.SH NAME
nfsd \- special filesystem for controlling Linux NFS server
.SH SYNPOSIS
-.B "mount -t nfsd nfsd /proc/fs/nfs"
+.B "mount -t nfsd nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd"
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B nfsd
-filessytem is a special filesystem which provides access to the Linux
+filesystem is a special filesystem which provides access to the Linux
NFS server. The filesystem consists of a single directory which
contains a number of files. These files are actually gateways into
the NFS server. Writing to them can affect the server. Reading from
As well as this filesystem, there are a collection of files in the
.B procfs
filesystem (normally mounted at
-.BE /proc )
+.BR /proc )
which are used to control the NFS server.
This manual page describes all of these files.
.P
.I mountd
programs (part of the nfs-utils package) expect to find this
filesystem mounted at
+.B /proc/fs/nfsd
+or
.BR /proc/fs/nfs .
If it is not mounted, they will fall-back on 2.4 style functionality.
This involves accessing the NFS server via a systemcall. This
fields, and octal quoting of special characters.
On writing this, the program will be able to read back a filehandle
-for that path as exported to the given client. The filehandles length
+for that path as exported to the given client. The filehandle's length
will be at most the number of bytes given.
The filehandle will be represented in hex with a leading '\ex'.
.ti +5
nfsd 127.0.0.1 1057206953 localhost
.br
-to indicate that 127.0.0.1 should map to localhost, atleast for now.
+to indicate that 127.0.0.1 should map to localhost, at least for now.
If the program uses select(2) or poll(2) to discover if it can read
from the