Looks like mountproto= was never documented in nfs(5). Add a paragraph that describes it in the "nfs mount options" section. --- utils/mount/nfs.man | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man index 2c0b687..0fc5079 100644 --- a/utils/mount/nfs.man +++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man @@ -489,6 +489,25 @@ or the server's mountd service is not available on the advertised port. This option can be used when mounting an NFS server through a firewall that blocks the rpcbind protocol. .TP 1.5i +.BI mountproto= netid +The transport protocol used by the NFS client +to transmit requests to the NFS server's mountd service when performing +this mount request, and when later unmounting this mount point. +.I netid +can be either +.B udp +or +.BR tcp . +.IP +This option can be used when mounting an NFS server +through a firewall that blocks a particular transport protocol. +When used in combination with the +.B proto +option, different transports for mountd requests and NFS requests +can be specified. +If the server's mountd service is not available via the specified +transport, the mount request fails. +.TP 1.5i .BI mounthost= name The hostname of the host running mountd. If this option is not specified, the -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html