From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 20:57:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C04A14F23 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:57:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA10058; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:57:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 22:57:26 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Studded@gorean.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What *exactly* does nfsiod do? In-Reply-To: <199906180308.XAA07478@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> 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 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message