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author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> | 2012-08-15 17:43:30 -0400 |
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committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> | 2012-08-21 17:42:03 -0400 |
commit | 8a4c6e19cfed5e650045312affed7e6056383278 (patch) | |
tree | 339a910e1a4f18911ad6173bd2c304e8a0e699f9 /Documentation/filesystems | |
parent | 65b2e6656bda2ad983727fcc725ac66b6d5035a7 (diff) | |
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nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd configuration
These are only needed by nfs-utils. But I needed to remind myself how
they worked recently and thought this might be helpful. It's short and
incomplete for now as I was only interested in startup, shutdown, and
configuration of listening sockets.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..56a96fb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Administrative interfaces for nfsd +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Note that normally these interfaces are used only by the utilities in +nfs-utils. + +nfsd is controlled mainly by pseudofiles under the "nfsd" filesystem, +which is normally mounted at /proc/fs/nfsd/. + +The server is always started by the first write of a nonzero value to +nfsd/threads. + +Before doing that, NFSD can be told which sockets to listen on by +writing to nfsd/portlist; that write may be: + + - an ascii-encoded file descriptor, which should refer to a + bound (and listening, for tcp) socket, or + - "transportname port", where transportname is currently either + "udp", "tcp", or "rdma". + +If nfsd is started without doing any of these, then it will create one +udp and one tcp listener at port 2049 (see nfsd_init_socks). + +On startup, nfsd and lockd grace periods start. + +nfsd is shut down by a write of 0 to nfsd/threads. All locks and state +are thrown away at that point. + +Between startup and shutdown, the number of threads may be adjusted up +or down by additional writes to nfsd/threads or by writes to +nfsd/pool_threads. + +For more detail about files under nfsd/ and what they control, see +fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c; most of them have detailed comments. + +Implementation notes +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Note that the rpc server requires the caller to serialize addition and +removal of listening sockets, and startup and shutdown of the server. +For nfsd this is done using nfsd_mutex. |