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authorDaniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>2020-01-10 20:24:27 -0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-01-16 12:43:05 -0700
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Documentation: convert nfsd-admin-interfaces to ReST
Convert nfsd-admin-interfaces to ReST and move it into admin-guide. Content remains mostly untouched. Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d471305e9c96dec38f18d2ff816fca2269a88e29.1578697871.git.dwlsalmeida@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.rst (renamed from Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt)19
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.rst
index 56a96fb08a73..c05926f79054 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+==================================
Administrative interfaces for nfsd
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+==================================
Note that normally these interfaces are used only by the utilities in
nfs-utils.
@@ -13,18 +14,16 @@ nfsd/threads.
Before doing that, NFSD can be told which sockets to listen on by
writing to nfsd/portlist; that write may be:
- - an ascii-encoded file descriptor, which should refer to a
- bound (and listening, for tcp) socket, or
- - "transportname port", where transportname is currently either
- "udp", "tcp", or "rdma".
+ - an ascii-encoded file descriptor, which should refer to a
+ bound (and listening, for tcp) socket, or
+ - "transportname port", where transportname is currently either
+ "udp", "tcp", or "rdma".
If nfsd is started without doing any of these, then it will create one
udp and one tcp listener at port 2049 (see nfsd_init_socks).
-On startup, nfsd and lockd grace periods start.
-
-nfsd is shut down by a write of 0 to nfsd/threads. All locks and state
-are thrown away at that point.
+On startup, nfsd and lockd grace periods start. nfsd is shut down by a write of
+0 to nfsd/threads. All locks and state are thrown away at that point.
Between startup and shutdown, the number of threads may be adjusted up
or down by additional writes to nfsd/threads or by writes to
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ For more detail about files under nfsd/ and what they control, see
fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c; most of them have detailed comments.
Implementation notes
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+====================
Note that the rpc server requires the caller to serialize addition and
removal of listening sockets, and startup and shutdown of the server.