How do I restart the biod

[K. Munk Kristensen]

What is the correct way of restarting the biod (in case it disappear) on my HP-UX B.11.11?

I guess I can start it from SAM (Networking and Communication / Network Services - select NFS server and Clint - action: restart) - but can this be done without 'side effects' ie. affecting ongoing reads/writes to nfs-mounts?

From what I have read elsewhere the biod is not absolutely necessary - it 'just' improves performance. Any comments on that?

Is biod needed on both server and client?

Thanks!

[Ashwani Kashyap · Accepted solution]

biod is neede on the nfs client side .
YOu don't need biod to mount nfs directories on the client side but is highly recommended as it improves performance and soves file locking problems .

TO restart it , simply restart the client services .

#/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start .

[eran maor]

Hi

you can use this :

#/sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop
#/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start

remember that this will stop all your process so you can try to start the biod with the start option first to see if it restarting the process

[Jeff_Traigle]

Per biod man page, it is the NFS server daemon. If you don't export anything form the server, you don't need it running.

If NFS_SERVER is set to 1 in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf, you can easily start biod (and other necessary NFS server processes) by running /sbin/init.d/nfs.server start.

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

Edit /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf and set to 1 value all services that you need activate.

To activate NFS Client, execute:
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.client start

To activate NFS Server, execute:
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.server start

Rgds.

[Jeff_Traigle]

Oops... biod is the client side... I'm still not awake. So if your system isn't an NFS client, you don't need it. As long as NFS_CLIENT is set to 1 in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf, then what the others said to start it is correct.