X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=utils%2Fmountd%2Fmountd.man;h=f8646d477670aaf028b01eda63c667e0b631bbb8;hb=582e963f4aa62c9c6957c3868d487a82385cc5a1;hp=a815a52d66cdf6c6539054dc96f33fe76032ecb3;hpb=1408e610ac2db753543a546c4312b2eb6799f044;p=nfs-utils.git diff --git a/utils/mountd/mountd.man b/utils/mountd/mountd.man index a815a52..f8646d4 100644 --- a/utils/mountd/mountd.man +++ b/utils/mountd/mountd.man @@ -121,9 +121,16 @@ 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 +If this option is not specified the default of .BR /var/lib/nfs -is used. (This is a Debian-specific extension.) +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 @@ -136,6 +143,21 @@ can support both NFS version 2 and the newer version 3. 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 This