MOUNTD(8) | System Manager's Manual | MOUNTD(8) |
mountd
— service
remote NFS mount requests
Obsolete. See nfsd(8).
The mountd
daemon was formerly the server
for NFS mount requests from NFS clients. This functionality has been moved
into the NFS server daemon nfsd(8).
Please refer to nfsd(8) for NFS server documenation.
The following is a list of former mountd
options that are now available as nfsd(8)
options:
mountd option | nfsd option | Description |
-n |
-N |
allow non-root mounts |
-r |
-R |
allow regular file mounts |
exportsfile | -F
exportsfile |
alternate exports file |
However, such configuration options are normally specified via nfs.conf(5).
When the NFS server is started, it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel using the nfssvc(2) system call. After changing the list of exports (either directly or indirectly via a change in netgroup membership), the administrator should send a hangup signal to the nfsd daemon to get it to reload the export information:
kill -s HUP `cat
/var/run/nfsd.pid`
For backwards compatibility, the following should also work:
kill -s HUP `cat
/var/run/mountd.pid`
Any errors encountered while processing the export entries will be logged via syslog(3).
nfsd(8), exports(5), nfs.conf(5), nfsstat(1), portmap(8), showmount(8)
The mountd
utility first appeared in
4.4BSD. It's functionality was merged into
nfsd(8) in Darwin 9.
November 10, 2006 | macOS 14.6 |