make "exportfs -au" do no DNS lookup

[nfs-utils.git] / utils / exportfs / exports.man

diff --git a/utils/exportfs/exports.man b/utils/exportfs/exports.man
index 767db40216938477e749a7c4bd59d8a05808b970..4b31ccf9c03e1316f3483a8d7cf3810a29ee7f91 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/exportfs/exports.man
+++ b/utils/exportfs/exports.man
@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ contains an export point and a list of machine or netgroup names allowed
 to mount the file system at that point.  An optional parenthesized list
 of export parameters may follow each machine name.  Blank lines are
 ignored, and a # introduces a comment to the end of the line. Entries may
-be continued across newlines using a backslash.
+be continued across newlines using a backslash. If export name contains spaces
+it should be quoted using double-quotes. You can also specify spaces
+or any other unusual characters in the export path name using a
+backslash followed by the character code as 3 octal digits.
 .PP
 .SS Machine Name Formats
 NFS clients may be specified in a number of ways:
@@ -46,7 +49,11 @@ above pattern does not include hosts such as \fIa.b.cs.foo.edu\fR.
 You can also export directories to all hosts on an IP (sub-) network
 simultaneously. This is done by specifying an IP address and netmask pair
 as
-.IR address/netmask .
+.IR address/netmask
+where the netmask can be specified in dotted-decimal format, or as a
+contiguous mask length (for example, either `/255.255.252.0' or `/22' appended
+to the network base address result in identical subnetworks with 10 bits of
+host).
 .TP
 '''.B =public
 '''This is a special ``hostname'' that identifies the given directory name