From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 17:55:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC1C14F94 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08090 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:55:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:55:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Studded X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What *exactly* does nfsiod do? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to debug some NFS issues with amd and I'm trying to figure out if nfsiod is helping me or hurting me. The man page says, Nfsiod runs on an NFS client machine to service asynchronous I/O requests to its server. It improves performance but is not required for correct operation. My confusion is about the meaning of "its server" in that sentence. If my machine is an NFS client only (i.e., it's using amd to automount directories on remote machines via NFS) does nfsiod come into play at all? And if not, when would it come into play, and which server is the man page referring to there? Thanks, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message