Imported Debian patch 1.0.7-8

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

diff --git a/utils/mountd/mountd.man b/utils/mountd/mountd.man
index 9dff681cd6511cb0d9ee6ba5c34bd6b413ef7aa6..a815a52d66cdf6c6539054dc96f33fe76032ecb3 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/mountd/mountd.man
+++ b/utils/mountd/mountd.man
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 .\" mountd(8)
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (C) 1999 Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>
-.TH rpc.mountd 8 "25 Aug 2000"
+.\" Modified by Paul Clements, 2004.
+.TH rpc.mountd 8 "31 Aug 2004"
 .SH NAME
 rpc.mountd \- NFS mount daemon
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -42,9 +43,8 @@ syntax.
 For every mount request received from an NFS client,
 .B rpc.mountd
 adds an entry to the
-.B /var/state/nfs/rmtab
+.B /var/lib/nfs/rmtab
 file. When receiving an unmount request, that entry is removed.
-user level part of the NFS service.
 .P
 However, this file is mostly ornamental. One, the client can continue
 to use the file handle even after calling
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ a stale entry will remain in
 .BR rmtab .
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
-.B \-d " or " \-\-debug
-Turn on debugging.
+.B \-d kind " or " \-\-debug kind
+Turn on debugging. Valid kinds are: all, auth, call, general and parse.
 .TP
 .B \-F " or " \-\-foreground
 Run in foreground (do not daemonize)
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ By default, export information is read from
 .B \-h " or " \-\-help
 Display usage message.
 .TP
+.B \-o num " or " \-\-descriptors num
+Set the limit of the number of open file descriptors to num. The
+default is to leave the limit unchanged.
+.TP
 .B \-N " or " \-\-no-nfs-version
 This option can be used to request that
 .B rpc.mountd
@@ -83,15 +87,44 @@ NFS kernel module was compiled without support for NFSv3,
 must be invoked with the option
 .B "\-\-no-nfs-version 3" .
 .TP
+.B \-n " or " \-\-no-tcp
+Don't advertise TCP for mount.
+.TP
 .B \-P
 Ignored (compatibility with unfsd??).
 .TP
-.B \-p " or " \-\-port
+.B \-p " or " \-\-port num
 Force
 .B rpc.mountd
-to bind to the specified port, instead of using the random port
+to bind to the specified port num, instead of using the random port
 number assigned by the portmapper.
 .TP
+.B \-H " or " \-\-ha-callout prog
+Specify a high availability callout program, which will receive callouts
+for all client mount and unmount requests. This allows 
+.B rpc.mountd
+to be used in a High Availability NFS (HA-NFS) environment. This callout is not
+needed (and should not be used) with 2.6 and later kernels (instead,
+mount the nfsd filesystem on
+.B /proc/fs/nfsd
+).
+The program will be called with 4 arguments.
+The first will be
+.B mount
+or
+.B unmount
+depending on the reason for the callout.
+The second will be the name of the client performing the mount.
+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
+.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. (This is a Debian-specific extension.)
+.TP
 .B \-V " or " \-\-nfs-version
 This option can be used to request that
 .B rpc.mountd
@@ -118,13 +151,10 @@ mountd: .bar.com
 
 You have to use the daemon name 
 .B mountd
-for the daemon name (even if the binary has a different name). For the
-client names you can only use the keyword ALL or IP addresses (NOT
-host or domain names).
+for the daemon name (even if the binary has a different name).
 
 For further information please have a look at the
-.BR tcpd (8),
-.BR hosts_allow (5)
+.BR tcpd (8)
 and
 .BR hosts_access (5)
 manual pages.
@@ -136,6 +166,6 @@ manual pages.
 .BR rpc.rquotad (8).
 .SH FILES
 .BR /etc/exports ,
-.BR /var/state/nfs/xtab .
+.BR /var/lib/nfs/xtab .
 .SH AUTHOR
 Olaf Kirch, H. J. Lu, G. Allan Morris III, and a host of others.