umount should succeed even if we cannot contact the server.

[nfs-utils.git] / utils / mountd / mountd.man

diff --git a/utils/mountd/mountd.man b/utils/mountd/mountd.man
index 64e508a26ea2768ad39ca98e4384b9c36162105f..f8646d477670aaf028b01eda63c667e0b631bbb8 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/mountd/mountd.man
+++ b/utils/mountd/mountd.man
@@ -119,6 +119,19 @@ The third will be the path that the client is mounting.
 The last is the number of concurrent mounts that we believe the client
 has of that path.
 .TP
 The last is the number of concurrent mounts that we believe the client
 has of that path.
 .TP

+.BI "\-P," "" " \-\-state\-directory\-path "  directory
+specify a directory in which to place statd state information.
+If this option is not specified the default of
+.BR /var/lib/nfs
+is used.
+.TP
+.BR "\-t N" " or " "\-\-num\-threads=N"
+This option specifies the number of worker threads that rpc.mountd
+spawns.  The default is 1 thread, which is probably enough.  More
+threads are usually only needed for NFS servers which need to handle
+mount storms of hundreds of NFS mounts in a few seconds, or when
+your DNS server is slow or unreliable.
+.TP

 .B \-V " or " \-\-nfs-version
 This option can be used to request that
 .B rpc.mountd
 .B \-V " or " \-\-nfs-version
 This option can be used to request that
 .B rpc.mountd


@@ -130,6 +143,21 @@ can support both NFS version 2 and the newer version 3.
 Print the version of
 .B rpc.mountd
 and exit.
 Print the version of
 .B rpc.mountd
 and exit.

+.TP
+.B \-g " or " \-\-manage-gids
+Accept requests from the kernel to map user id numbers into  lists of
+group id numbers for use in access control.  An NFS request will
+normally (except when using Kerberos or other cryptographic
+authentication) contains a user-id and a list of group-ids.  Due to a
+limitation in the NFS protocol, at most 16 groups ids can be listed.
+If you use the
+.B \-g
+flag, then the list of group ids received from the client will be
+replaced by a list of group ids determined by an appropriate lookup on
+the server. Note that the 'primary' group id is not affected so a
+.I newgroup
+command on the client will still be effective.  This function requires
+a Linux Kernel with version at least 2.6.21.

 
 .SH TCP_WRAPPERS SUPPORT
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 .SH TCP_WRAPPERS SUPPORT
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