nfsd(1M)

NAME
     nfsd, biod - NFS daemons

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/etc/nfsd [ nservers ]
     /usr/etc/biod [ nservers ]

DESCRIPTION
     nfsd starts the nfs(4) server daemons that handle client filesystem
     requests.  Nservers is the number of file system request daemons to
     start.  This number should be based on the load expected on this server.
     Four seems to be a good number.

     Biod starts nservers asynchronous block I/O daemons.  This command is
     used on a NFS client to buffer cache handle read-ahead and write-behind.
     The magic number for nservers in here is also four.

     These daemons are started during system initialization from the
     /etc/init.d/network script if the configuration flag ``nfs'' is set on
     (see network(1M)).

     When a file that is opened by a client is unlinked (by the server), a
     file with a name of the form .nfsXXX (where XXX is a number) is created
     by the client.  When the open file is closed, the .nfsXXX file is
     removed.  If the client crashes before the file can be closed, the
     .nfsXXX file is not removed.

FILES
     .nfsXXX   client machine pointer to an open-but-unlinked file

SEE ALSO
     exportfs(1M), mountd(1M), network(1M), exports(4)