Troubleshooting and tuning NFS

Troubleshooting and tuning NFS

This topic describes problems that may occur on machines using the Network File System (NFS^®) services. It covers the following subjects:

strategies for tracking NFS problems
NFS-related error messages
NFS tunable parameters

Before trying to clear NFS problems, you need some understanding of the issues involved. The information in this topic contains enough technical details to give experienced network administrators a thorough picture of what is happening with their machines. If you do not yet have this level of expertise, note that it is not important to understand fully all the daemons, system calls, and files. However, you should be able to at least recognize their names and functions.

Before you read this topic, familiarize yourself with the following manual pages:

mount(1Mnfs)
share(1Mnfs)
mountd(1Mnfs)
nfsd(1Mnfs)
biod(1Mnfs)