On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 05:09:15PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Kenneth R Westerback:
> 
> > > -b in mount_nfs(8) is hard to miss.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> You can use -b etc in fstab(5).
> 
> We need to make up our mind which variant is preferred and which
> retained for compatibility.  Currently I use "bg" on FreeBSD and
> "-b" on OpenBSD, because that's what the respective documentation
> suggests, although both systems support either syntax.
> 
> -- 
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]
> 

If we accept it (for compatibility or not) I think we should document it.

If we don't want to document it we should not accept it. :-)

.... Ken

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