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:

allow non-root mounts
allow regular file mounts
exportsfile 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).

/etc/exports
the list of exported filesystems
/var/run/mountd.pid
the pid of the currently running mountd
/var/run/mountdtab
the current list of outstanding mounts served
/var/run/mountdexptab
information about exported file systems and directories (UUIDs, handles, ...)

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 15.0