On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:26:32PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Lars Engblom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have been checking, the bg option is not mention in fstab(5), mount(8) > > and mount_nfs(8). Please update the manual pages together with the faq. > > At this moment, there is no way anyone could figure it out by themselves. > > -b in mount_nfs(8) is hard to miss. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected] >
But I think the mapping from command line options to fstab(5)/-o option names should be documented. At least I can't find such verbiage. Probably not going to make 5.4, but perhaps something like the diff below. .... Ken Index: mount_nfs.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/mount_nfs/mount_nfs.8,v retrieving revision 1.39 diff -u -p -r1.39 mount_nfs.8 --- mount_nfs.8 6 Jun 2009 20:58:50 -0000 1.39 +++ mount_nfs.8 26 Jul 2013 14:21:09 -0000 @@ -163,9 +163,39 @@ Cache file attributes for at least .Ar num seconds. The default is 5 seconds. +.It Cm bg +Equivalent to +.Fl b . +.It Cm conn +Equivalent to +.Fl c . +.It Cm dumbtimer +Equivalent to +.Fl d . +.It Cm intr +Equivalent to +.Fl i . +.It Cm mntupd +Equivalent to +.Fl U . +.It Cm nfs2 +Equivalent to +.Fl 2 . +.It Cm nfsv3 +Equivalent to +.Fl 3 . .It Cm port Ns = Ns Ar portnumber Use the specified port number for NFS requests. The default is to query the portmapper for the NFS port. +.It Cm rdirplus +Equivalent to +.Fl l . +.It Cm soft +Equivalent to +.Fl s . +.It Cm tcp +Equivalent to +.Fl T . .El .It Fl R Ar retrycnt Set the retry count for doing the mount to the specified value.
