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Date:      Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:31:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        bwithrow@BayNetworks.com (Robert Withrow)
Subject:   Re: 2.1.5 Bug: Manual refers to manual refers to manual refers to...
Message-ID:  <199608091831.UAA04086@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199608091215.IAA10249@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> from Robert Withrow at "Aug 9, 96 08:15:33 am"

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As Robert Withrow wrote:

> Can someone tell me where to *really* find the nfs mount options?

In both man pages.  The generic options (ro, rw, nosuid etc.) are
explained in mount(8), while the NFS mount options are explained in
mount_nfs(8):

     The options are:

     -3      Use the NFS Version 3 protocol (Version 2 is the default).
     -D      Used with NQNFS to set the ``dead server threshold'' to the spec-
     -I      Set the readdir read size to the specified value. The value
     -K      Pass Kerberos authenticators to the server for client-to-server
     -L      Used with NQNFS to set the lease term to the specified number of
     -P      Use a reserved socket port number.  This is useful for mounting
     -R      Set the retry count for doing the mount to the specified value.
     -T      Use TCP transport instead of UDP.  This is recommended for
     -U      Force the mount protocol to use UDP transport, even for TCP NFS
     -a      Set the read-ahead count to the specified value.  This may be in
     -b      If an initial attempt to contact the server fails, fork off a
     -c      For UDP mount points, do not do a connect(2).  This must be used
     -d      Turn off the dynamic retransmit timeout estimator.  This may be
     -g      Set the maximum size of the group list for the credentials to the
     -i      Make the mount interruptible, which implies that file system
     -l      Used with NQNFS and NFSV3 to specify that the ReaddirPlus RPC
     -m      Set the Kerberos realm to the string argument.  Used with the -K
     -q      Use the leasing extensions to the NFS Version 3 protocol to main-
     -r      Set the read data size to the specified value.  It should normal-
     -s      A soft mount, which implies that file system calls will fail af-
     -t      Set the initial retransmit timeout to the specified value.  May
     -w      Set the write data size to the specified value.  Ditto the com-
     -x      Set the retransmit timeout count for soft mounts to the specified


That is, you can:

	mount -t nfs -o -r=1024,-w=1024,-i,-b machine:/resource /mountpoint
	                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	                These are the options as mentioned above.

You can also say

	mount -t nfs -o intr,bg machine:/resource /mountpoint

Both of these options are not explained, we've still got an open PR
for it (735, responsible: wollman ;), but these options are considered
legacy that will not be explained.  (At least, that's the net result
from the discussion as you can read in GNATS.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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