Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote on Wed 24.Jun'09 at 14:22:20 +0100

> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 02:15:06PM +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote:
> > 
> > If anyone is interested, here is a patch to mount_nfs' man page, to include
> > mount_nfs(8) parameters' long versions (the fstab(5) style long versions).
> > Perhaps referring to the options as "long versions" is not quite right, but
> > I couldn't come up with anything different.
> > 
> 
> hi. sorry to take so long on this one. i was hoping an nfs hacker would
> pick it up ;)
> 
> anyway, as i understand it, these long versions would have to be
> specified in fstab(5), right? there is no way to actually pass them to
> mount_nfs itself. or do i have that wrong?
> 
> anyway, i think it does make sense to document them, but i think we
> could cut down on verbiage. what about if we altered the "options are as
> follows" lines to say that long version names can be given to fstab, and
> do it this way:
> 
>       .It 2 Pq nfsv2
>       Use the NFS Version 2 protocol.
>       .It 3 Pq nfsv3
>       ...
I like this a little bit better then what was previously proposed.

I wouldn't mind just removing the long options all togather, but I
doubt thats possible now.

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