Section 5 · File formats
nfsrahead.5
Package: nfs-utils
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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
CONFIGURATION
EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION
SEE ALSO
BUGS
AUTHOR
NAME
nfsrahead − Configure the readahead for NFS mounts
SYNOPSIS
nfsrahead [-F] [-d] <device>
DESCRIPTION
nfsrahead is a tool intended to be used with udev to set the read_ahead_kb parameter of NFS mounts, according to the configuration file (see CONFIGURATION). device is the device number for the NFS backing device as provided by the kernel.
OPTIONS
| -F | Send messages to stderr instead of syslog | |||
| -d | Increase the debugging level. |
CONFIGURATION
nfsrahead is configured in /etc/nfs.conf, in the section titled nfsrahead. It accepts the following configurations. **
nfs=<value>**
The readahead value applied to NFSv3 mounts.
nfs4=<value>
The readahead value applied to NFSv4 mounts.
default=<value>
The default configuration when none of the configurations above is set.
EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION
[nfsrahead]
nfs=15000 # readahead of 15000 for NFSv3 mounts
nfs4=16000 # readahead of 16000 for NFSv4 mounts
default=128 # default is 128
SEE ALSO
mount.nfs(8), nfs(5), nfs.conf(5), udev(7), bcc-readahead(8)
BUGS
No known bugs.
AUTHOR
Thiago Rafael Becker <trbecker@gmail.com>