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mountd is a target utility.
The mountd daemon is the server for NFS mount requests from other client machines. It listens for service requests at the port indicated in the NFS server specification; see "Network File System Protocol Specification" RFC1094, Appendix A and NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification, Appendix I.
The following options and operands are available:
Allow the administrator to force clients to use only the version 2 NFS protocol to mount filesystems from this server.
Allows mountd to be set in trace mode, displaying messages for each request.
Cause all succeeded mountd requests to be logged.
Allow non-root mount requests to be served. This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's, that require it. It will automatically clear the vfs.nfs.nfs_privport sysctl flag, which controls if the microl will accept NFS requests from reserved ports only.
Allow mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served. Although this seems to violate the mount protocol specification, some diskless workstations do mount requests for their swapfiles and expect them to be regular files. Since a regular file cannot be specified in /etc/exports, the entire file system in which the swapfiles resides will have to be exported with the -alldirs flag.
Specify an alternate location for the exports file.
The export file name alternate location can also be specified explicitly when mountd is started. This argument must be in the last position of the argument list. By default, the /etc/exports file is analyzed.
When mountd is started, it loads the export host addresses and options into the microkernel using the mount(2POSIX) system call. After changing the exports file, a hangup signal should be sent to the mountd daemon so that it reloads the export information. All error messages are displayed to the screen, and not in a log file.
The /etc/exports file contains the list of exported file systems.
the list of exported filesystems
the pid of the currently running mountd
the current list of remote mounted filesystems
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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Interface Stability | Evolving |
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