SYNPOSIS
mount -t nfsd nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd
DESCRIPTION
The nfsd filesytem is a special filesystem which provides access to the
Linux NFS server. The filesystem consists of a single directory which
contains a number of files. These files are actually gateways into the
NFS server. Writing to them can affect the server. Reading from them
can provide information about the server.
This file system is only available in Linux 2.6 and later series ker-
nels (and in the later parts of the 2.5 development series leading up
to 2.6). This man page does not apply to 2.4 and earlier.
As well as this filesystem, there are a collection of files in the
procfs filesystem (normally mounted at /proc) which are used to control
the NFS server. This manual page describes all of these files.
The exportfs and mountd programs (part of the nfs-utils package) expect
to find this filesystem mounted at /proc/fs/nfsd or /proc/fs/nfs. If
it is not mounted, they will fall-back on 2.4 style functionality.
This involves accessing the NFS server via a systemcall. This system-
call is scheduled to be removed after the 2.6 kernel series.
DETAILS
The three files in the nfsd filesystem are:
exports
This file contains a list of filesystems that are currently
exported and clients that each filesystem is exported to,
together with a list of export options for that client/filesys-
tem pair. This is similar to the /proc/fs/nfs/exports file in
2.4. One difference is that a client doesn't necessarily corre-
spond to just one host. It can respond to a large collection of
hosts that are being treated identically.
Each line of the file contains a path name, a client name, and a
number of options in parentheses. Any space, tab, newline or
back-slash character in the path name or client name will be
replaced by a backslash followed by the octal ASCII code for
that character.
threads
This file represents the number of nfsd thread currently run-
ning. Reading it will show the number of threads. Writing an
ASCII decimal number will cause the number of threads to be
changed (increased or decreased as necessary) to achieve that
number.
filehandle
This is a somewhat unusual file in that what is read from it
handle for that path as exported to the given client. The file-
handles length will be at most the number of bytes given.
The filehandle will be represented in hex with a leading '\x'.
The directory /proc/net/rpc in the procfs filesystem contains a number
of files and directories. The files contain statistics that can be
display using the nfsstat program. The directories contain information
about various caches that the NFS server maintains to keep track of
access permissions that different clients have for different filesys-
tems. The caches are:
auth.domain
This cache maps the name of a client (or domain) to an internal
data structure. The only access that is possible is to flush
the cache.
auth.unix.ip
This cache contains a mapping from IP address to the name of the
authentication domain that the ipaddress should be treated as
part of.
nfsd.export
This cache contains a mapping from directory and domain to
export options.
nfsd.fh
This cache contains a mapping from domain and a filesystem iden-
tifier to a directory. The filesystem identifier is stored in
the filehandles and consists of a number indicating the type of
identifier and a number of hex bytes indicating the content of
the identifier.
Each directory representing a cache can hold from 1 to 3 files. They
are:
flush When a number of seconds since epoch (1 Jan 1970) is written to
this file, all entries in the cache that were last updated
before that file become invalidated and will be flushed out.
Writing 1 will flush everything. This is the only file that
will always be present.
content
This file, if present, contains a textual representation of ever
entry in the cache, one per line. If an entry is still in the
cache (because it is actively being used) but has expired or is
otherwise invalid, it will be presented as a comment (with a
leading hash character).
nfsd 127.0.0.1
appear in the auth.unix.ip/content file. The user-space program
might then write
nfsd 127.0.0.1 1057206953 localhost
to indicate that 127.0.0.1 should map to localhost, atleast for
now.
if the program uses select(2) or poll(2) to discover if it can
read from the channel then it will never see and end-of-file but
when all requests have been answered, it will block until
another request appears.
In the /proc filesystem there are 4 files that can be used to enabled
extra tracing of nfsd and related code. They are:
/proc/sys/sunrpc/nfs_debug
/proc/sys/sunrpc/nfsd_debug
/proc/sys/sunrpc/nlm_debug
/proc/sys/sunrpc/rpc_debug
They control tracing for the NFS client, the NFS server, the Network
Lock Manager (lockd) and the underlying RPC layer respectively. Deci-
mal numbers can be read from or written to these files. Each number
represents a bit-pattern where bits that are set cause certain classes
of tracing to be enabled. Consult the kernel header files to find out
what number correspond to what tracing.
SEE ALSO
rpc.nfsd(8), exports(5), nfsstat(8), mountd(8) exportfs(8).
AUTHOR
NeilBrown
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