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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: nfs problem
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 12:26:47 -0700 (MST)
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> > > I find it extremely annoying that named options line "resvport"
> > > aren't documented for mount or mount_nfs.  *grumble*
> > 
> > That's because `resvport' is compatibility cruft.  The proper name is
> > `-P'.
> 
> Huh?  -P is meant to represent a 'better' thing than a meaningful keyword?
> That's crazy 8(

The -P is a getopt(3) parseable command line option for mount_nfs.

And yes, making the fstab options match the command line options for
the mount for the FS type specified in the fstab *is* a better thing.

You might successfully argue for "-o resvport,nosuid" or whatever as
a syntax change for "mount_nfs"...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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