September 2009
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NFS server daemons, called nfsd daemons, run on the server and accept RPC calls from clients. NFS servers also run the mountd daemon to handle mount requests. On the client, caching and buffering are handled by biod, the block I/O daemon. The rpcbind daemon maps RPC program numbers to the appropriate TCP/IP port numbers. If the rpcbind daemon is not running properly, NFS will not work either. On older systems rpcbind is named portmap.