document sync option:

  Document the 'sync' option in the exports(5) man page -- ATM
  only the 'async' option is documented, which is not very
  symmetric. :-)  "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@debian.org>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ac8bc63d1a918be8caa64c3229c6f0b4dc4df26a..ebe9ae7dd961b592d5f5a371703a4b9434f8399b 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -11,8 +11,12 @@
                "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@debian.org>
        - Only treat '#' as starting a comment when at the start of a
          token, otherwise '#' in filenames cannot be read.
-               NeilBrown       
-       
+               NeilBrown
+       - document sync option:
+         Document the 'sync' option in the exports(5) man page -- ATM
+         only the 'async' option is documented, which is not very
+         symmetric. :-)  "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@debian.org>
+
 2006-04-12 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
        Remove **/Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, configure, and
         support/include/config.h.in from source control

diff --git a/utils/exportfs/exports.man b/utils/exportfs/exports.man
index f420a20d60c48a8a54f2284e460c6c22b35f9604..a37e75f5d6a7a1e4c7a67fde249e7a7e760fb47c 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/exportfs/exports.man
+++ b/utils/exportfs/exports.man
@@ -109,6 +109,13 @@ Using this option usually improves performance, but at the cost that
 an unclean server restart (i.e. a crash) can cause data to be lost or
 corrupted.
 
+.TP
+.IR sync
+Reply to requests only after the changes have been committed to stable
+storage (see
+.IR async
+above).
+
 In releases of nfs-utils upto and including 1.0.0, this option was the
 default.  In this and future releases,
 .I sync