Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:54:05 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@gorean.org> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What *exactly* does nfsiod do? Message-ID: <3769C2DD.DC6BA2D3@gorean.org> References: <199906180308.XAA07478@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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"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." > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sorry I wasn't more clear. I know that "its" seems to refer to the client machine. What I'm confused about is what server on the client machine is supposed to be servicing requests. NFS client requests don't depend on any server on the client machine. My guess is that nfsiod takes ownership of one remote server and services requests from the client to that server, making "its server" refer to the server that nfsiod has taken "ownership" of. But that is just a guess. And yes, I think that once we do figure out what this means exactly someone should do a PR with better wording.... I can do it if no one else wants to. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Nominated for quote of the year is the statement made by Representative Dick Armey (Texas), who when asked if he were in the President's place, would he resign, responded: "If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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