On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 11:37:03 -0700 (PDT) 
 Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:

 > The main reason we run the nfs daemons this way is so that the kernel has
 > a context which can sleep while a request is processed.

Well, that's more applicable to nfsiod than for nfsd....

nfsd also interacts w/ the portmapper, and deals w/ some basic authentication
stuff (e.g. NFS Kerberos support).

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>