On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Talpey, Thomas <Thomas.Talpey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To be pedantic, identifiying this field as a "prot" may be just as > misleading. For example "rdma" (which isn't mentioned btw ;-) ) > can employ tcp - iWARP adapters do this. The Solaris mount_nfs man page puts it this way: proto=netid | rdma Language for rdma support is yet to be added to nfs(5). > I think instead that the proto= field simply names the "transport" > rather than "netid" or "prot". Also, I think "prot" is much too easily > mistaken for "port". Was looking for a short word to use in the option's synopsis instead of "netid" or "n". How about "name" instead of "prot" ? > So I suggest changing the example to "proto=transport", and deleting > the word "protocol" in the text, simply leaving "the transport used by > NFS to transmit..." I don't have any objection to that. Anyone else have an opinion? > At 12:16 PM 9/23/2008, Chuck Lever wrote: >>Mike Eisler noted that the use of the term "netid" in the descriptions >>of the "proto=" option is not appropriate, since Linux does not allow >>"udp6" or "tcp6". >> >>Remove the term "netid" from nfs(5). >> >>Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> >>--- >> >> utils/mount/nfs.man | 12 ++++++------ >> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) >> >>diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man >>index 0fc5079..b1037a8 100644 >>--- a/utils/mount/nfs.man >>+++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man >>@@ -411,10 +411,10 @@ for mounting the >> .B nfs >> file system type. >> .TP 1.5i >>-.BI proto= netid >>+.BI proto= prot >> The transport protocol used by the NFS client >> to transmit requests to the NFS server for this mount point. >>-.I netid >>+.I prot >> can be either >> .B udp >> or >>@@ -489,11 +489,11 @@ 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 >>+.BI mountproto= prot >> 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 >>+.I prot >> can be either >> .B udp >> or >>@@ -638,10 +638,10 @@ for mounting the >> .B nfs4 >> file system type. >> .TP 1.5i >>-.BI proto= netid >>+.BI proto= prot >> The transport protocol used by the NFS client >> to transmit requests to the NFS server for this mount point. >>-.I netid >>+.I prot >> can be either >> .B udp >> or >> >>-- >>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 > > -- > 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 > -- "If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy." -- George Orwell -- 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
