commit 92e623c74908ffcc76da72e7927ce4e237062c76 Author: Steve Dickson Date: Sun Aug 2 12:41:03 2009 -0400 The new nfsmount.conf(5) man page and the update to the nfs(5) man page Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson diff --git a/utils/mount/Makefile.am b/utils/mount/Makefile.am index a1b56ca..5c1e5ad 100644 --- a/utils/mount/Makefile.am +++ b/utils/mount/Makefile.am @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ mount_nfs_SOURCES = mount.c error.c network.c fstab.c token.c \ if MOUNT_CONFIG mount_nfs_SOURCES += configfile.c +man5_MANS += nfsmount.conf.man endif mount_nfs_LDADD = ../../support/nfs/libnfs.a \ diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man index 13de524..251b16f 100644 --- a/utils/mount/nfs.man +++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man @@ -752,6 +752,44 @@ In the presence of multiple client network interfaces, special routing policies, or atypical network topologies, the exact address to use for callbacks may be nontrivial to determine. +.SH MOUNT CONFIGURATION FILE +All of the mount options described in the previous section can also be configured in +the +.I /etc/nfsmount.conf +file. This configuration file is made up of three +different sections: Global, Server and MountPoint. See +.BR nfsmount.conf(5) +for details. +.PP +The mount command parses section in a particular order, and will not use +options that were set in previous sections. The order of precedence is as follows: + +.B Command line option +.RS +options set on the command line will always be used. +.RE +.B Mount Point options +.RS +options set in the +.B [] +section will +be used only if they are not specified on the command line. +.RE +.B Server options +.RS +options set in the +.B [] +section will be used +if they are not specified on the command line or the +mount point section. +.RE +.B Global options +.RS +options set in the +.B [NFSMount_Global_Options] +will be used if they are not specified on the command line, mount point +section, or the server section. +.RE .SH EXAMPLES To mount an export using NFS version 2, use the diff --git a/utils/mount/nfsmount.conf.man b/utils/mount/nfsmount.conf.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a3bb68 --- /dev/null +++ b/utils/mount/nfsmount.conf.man @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +.\"@(#)nfsmount.conf.5" +.TH NFSMOUNT.CONF 5 "9 Mar 2008" +.SH NAME +nfsmount.conf - Configuration file for NFS mounts +.SH SYNOPSIS +Configuration file for NFS mounts that allows options +to be set globally, per server or per mount point. +.SH DESCRIPTION +The configuration file is made up of multiple sections +followed by variables associated with that section. +A section is defined by a string enclosed by +.BR [ +and +.BR ] +branches; for example, +.BR [nfsserver.foo.com] . +Variables are assignment statements that assign values +to particular variables using the +.BR = +operator, as in +.BR Proto=Tcp . +Sections are broken up into three basic categories: +Global options, Server options and Mount Point options. +.HP +.BR [NFSMount_Global_Options] +- This statically named section +defines all of the global mount options that can be +applied to every NFS mount. +.HP +.BR [] +- This section defines all the mount options that should +be used on mounts to a particular NFS server. The +.BR +needs to be an exact match of the server +name used in the +.B mount +command. +.HP +.BR [] +- This section defines all the mount options that +should be used on a particular mount point. +The +.BR +string need to be an exact match of the +path used in the +.BR mount +command. +.SH EXAMPLES +.PP +These are some example lines of how sections and variables +are defined in the configuration file. +.PP +.BR [NFSMount_Global_Options] +.br +.BR Proto=Tcp +.RS +.HP +The TCP protocol will be used on every NFS mount. +.HP +.RE +.BR [nfsserver.foo.com] +.br +.BR rsize=32k +.br +.BR wsize=32k +.HP +.RS +A 33k (32768 bytes) block size will be used as the read and write +size on all mounts to the 'nfsserver.foo.com' server. +.HP +.RE +.BR [/export/home] +.br +.BR Background=True +.RS +.HP +All mounts to the '/export/home' export will be performed in +the background (i.e. done asynchronously). +.HP +.SH FILES +.TP 10n +.I /etc/nfsmount.conf +Default NFS mount configuration file +.PD +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR nfs (5), +.BR mount (8),