The nfsd utility first appeared in
4.4BSD.