Steve, Forwarded to you as suggested by Bruce Fields -- see below. Chris -------- Forwarded Message -------- On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 06:49:40PM +0100, Chris Hall wrote:
On 19/09/2020 17:33, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 02:06:23PM +0100, Chris Hall wrote: >>Also FWIW, I gather that this is configuration for the client-side >>'mount' of nfs exports, *only*. I suppose it should be obvious that >>this has absolutely nothing to do with configuring (server-side) >>'mountd'. Speaking as a fully paid up moron-in-a-hurry, it has >>taken me a while to work that out :-( [I suggest that the comments >>in the .conf files and the man-page could say that nfs.conf is >>server-side and nfsmount.conf is client-side -- just a few words, >>for the avoidance of doubt.] > >That sounds sensible. If you're feeling industrious, you can > > git clone git://linux-nfs.org/~steved/nfs-utils > >and patch those files and mail us a patch.... Enclosed are suggested updates.
Oh, great, thanks. Steve Dickson handles these, so send it to steved@xxxxxxxxxx, cc: linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, and he should pick it up. --b.
Chris
diff --git a/nfs.conf b/nfs.conf index 186a5b19..9bfa0302 100644 --- a/nfs.conf +++ b/nfs.conf @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ # This is a general configuration for the # NFS daemons and tools # +# Note that this is configuration for server-side NFS, only. +# [general] # pipefs-directory=/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs # diff --git a/systemd/nfs.conf.man b/systemd/nfs.conf.man index 3f1c7261..a647a29b 100644 --- a/systemd/nfs.conf.man +++ b/systemd/nfs.conf.man @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ nfs.conf \- general configuration for NFS daemons and tools .SH SYNOPSIS .I /etc/nfs.conf +.PP +Note that this is configuration for server-side NFS, only. See +nfsmount.conf for the configuration of client-side NFS. .SH DESCRIPTION .PP This file contains site-specific configuration for various NFS daemons diff --git a/utils/mount/nfsmount.conf b/utils/mount/nfsmount.conf index 6bdc225a..79d23caa 100644 --- a/utils/mount/nfsmount.conf +++ b/utils/mount/nfsmount.conf @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ # # /etc/nfsmount.conf - see nfsmount.conf(5) for details # +# Note that this is configuration for client-side mount operations, only. +# # This is an NFS mount configuration file. This file can be broken # up into three different sections: Mount, Server and Global # @@ -115,16 +117,20 @@ # Sets all attributes times to the same time (in seconds) # actimeo=30 # -# Server Mountd port mountport +# Server Mountd port mountport - do *not* set this if *any* server +# being used only supports nfs4 # mountport=4001 # -# Server Mountd Protocol +# Server Mountd Protocol - do *not* set this if *any* server +# being used only supports nfs4 # mountproto=tcp # -# Server Mountd Version +# Server Mountd Version - do *not* set this if *any* server +# being used only supports nfs4 # mountvers=3 # -# Server Mountd Host +# Server Mountd Host - do *not* set this if *any* server +# being used only supports nfs4 # mounthost=hostname # # Server Port diff --git a/utils/mount/nfsmount.conf.man b/utils/mount/nfsmount.conf.man index 3aa34564..f8dfb7d6 100644 --- a/utils/mount/nfsmount.conf.man +++ b/utils/mount/nfsmount.conf.man @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ nfsmount.conf - Configuration file for NFS mounts .SH SYNOPSIS Configuration file for NFS mounts that allows options to be set globally, per server or per mount point. +.PP +Note that this is configuration for client-side mount operations, +only. See nfs.conf for the configuration of server-side NFS. .SH DESCRIPTION The configuration file is made up of multiple sections followed by variables associated with that section.
