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retrans 50.Ar rhost : Ns Ar path node 51.Sh DESCRIPTION 52The 53.Nm 54utility calls the 55.Xr nmount 2 56system call to prepare and graft a remote NFS file system 57.Pq Ar rhost : Ns Ar path 58on to the file system tree at the point 59.Ar node . 60This command is normally executed by 61.Xr mount 8 . 62It implements the mount protocol as described in RFC 1094, Appendix A and 63.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" , 64Appendix I. 65.Pp 66By default, 67.Nm 68keeps retrying until the mount succeeds. 69This behaviour is intended for file systems listed in 70.Xr fstab 5 71that are critical to the boot process. 72For non-critical file systems, the 73.Cm bg 74and 75.Cm retrycnt 76options provide mechanisms to prevent the boot process from hanging 77if the server is unavailable. 78.Pp 79If the server becomes unresponsive while an NFS file system is 80mounted, any new or outstanding file operations on that file system 81will hang uninterruptibly until the server comes back. 82To modify this default behaviour, see the 83.Cm intr 84and 85.Cm soft 86options. 87.Pp 88The options are: 89.Bl -tag -width indent 90.It Fl o 91Options are specified with a 92.Fl o 93flag followed by a comma separated string of options. 94See the 95.Xr mount 8 96man page for possible options and their meanings. 97The following NFS specific options are also available: 98.Bl -tag -width indent 99.It Cm acregmin Ns = Ns Aq Ar seconds 100.It Cm acregmax Ns = Ns Aq Ar seconds 101.It Cm acdirmin Ns = Ns Aq Ar seconds 102.It Cm acdirmax Ns = Ns Aq Ar seconds 103When attributes of files are cached, a timeout calculated to determine 104whether a given cache entry has expired. 105These four values determine the upper and lower bounds of the timeouts for 106.Dq directory 107attributes and 108.Dq regular 109(ie: everything else). 110The default values are 3 -> 60 seconds 111for regular files, and 30 -> 60 seconds for directories. 112The algorithm to calculate the timeout is based on the age of the file. 113The older the file, 114the longer the cache is considered valid, subject to the limits above. 115.It Cm actimeo Ns = Ns Aq Ar seconds 116Set four cache timeouts above to specified value. 117.It Cm allgssname 118This option can be used along with 119.Fl o Cm gssname 120to specify that all operations should use the host-based initiator 121credential. 122This may be used for clients that run system daemons that need to 123access files on the NFSv4 mounted volume. 124.It Cm bg 125If an initial attempt to contact the server fails, fork off a child to keep 126trying the mount in the background. 127Useful for 128.Xr fstab 5 , 129where the file system mount is not critical to multiuser operation. 130.It Cm deadthresh Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 131Set the 132.Dq "dead server threshold" 133to the specified number of round trip timeout intervals before a 134.Dq "server not responding" 135message is displayed. 136.It Cm dumbtimer 137Turn off the dynamic retransmit timeout estimator. 138This may be useful for UDP mounts that exhibit high retry rates, 139since it is possible that the dynamically estimated timeout interval is too 140short. 141.It Cm fg 142Same as not specifying 143.Cm bg . 144.It Cm gssname Ns = Ns Aq Ar service-principal-name 145This option can be used with the KerberosV security flavors for NFSv4 mounts 146to specify the 147.Dq "service-principal-name" 148of a host-based entry in the default 149keytab file that is used for system operations. 150It allows the mount to be performed by 151.Dq "root" 152and avoids problems with 153cached credentials for the system operations expiring. 154The 155.Dq "service-prinicpal-name" 156should be specified without instance or domain and is typically 157.Dq "host" , 158.Dq "nfs" 159or 160.Dq "root" . 161.It Cm hard 162Same as not specifying 163.Cm soft . 164.It Cm intr 165Make the mount interruptible, which implies that file system calls that 166are delayed due to an unresponsive server will fail with EINTR when a 167termination signal is posted for the process. 168.It Cm maxgroups Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 169Set the maximum size of the group list for the credentials to the 170specified value. 171This should be used for mounts on old servers that cannot handle a 172group list size of 16, as specified in RFC 1057. 173Try 8, if users in a lot of groups cannot get response from the mount 174point. 175.It Cm mntudp 176Force the mount protocol to use UDP transport, even for TCP NFS mounts. 177(Necessary for some old 178.Bx 179servers.) 180.It Cm nametimeo Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 181Override the default of NFS_DEFAULT_NAMETIMEO for the timeout (in seconds) 182for positive name cache entries. 183If this is set to 0 it disables positive name caching for the mount point. 184.It Cm negnametimeo Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 185Override the default of NFS_DEFAULT_NEGNAMETIMEO for the timeout (in seconds) 186for negative name cache entries. If this is set to 0 it disables negative 187name caching for the mount point. 188.It Cm nfsv2 189Use the NFS Version 2 protocol (the default is to try version 3 first 190then version 2). 191Note that NFS version 2 has a file size limit of 2 gigabytes. 192.It Cm nfsv3 193Use the NFS Version 3 protocol. 194.It Cm nfsv4 195Use the NFS Version 4 protocol. 196This option will force the mount to use 197TCP transport. 198.It Cm minorversion Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 199Override the default of 0 for the minor version of the NFS Version 4 protocol. 200The only minor version currently supported is 1. 201This option is only meaningful when used with the 202.Cm nfsv4 203option. 204.It Cm pnfs 205Enable support for parallel NFS (pNFS) for minor version 1 of the 206NFS Version 4 protocol. 207This option is only meaningful when used with the 208.Cm minorversion 209option. 210.It Cm noac 211Disable attribute caching. 212.It Cm noconn 213For UDP mount points, do not do a 214.Xr connect 2 . 215This must be used if the server does not reply to requests from the standard 216NFS port number 2049 or replies to requests using a different IP address 217(which can occur if the server is multi-homed). 218Setting the 219.Va vfs.nfs.nfs_ip_paranoia 220sysctl to 0 will make this option the default. 221.It Cm nocto 222Normally, NFS clients maintain the close-to-open cache coherency. 223This works by flushing at close time and checking at open time. 224Checking at open time is implemented by getting attributes from 225the server and purging the data cache if they do not match 226attributes cached by the client. 227.Pp 228This option disables checking at open time. 229It may improve performance for read-only mounts, 230but should only be used if the data on the server changes rarely. 231Be sure to understand the consequences before enabling this option. 232.It Cm noinet4 , noinet6 233Disables 234.Dv AF_INET 235or 236.Dv AF_INET6 237connections. 238Useful for hosts that have 239both an A record and an AAAA record for the same name. 240.It Cm nolockd 241Do 242.Em not 243forward 244.Xr fcntl 2 245locks over the wire. 246All locks will be local and not seen by the server 247and likewise not seen by other NFS clients. 248This removes the need to run the 249.Xr rpcbind 8 250service and the 251.Xr rpc.statd 8 252and 253.Xr rpc.lockd 8 254servers on the client. 255Note that this option will only be honored when performing the 256initial mount, it will be silently ignored if used while updating 257the mount options. 258.It Cm noncontigwr 259This mount option allows the NFS client to 260combine non-contiguous byte ranges being written 261such that the dirty byte range becomes a superset of the bytes 262that are dirty. 263This reduces the number of writes significantly for software 264builds. 265The merging of byte ranges isn't done if the file has been file 266locked, since most applications modifying a file from multiple 267clients will use file locking. 268As such, this option could result in a corrupted file for the 269rare case of an application modifying the file from multiple 270clients concurrently without using file locking. 271.It Cm principal 272For the RPCSEC_GSS security flavors, such as krb5, krb5i and krb5p, 273this option sets the name of the host based principal name expected 274by the server. This option overrides the default, which will be 275``nfs@<server-fqdn>'' and should normally be sufficient. 276.It Cm noresvport 277Do 278.Em not 279use a reserved socket port number (see below). 280.It Cm port Ns = Ns Aq Ar port_number 281Use specified port number for NFS requests. 282The default is to query the portmapper for the NFS port. 283.It Cm proto Ns = Ns Aq Ar protocol 284Specify transport protocol version to use. 285Currently, they are: 286.Bd -literal 287udp - Use UDP over IPv4 288tcp - Use TCP over IPv4 289udp6 - Use UDP over IPv6 290tcp6 - Use TCP over IPv6 291.Ed 292.It Cm rdirplus 293Used with NFSV3 to specify that the \fBReaddirPlus\fR RPC should 294be used. 295For NFSV4, setting this option has a similar effect, in that it will make 296the Readdir Operation get more attributes. 297This option reduces RPC traffic for cases such as 298.Dq "ls -l" , 299but tends to flood the attribute and name caches with prefetched entries. 300Try this option and see whether performance improves or degrades. 301Probably 302most useful for client to server network interconnects with a large bandwidth 303times delay product. 304.It Cm readahead Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 305Set the read-ahead count to the specified value. 306This may be in the range of 0 - 4, and determines how many blocks 307will be read ahead when a large file is being read sequentially. 308Trying a value greater than 1 for this is suggested for 309mounts with a large bandwidth * delay product. 310.It Cm readdirsize Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 311Set the readdir read size to the specified value. 312The value should normally 313be a multiple of 314.Dv DIRBLKSIZ 315that is <= the read size for the mount. 316.It Cm resvport 317Use a reserved socket port number. 318This flag is obsolete, and only retained for compatibility reasons. 319Reserved port numbers are used by default now. 320(For the rare case where the client has a trusted root account 321but untrustworthy users and the network cables are in secure areas this does 322help, but for normal desktop clients this does not apply.) 323.It Cm retrans Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 324Set the retransmit timeout count for soft mounts to the specified value. 325.It Cm retrycnt Ns = Ns Aq Ar count 326Set the mount retry count to the specified value. 327The default is a retry count of zero, which means to keep retrying 328forever. 329There is a 60 second delay between each attempt. 330.It Cm rsize Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 331Set the read data size to the specified value. 332It should normally be a power of 2 greater than or equal to 1024. 333This should be used for UDP mounts when the 334.Dq "fragments dropped due to timeout" 335value is getting large while actively using a mount point. 336(Use 337.Xr netstat 1 338with the 339.Fl s 340option to see what the 341.Dq "fragments dropped due to timeout" 342value is.) 343.It Cm sec Ns = Ns Aq Ar flavor 344This option specifies what security flavor should be used for the mount. 345Currently, they are: 346.Bd -literal 347krb5 - Use KerberosV authentication 348krb5i - Use KerberosV authentication and 349 apply integrity checksums to RPCs 350krb5p - Use KerberosV authentication and 351 encrypt the RPC data 352sys - The default AUTH_SYS, which uses a 353 uid + gid list authenticator 354.Ed 355.It Cm soft 356A soft mount, which implies that file system calls will fail 357after 358.Ar retrycnt 359round trip timeout intervals. 360.It Cm tcp 361Use TCP transport. 362This is the default option, as it provides for increased reliability on both 363LAN and WAN configurations compared to UDP. 364Some old NFS servers do not support this method; UDP mounts may be required 365for interoperability. 366.It Cm timeout Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 367Set the initial retransmit timeout to the specified value, 368expressed in tenths of a second. 369May be useful for fine tuning UDP mounts over internetworks 370with high packet loss rates or an overloaded server. 371Try increasing the interval if 372.Xr nfsstat 1 373shows high retransmit rates while the file system is active or reducing the 374value if there is a low retransmit rate but long response delay observed. 375(Normally, the 376.Cm dumbtimer 377option should be specified when using this option to manually 378tune the timeout 379interval.) 380.It Cm timeo Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 381Alias for 382.Cm timeout . 383.It Cm udp 384Use UDP transport. 385.It Cm vers Ns = Ns Aq Ar vers_number 386Use the specified version number for NFS requests. 387See the 388.Cm nfsv2 , 389.Cm nfsv3 , 390and 391.Cm nfsv4 392options for details. 393.It Cm wcommitsize Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 394Set the maximum pending write commit size to the specified value. 395This determines the maximum amount of pending write data that the NFS 396client is willing to cache for each file. 397.It Cm wsize Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 398Set the write data size to the specified value. 399Ditto the comments w.r.t.\& the 400.Cm rsize 401option, but using the 402.Dq "fragments dropped due to timeout" 403value on the server instead of the client. 404Note that both the 405.Cm rsize 406and 407.Cm wsize 408options should only be used as a last ditch effort at improving performance 409when mounting servers that do not support TCP mounts. 410.El 411.El 412.Sh COMPATIBILITY 413The following command line flags are equivalent to 414.Fl o 415named options and are supported for compatibility with older 416installations. 417.Bl -tag -width indent 418.It Fl 2 419Same as 420.Fl o Cm nfsv2 421.It Fl 3 422Same as 423.Fl o Cm nfsv3 424.It Fl D 425Same as 426.Fl o Cm deadthresh 427.It Fl I 428Same as 429.Fl o Cm readdirsize Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 430.It Fl L 431Same as 432.Fl o Cm nolockd 433.It Fl N 434Same as 435.Fl o Cm noresvport 436.It Fl P 437Use a reserved socket port number. 438This flag is obsolete, and only retained for compatibility reasons. 439(For the rare case where the client has a trusted root account 440but untrustworthy users and the network cables are in secure areas this does 441help, but for normal desktop clients this does not apply.) 442.It Fl R 443Same as 444.Fl o Cm retrycnt Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 445.It Fl T 446Same as 447.Fl o Cm tcp 448.It Fl U 449Same as 450.Fl o Cm mntudp 451.It Fl a 452Same as 453.Fl o Cm readahead Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 454.It Fl b 455Same as 456.Fl o Cm bg 457.It Fl c 458Same as 459.Fl o Cm noconn 460.It Fl d 461Same as 462.Fl o Cm dumbtimer 463.It Fl g 464Same as 465.Fl o Cm maxgroups 466.It Fl i 467Same as 468.Fl o Cm intr 469.It Fl l 470Same as 471.Fl o Cm rdirplus 472.It Fl r 473Same as 474.Fl o Cm rsize Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 475.It Fl s 476Same as 477.Fl o Cm soft 478.It Fl t 479Same as 480.Fl o Cm retransmit Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 481.It Fl w 482Same as 483.Fl o Cm wsize Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 484.It Fl x 485Same as 486.Fl o Cm retrans Ns = Ns Aq Ar value 487.El 488.Pp 489The following 490.Fl o 491named options are equivalent to other 492.Fl o 493named options and are supported for compatibility with other 494operating systems (e.g., Linux, Solaris, and OSX) to ease usage of 495.Xr autofs 5 496support. 497.Bl -tag -width indent 498.It Fl o Cm vers Ns = Ns 2 499Same as 500.Fl o Cm nfsv2 501.It Fl o Cm vers Ns = Ns 3 502Same as 503.Fl o Cm nfsv3 504.It Fl o Cm vers Ns = Ns 4 505Same as 506.Fl o Cm nfsv4 507.El 508.Sh SEE ALSO 509.Xr nmount 2 , 510.Xr unmount 2 , 511.Xr nfsv4 4 , 512.Xr fstab 5 , 513.Xr gssd 8 , 514.Xr mount 8 , 515.Xr nfsd 8 , 516.Xr nfsiod 8 , 517.Xr showmount 8 518.Sh BUGS 519Since nfsv4 performs open/lock operations that have their ordering strictly 520enforced by the server, the options 521.Cm intr 522and 523.Cm soft 524cannot be safely used. 525.Cm hard 526nfsv4 mounts are strongly recommended. 527