NAME
nfsd
- remote
NFS
server
SYNOPSIS
nfsd
[-6rut]
[-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:
- -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.
- -6
-
Listen to IPv6 requests as well as IPv4 requests. If IPv6 support is not
available, nfsd will silently continue and just use IPv4.
- -t
-
Serve
TCP NFS
clients.
- -u
-
Serve
UDP NFS
clients.
For example,
``
nfsd -t -u -n 6
''
serves
UDP
and
TCP
transports using six threads.
nfsd
listens for service requests at the port indicated in the
NFS
server specification; see
RFC 1094 and
The
nfsd
utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
nfsstat(1),
nfssvc(2),
mountd(8),
rpcbind(8)
HISTORY
The
nfsd
utility first appeared in
4.4BSD.