November 2004
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 12m
English
book
Securing NFS in AIX An Introduction to NFS v4 in AIX 5L Version 5.3
by Chris Almond, Lutz Denefleh, Sridhar Murthy, Aniket Patel, John Trindle
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Chapter 2. What’s new in NFS V4? 17
2.3.6 The block I/O daemon (biod)
The block I/O daemon (biod) runs on all NFS client systems. When a user on a
client wants to read or write to a file on a server, the biod daemon sends this
request to the server. For each read or write request, one biod is requested. The
biod daemon is activated during system startup and runs continuously. The
number of biods are limited on a per-mount-point basis.
The actual work of reading and writing to a file on a server is handled by a
multi-threaded kernel process with one thread assigned for each read or write
request. The number of these threads changes dynamically depending on
demand, but the biod daemon controls the maximum number of these threads
per mount.
2.4 ...
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