Notes about systemd unit files for nfs-utils. The unit files provided here should be sufficient for systemd to manage all daemons and related services provides by nfs-utils. They do *not* include any unit files for separate services such as rpc.rquotad (in the 'quota' package) or rpcbind. There are 4 units that can be 'enabled' or 'disabled' by systemctl, or by a suitable 'preset' setting: nfs-server.service If enabled, nfs service is started together with dependencies such as mountd, statd, rpc.idmapd This is a "service" file rather than a "target" (which is the normal grouping construct) so that systemctl start nfs-server can work (if no type is given, ".service" is assumed). nfs-client.target If enabled, daemons needed for an nfs client are enabled. This does *not* include rpc.statd. The rpc-statd.service unit is started by /usr/sbin/start-statd which mount.nfs will run if statd is needed. nfs-blkmap.service If enabled, then blkmapd will be run when nfs-client.target is started. Another special unit is "nfs-utils.service". This doesn't really do anything, but exists so that other units may declare themselves as "PartOf" nfs-utils.service. The effect of this is that systemctl restart nfs-utils will restart all nfs-utils daemons as maybe be required during software update. It isn't possible to make systemctl try-restart nfs-server nfs-client.target do this as some daemon are included in both, and rpc.statd would not be restarted if nfs-server were not active (as nfs-client doesn't Want it - it is started by mount.nfs running start-statd). It is possible that we should have an nfs-statd.target which can selectively enable statd being stared by -server and sm-notify being started by -server or -client. That way it could be disabled completely on V4-only configurations. Currently statd is always started on the server and sm-notify is always run if server or client is enabled. Stopping nfs-server will also stop rpc.mountd, and rpc.svcgssd. It cannot stop rpc.statd or rpc.gssd as they may be in use by the client and systemd cannot specify is two-pronged reverse dependency. (i.e. stop this unit if none of these units are running) Distro specific configuration can be included in /etc/nfs.conf, or by providing drop-in files which replace the ExecStart line for a given service, and possibly add an EnvironmentFile line. For example, if systemd/system/nfs-mountd.service.d/local.conf contained [Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/nfs ExecStart= ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd $RPCMOUNTDOPTS then the setting of RPCMOUNTDOPTS in /etc/sysconfig/nfs would be passed to rpc.mountd. rpc.gssd and rpc.svcgssd are assumed to be needed if /etc/krb5.keytab is present. If a site needs this file present but does not want the gss daemons running, it should create /etc/systemd/system/rpc-gssd.service.d/01-disable.conf and /etc/systemd/system/rpc-svcgssd.service.d/01-disable.conf containing [Unit] ConditionNull=false