Re: mount_nfs -T -i --> fstab?

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it.invalid)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: 30 Dec 2004 22:26:49 GMT

Begin <cr0l9g$2fq0$1@hedeland.org>
On 2004-12-30, Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> wrote:
> In article <klLAd.31234$F25.2769@okepread07> conrads@cox.net (Conrad
> J. Sabatier) writes:
[snip!]
>>
>>SRVR:/nfs/share /some/mount/point nfs rw,-Ti 0 0
>>
>>should do the trick.
>
> Are you sure? I haven't tried it recently, but ISTR that only the words
> allowed with the -o option can be given in the fstab options field, and
> fstab(5) seems to agree.

If you can pass it to mount -o, it can go into that field. Note that
the opions mentioned are options to mount_nfs, so mount -o-Ti will end
up as mount_nfs -Ti, which is what you want. I must admit not having
tried with mount_nfs, but mount_smbfs I've had the opportunity and need
to pass options in that way, and that worked.

> In this case it should be OK to use
>
> SRVR:/nfs/share /some/mount/point nfs rw,tcp,intr 0 0
>
> - but not all mount_xxx options are available in -o form. Hm,
> mount_nfs(8) lists those as "Historic" and "deprecated" - hopefully that
> just refers to their usage with mount_nfs, the possibility to specify
> mount_xxx options in fstab is something that should be extended IMHO,
> not reduced...

I tend to agree, and while I haven't really tried to find out more about
it, I am fairly curious to know why. It sounds a bit like a variant of
the dreaded --long-options-are-teh-leet - disease. ICBW, of course. 

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