X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=utils%2Fmount%2Fnfs.man;h=810bfc075cb2629beedb8738f60e3f5fdf771f1e;hb=e18d56286b81d61c58ea1d4cb2539530695226e3;hp=dfb0bc956de66af5219ea378251e3419cf29eb72;hpb=2850a26b17b37126f70283400c01f7ffa651b860;p=nfs-utils.git diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man index dfb0bc9..810bfc0 100644 --- a/utils/mount/nfs.man +++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man @@ -112,12 +112,16 @@ option may mitigate some of the risks of using the option. .TP 1.5i .BI timeo= n -The time (in tenths of a second) the NFS client waits for a -response before it retries an NFS request. If this -option is not specified, requests are retried every -60 seconds for NFS over TCP. -The NFS client does not perform any kind of timeout backoff -for NFS over TCP. +The time in deciseconds (tenths of a second) the NFS client waits for a +response before it retries an NFS request. +.IP +For NFS over TCP the default +.B timeo +value is 600 (60 seconds). +The NFS client performs linear backoff: After each retransmission the +timeout is increased by +.BR timeo +up to the maximum of 600 seconds. .IP However, for NFS over UDP, the client uses an adaptive algorithm to estimate an appropriate timeout value for frequently used @@ -371,11 +375,8 @@ Valid security flavors are .BR krb5p , .BR lkey , .BR lkeyi , -.BR lkeyp , -.BR spkm , -.BR spkmi , and -.BR spkmp . +.BR lkeyp , Refer to the SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS section for details. .TP 1.5i .BR sharecache " / " nosharecache @@ -1412,7 +1413,7 @@ security flavor encrypts every RPC request to prevent data exposure during network transit; however, expect some performance impact when using integrity checking or encryption. -Similar support for other forms of cryptographic security (such as lipkey and SPKM3) +Similar support for other forms of cryptographic security (such as lipkey) is also available. .P The NFS version 4 protocol allows @@ -1557,10 +1558,10 @@ To ensure that the saved mount options are not erased during a remount, specify either the local mount directory, or the server hostname and export pathname, but not both, during a remount. For example, .P -.NF -.TA 2.5i +.nf +.ta 8n mount -o remount,ro /mnt -.FI +.fi .P merges the mount option .B ro