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commit 3ff6fad27d2cd0772a40ddb65694ce04f3da83bc
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Author: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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Date: Wed Jan 29 10:42:03 2020 -0500
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manpage: Add a description of the 'nconnect' mount option
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Add a description of the 'nconnect' mount option on the 'nfs' generic
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manpage.
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Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man
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index 6ba9cef..84462cd 100644
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--- a/utils/mount/nfs.man
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+++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man
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@@ -369,6 +369,23 @@ using an automounter (refer to
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.BR automount (8)
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for details).
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.TP 1.5i
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+.BR nconnect= n
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+When using a connection oriented protocol such as TCP, it may
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+sometimes be advantageous to set up multiple connections between
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+the client and server. For instance, if your clients and/or servers
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+are equipped with multiple network interface cards (NICs), using multiple
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+connections to spread the load may improve overall performance.
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+In such cases, the
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+.BR nconnect
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+option allows the user to specify the number of connections
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+that should be established between the client and server up to
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+a limit of 16.
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+.IP
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+Note that the
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+.BR nconnect
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+option may also be used by some pNFS drivers to decide how many
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+connections to set up to the data servers.
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+.TP 1.5i
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.BR rdirplus " / " nordirplus
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Selects whether to use NFS v3 or v4 READDIRPLUS requests.
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If this option is not specified, the NFS client uses READDIRPLUS requests
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