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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/mountd/mountd.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/mountd/mountd.8 | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/mountd/mountd.8 b/usr.sbin/mountd/mountd.8 index 78f95b51a6a2..7168c1753397 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/mountd/mountd.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/mountd/mountd.8 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" From: @(#)mountd.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 -.\" $Id: mountd.8,v 1.2 1994/09/22 22:16:49 wollman Exp $ +.\" $Id: mountd.8,v 1.3 1995/02/22 21:42:48 ats Exp $ .\" .Dd September 22, 1994 .Dt MOUNTD 8 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ mount requests .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm /sbin/mountd -.Op Fl n +.Op Fl nr .Op Ar exportsfile .Sh DESCRIPTION .Xr Mountd @@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ listens for service requests at the port indicated in the .Tn NFS server specification; see .%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" , -RFC1094. +RFC1094, Appendix A and +.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" , +Appendix I. .Pp Options and operands available for .Nm mountd : @@ -65,6 +67,15 @@ The option allows non-root mount requests to be served. This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's, that require it. +.It Fl r +The +.Fl r +option allows mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served. +Although this seems to violate the mount protocol specification, some diskless +workstations do mount requests for their swapfiles and expect them to be +regular files. Since a regular file cannot be specified in /etc/exports, the +entire file system that the swapfiles reside in will have to be exported with +the ``-alldirs'' flag. .It Ar exportsfile The .Ar exportsfile |