Fix the description of nfsversion mount option in the man nfs page

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

diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man
index 93bd642dc685f47dda84d5a0e72f0213d5f55a3a..38066354c6dc826032b269806fe703b61063731b 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/mount/nfs.man
+++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man
@@ -363,7 +363,11 @@ The number of minutes that the
 command retries an NFS mount operation
 in the foreground or background before giving up.
 If this option is not specified, the default value for foreground mounts
-is 2 minutes, and the default value for background mounts is 10000 minutes (80 minutes shy of one week).
+is 2 minutes, and the default value for background mounts is 10000 minutes
+(80 minutes shy of one week).
+If a value of zero is specified, the
+.BR mount (8)
+command exits immediately after the first failure.
 .TP 1.5i
 .BI sec= mode
 The RPCGSS security flavor to use for accessing files on this mount point.
@@ -619,14 +623,9 @@ in such cases.
 .TP 1.5i
 .BI nfsvers= n
 The NFS protocol version number used to contact the server's NFS service.
-The Linux client supports version 2 and version 3 of the NFS protocol
-when using the file system type
-.BR nfs .
-If the server does not support the requested version,
-the mount request fails.
-If this option is not specified, the client attempts to use version 3,
-but negotiates the NFS version with the server if version 3 support
-is not available.
+If the server does not support the requested version, the mount request fails.
+If this option is not specified, the client negociate a suitable version with
+the server, trying version 4 first, version 3 second, and version 2 last.
 .TP 1.5i
 .BI vers= n
 This option is an alternative to the