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Note that NFS version 2 has a file size limit of 2 101gigabytes. 102.It Fl 3 103Use the NFS Version 3 protocol. 104.It Fl D 105Used to set the 106.Dq "dead server threshold" 107to the specified number of round trip timeout intervals. 108After a 109.Dq "dead server threshold" 110of retransmit timeouts, 111cached data for the unresponsive server is assumed to still be valid. 112Values may be set in the range of 1 - 9, with 9 referring to an 113.Dq "infinite dead threshold" 114(i.e. never assume cached data still valid). 115This option is not generally recommended and is really an experimental 116feature. 117.It Fl I 118Set the readdir read size to the specified value. 119The value should normally 120be a multiple of DIRBLKSIZ that is \(<= the read size for the mount. 121.It Fl K 122Pass Kerberos authenticators to the server for client-to-server 123user-credential mapping. 124This requires that the kernel be built with the NFSKERB option. 125The use of this option will prevent the kernel from compiling 126unless calls to the appropriate Kerberos encryption routines 127are provided in the NFS source. 128(Refer to the INTERNET-DRAFT titled 129.%T "Authentication Mechanisms for ONC RPC" , 130for more information.) 131.It Fl N 132Do 133.Em not 134use a reserved socket port number (see below). 135.It Fl P 136Use a reserved socket port number. 137This flag is obsolete, and only retained for compatibility reasons. 138Reserved port numbers are used by default now. 139(For the rare case where the client has a trusted root account 140but untrustworthy users and the network cables are in secure areas this does 141help, but for normal desktop clients this does not apply.) 142.It Fl R 143Set the mount retry count to the specified value. 144The default is a retry count of zero, which means to keep retrying 145forever. 146There is a 60 second delay between each attempt. 147.It Fl T 148Use TCP transport instead of UDP. 149This is recommended for servers that are not on the same LAN cable as 150the client. 151(NB: This is NOT supported by most 152.No non- Ns Bx 153servers.) 154.It Fl U 155Force the mount protocol to use UDP transport, even for TCP NFS mounts. 156(Necessary for some old 157.Bx 158servers.) 159.It Fl a 160Set the read-ahead count to the specified value. 161This may be in the range of 0 - 4, and determines how many blocks 162will be read ahead when a large file is being read sequentially. 163Trying a value greater than 1 for this is suggested for 164mounts with a large bandwidth * delay product. 165.It Fl b 166If an initial attempt to contact the server fails, fork off a child to keep 167trying the mount in the background. 168Useful for 169.Xr fstab 5 , 170where the filesystem mount is not critical to multiuser operation. 171.It Fl c 172For UDP mount points, do not do a 173.Xr connect 2 . 174This must be used if the server does not reply to requests from the standard 175NFS port number 2049 or replies to requests using a different IP address 176(which can occur if the server is multi-homed). 177Setting the 178.Va vfs.nfs.nfs_ip_paranoia 179sysctl to 0 will make this option the default. 180.It Fl d 181Turn off the dynamic retransmit timeout estimator. 182This may be useful for UDP mounts that exhibit high retry rates, 183since it is possible that the dynamically estimated timeout interval is too 184short. 185.It Fl g 186Set the maximum size of the group list for the credentials to the 187specified value. 188This should be used for mounts on old servers that cannot handle a 189group list size of 16, as specified in RFC 1057. 190Try 8, if users in a lot of groups cannot get response from the mount 191point. 192.It Fl i 193Make the mount interruptible, which implies that file system calls that 194are delayed due to an unresponsive server will fail with 195.Er EINTR 196when a 197termination signal is posted for the process. 198.It Fl l 199Used with NFSV3 to specify that the \fBReaddirPlus\fR RPC should 200be used. 201This option reduces RPC traffic for cases such as 202.Dq "ls -l" , 203but tends to flood the attribute and name caches with prefetched entries. 204Try this option and see whether performance improves or degrades. 205Probably 206most useful for client to server network interconnects with a large bandwidth 207times delay product. 208.It Fl m 209Set the Kerberos realm to the string argument. 210Used with the 211.Fl K 212option for mounts to other realms. 213.It Fl o 214Options are specified with a 215.Fl o 216flag followed by a comma separated string of options. 217See the 218.Xr mount 8 219man page for possible options and their meanings. 220The following NFS specific option is also available: 221.Bl -tag -width indent 222.It port=<port_number> 223Use specified port number for NFS requests. 224The default is to query the portmapper for the NFS port. 225.It acregmin=<seconds> 226.It acregmax=<seconds> 227.It acdirmin=<seconds> 228.It acdirmax=<seconds> 229When attributes of files are cached, a timeout calculated to determine 230whether a given cache entry has expired. These four values determine the 231upper and lower bounds of the timeouts for ``directory'' attributes and 232``regular'' (ie: everything else). The default values are 3 -> 60 seconds 233for regular files, and 30 -> 60 seconds for directories. The algorithm to 234calculate the timeout is based on the age of the file. The older the file, 235the longer the cache is considered valid, subject to the limits above. 236.El 237.Pp 238.Sy Historic Fl o Sy Options 239.Pp 240Use of these options is deprecated, they are only mentioned here for 241compatibility with historic versions of 242.Nm . 243.Bl -tag -width "dumbtimerXX" 244.It bg 245Same as 246.Fl b . 247.It conn 248Same as not specifying 249.Fl c . 250.It dumbtimer 251Same as 252.Fl d . 253.It intr 254Same as 255.Fl i . 256.It kerb 257Same as 258.Fl K . 259.It nfsv2 260Same as 261.Fl 2 . 262.It nfsv3 263Same as 264.Fl 3 . 265.It rdirplus 266Same as 267.Fl l . 268.It mntudp 269Same as 270.Fl U . 271.It resvport 272Same as 273.Fl P . 274.It soft 275Same as 276.Fl s . 277.It tcp 278Same as 279.Fl T . 280.El 281.It Fl r 282Set the read data size to the specified value. 283It should normally be a power of 2 greater than or equal to 1024. 284This should be used for UDP mounts when the 285.Dq "fragments dropped due to timeout" 286value is getting large while actively using a mount point. 287(Use 288.Xr netstat 1 289with the 290.Fl s 291option to see what the 292.Dq "fragments dropped due to timeout" 293value is.) 294See the 295.Fl w 296option as well. 297.It Fl s 298A soft mount, which implies that file system calls will fail 299after \fBRetry\fR round trip timeout intervals. 300.It Fl t 301Set the initial retransmit timeout to the specified value. 302May be useful for fine tuning UDP mounts over internetworks 303with high packet loss rates or an overloaded server. 304Try increasing the interval if 305.Xr nfsstat 1 306shows high retransmit rates while the file system is active or reducing the 307value if there is a low retransmit rate but long response delay observed. 308(Normally, the -d option should be specified when using this option to manually 309tune the timeout 310interval.) 311.It Fl w 312Set the write data size to the specified value. 313Ditto the comments w.r.t. the 314.Fl r 315option, but using the 316.Dq "fragments dropped due to timeout" 317value on the server instead of the client. 318Note that both the 319.Fl r 320and 321.Fl w 322options should only be used as a last ditch effort at improving performance 323when mounting servers that do not support TCP mounts. 324.It Fl x 325Set the retransmit timeout count for soft mounts to the specified value. 326.El 327.Sh SEE ALSO 328.Xr mount 2 , 329.Xr unmount 2 , 330.Xr fstab 5 , 331.Xr mount 8 , 332.Xr nfsd 8 , 333.Xr nfsiod 8 , 334.Xr showmount 8 335.Sh BUGS 336Due to the way that Sun RPC is implemented on top of UDP (unreliable datagram) 337transport, tuning such mounts is really a black art that can only be expected 338to have limited success. 339For clients mounting servers that are not on the same 340LAN cable or that tend to be overloaded, 341TCP transport is strongly recommended, 342but unfortunately this is restricted to mostly 343.Bx 4.4 344servers. 345