NAME¶
rpc.nfsd - NFS server process
SYNOPSIS¶
/usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd [options] nproc
DESCRIPTION¶
The
rpc.nfsd program implements the user level part of the NFS service.
The main functionality is handled by the
nfsd kernel module. The user
space program merely specifies what sort of sockets the kernel service should
listen on, what NFS versions it should support, and how many kernel threads it
should use.
The
rpc.mountd server provides an ancillary service needed to satisfy
mount requests by NFS clients.
OPTIONS¶
- -d or --debug
- enable logging of debugging messages
- -H or --host hostname
- specify a particular hostname (or address) that NFS
requests will be accepted on. By default, rpc.nfsd will accept NFS
requests on all known network addresses. Note that lockd (which
performs file locking services for NFS) may still accept request on all
known network addresses. This may change in future releases of the Linux
Kernel.
- -p or --port port
- specify a different port to listen on for NFS requests. By
default, rpc.nfsd will listen on port 2049.
- -N or --no-nfs-version vers
- This option can be used to request that rpc.nfsd
does not offer certain versions of NFS. The current version of
rpc.nfsd can support both NFS version 2,3 and the newer version
4.
- -s or --syslog
- By default, rpc.nfsd logs error messages (and debug
messages, if enabled) to stderr. This option makes rpc.nfsd log
these messages to syslog instead. Note that errors encountered during
option processing will still be logged to stderr regardless of this
option.
- -T or --no-tcp
- Disable rpc.nfsd from accepting TCP connections from
clients.
- -U or --no-udp
- Disable rpc.nfsd from accepting UDP connections from
clients.
- nproc
- specify the number of NFS server threads. By default, just
one thread is started. However, for optimum performance several threads
should be used. The actual figure depends on the number of and the work
load created by the NFS clients, but a useful starting point is 8 threads.
Effects of modifying that number can be checked using the
nfsstat(8) program.
Note that if the NFS server is already running, then the options for specifying
host, port, and protocol will be ignored. The number of processes given will
be the only option considered, and the number of active
nfsd processes
will be increased or decreased to match this number. In particular
rpc.nfsd
0 will stop all threads and thus close any open connections.
NOTES¶
If the program is built with TI-RPC support, it will enable any protocol and
address family combinations that are marked visible in the
netconfig
database.
SEE ALSO¶
nfsd(7),
rpc.mountd(8),
exports(5),
exportfs(8),
rpc.rquotad(8),
nfsstat(8),
netconfig(5).
AUTHOR¶
Olaf Kirch, Bill Hawes, H. J. Lu, G. Allan Morris III, and a host of
others.