NAME

nfsd — remote NFS server

SYNOPSIS

nfsd	[-46rut] [-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.

-4

Only listen to IPv4 requests. By default nfsd listens to both IPv6 and IPv4 and tries to register for both.

-6

Only listen to IPv6 requests.

-t

Serve only TCP NFS clients. By default nfsd serves both TCP NFS and UDP NFS clients

-u

Serve only UDP NFS clients.

nfsd listens for service requests at the port indicated in the NFS server specification; see Network File System Protocol Specification, RFC 1094 and NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification.

EXIT STATUS

The nfsd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

“nfsd -n 6” serves UDP and TCP transports using six threads.

SEE ALSO

nfsstat(1), nfssvc(2), mountd(8), rpcbind(8)

HISTORY

The nfsd utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.