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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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nfsd — NFS Daemon

Synopsis

/usr/lib/nfs/nfsd [-a][-c no-conn][-l listen-backlog][-p protocol]
  [-t device][nservers]

Description

The nfsd daemon handles client file-system requests. Only superuser can run this daemon.

The nfsd daemon is automatically invoked in run level 3 with the -a option.

By default, nfsd starts over the tcp and udp transports.

You must stop a previously invoked nfsd daemon that was started with or without options before you invoke another nfsd command.

Note

The NFS service uses kernel threads to process all of the NFS requests. Currently, system use associated with these threads is not charged to the nfsd process. Therefore, ps(1) may report 0 cpu time associated with the NFS daemon even though NFS processing is taking ...

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