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| author | Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> | 2020-01-29 10:42:03 -0500 |
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| committer | Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> | 2020-02-07 10:57:09 -0500 |
| commit | 3ff6fad27d2cd0772a40ddb65694ce04f3da83bc (patch) | |
| tree | 677a987f56e66fd71a7c22ab777953a132725af9 /utils | |
| parent | 8eeaec5f26b5bb2255e2dd4551433f78cc515ccf (diff) | |
| download | nfs-utils-3ff6fad27d2cd0772a40ddb65694ce04f3da83bc.tar.gz | |
manpage: Add a description of the 'nconnect' mount option
Add a description of the 'nconnect' mount option on the 'nfs' generic
manpage.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'utils')
| -rw-r--r-- | utils/mount/nfs.man | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man index 6ba9ceff..84462cd7 100644 --- a/utils/mount/nfs.man +++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man @@ -369,6 +369,23 @@ using an automounter (refer to .BR automount (8) for details). .TP 1.5i +.BR nconnect= n +When using a connection oriented protocol such as TCP, it may +sometimes be advantageous to set up multiple connections between +the client and server. For instance, if your clients and/or servers +are equipped with multiple network interface cards (NICs), using multiple +connections to spread the load may improve overall performance. +In such cases, the +.BR nconnect +option allows the user to specify the number of connections +that should be established between the client and server up to +a limit of 16. +.IP +Note that the +.BR nconnect +option may also be used by some pNFS drivers to decide how many +connections to set up to the data servers. +.TP 1.5i .BR rdirplus " / " nordirplus Selects whether to use NFS v3 or v4 READDIRPLUS requests. If this option is not specified, the NFS client uses READDIRPLUS requests |