HP-UX Reference (11i v2 03/08) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

pfs_mountd(1M) pfs_mountd(1M)

NAME

pfs_mountd, pfs_mountd.rpc - PFS mount request server

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/pfs_mountd

DESCRIPTION

This program is available with the Portable File System Package (PFS).

pfs_mountd is an RPC server

that answers ﬁle system mount requests. In the case of remote mount requests, it reads the ﬁle

/etc/pfs_xtab

, described in pfs_exports (5), to determine which ﬁle systems are available for mount-

ing by which machines.

It is recommended that the

pfs_mountd daemon be invoked by rc(1M). It must be invoked in the back-

ground.

The

pfs mount daemon is composed of two programs:

pfs_mountd and pfs_mountd.rpc

. The

pfs_mountd.rpc

program should not be run directly. It is invoked by the

pfs_mountd program.

The mount daemon assigns servers to mounted ﬁle systems in a round-robin fashion. For example, if

there are four pfs daemons, and four

pfs_mount

’s are performed, each daemon will be serving a

different mount.

Options

-v Verbose. Show version number, etc.

AUTHOR

pfs_mountd was developed by Young Minds, Inc.

FILES

/etc/pfs_xtab