Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 22:57:26 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Studded@gorean.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What *exactly* does nfsiod do? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990617225617.14320y-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199906180308.XAA07478@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote,
> > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Studded wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > yes, "its server" refers to the machine that it's using files over NFS.
>
> You used 'it' again and it^H^H^H this version is not really much more
> clear. That first line the original poster quoted would read better
> as,
>
> "Nfsiod runs on an NFS client machine to service asynchronous I/O
> requests to the client machine's server."
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> As originially written, the 'its' is somewhat ambiguous. Does 'it' in
> the docs mean 'the client machine' or 'nfsiod?' If it means nsfiod,
> what that all means is none too clear.
>
> Worth a PR?
probably. :)
I was hoping that the rest of the text made what it did clear though.
oops,
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net]
systems administrator and programmer
Win Telecom - http://www.wintelcom.net/
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