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| author | Daniel W. S. Almeida | 2020-01-10 20:24:27 -0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet | 2020-01-16 12:43:05 -0700 |
| commit | 0f3456ba9fb61584a891fb5264cf09e4d5fe0741 (patch) | |
| tree | 0502d5f0ddeedac09c3c3d955109ed2b2130f4ce /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | f8b8d030597a3b0a20e9cc2e958f82164690fbdb (diff) | |
Documentation: convert nfsd-admin-interfaces to ReST
Convert nfsd-admin-interfaces to ReST and move it into admin-guide.
Content remains mostly untouched.
Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d471305e9c96dec38f18d2ff816fca2269a88e29.1578697871.git.dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt | 41 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 56a96fb08a73..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -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. |