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 <[email protected]>

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