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| author | Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> | 2007-05-07 07:53:32 -0400 |
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| committer | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2007-05-08 14:38:14 +1000 |
| commit | a5f020dda1a93657eae1b297a67d054269a3ef0c (patch) | |
| tree | 92e4f23d5a6b0b29d754bf8b0846467c67900f86 /utils/mountd | |
| parent | de6497fce274e35a0c7aeac14dbfff476b012e37 (diff) | |
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update manpages for showmount and mountd
This patch updates the manpages for showmount and mountd. It adds a
description of the new mountd -r option, and a caveat about the unreliability
of showmount -a.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'utils/mountd')
| -rw-r--r-- | utils/mountd/mountd.man | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/utils/mountd/mountd.man b/utils/mountd/mountd.man index f8646d4..4276663 100644 --- a/utils/mountd/mountd.man +++ b/utils/mountd/mountd.man @@ -125,6 +125,13 @@ If this option is not specified the default of .BR /var/lib/nfs is used. .TP +.BI "\-r," "" " \-\-reverse\-lookup" +mountd tracks IP addresses in the rmtab, and when a DUMP request is made (by +someone running showmount -a, for instance), it returns IP addresses instead +of hostnames by default. This option causes mountd to do a reverse +lookup on each IP address and return that hostname instead. Enabling this can +have a substantial negative effect on performance in some situations. +.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 |