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Re: NFS as a module / kerneld question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Sep 10 14:46:04 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: dcflood@u.washington.edu (David Flood)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 17:28:47 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@cymru.net, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-normal@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960910082013.16389B-100000@saul5.u.washington.edu> from "David Flood" at Sep 10, 96 08:31:30 am
> processes are needed, how come they just go to sleep and never wake up? And
They do wake.
> forking one process since it gets loaded due to a mount command and that
> one nfsiod is necessary to handle that mount. But what about the other 3?
> And when every nfs mount is unmounted, the original 4 don't terminate. They
> just hang around. As a result the use count of nfs.o is always some number
> that is equal or greater than 4.
Yep. They provide asynchronous handlers for NFS requests to do things like
readahead.
Alan
