File 0014-mountd-update-man-page.patch of Package nfs-utils

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File 0014-mountd-update-man-page.patch of Package nfs-utils

From fd590ac8a1929660738f60a293197be98a4f59ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:41:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] mountd: update man page

The text in the manpages about the export table is a bit outdated, and
doesn't mention the in-kernel cache which is an import part of
that table.

As a future patch will enable logging of updates to that cache, it is
important to have the caching behaviour documented.  So update that
section of both man pages, and make a few other minor improvements.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
---
 utils/mountd/mountd.man |   46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

--- a/utils/mountd/mountd.man
+++ b/utils/mountd/mountd.man
@@ -13,24 +13,24 @@ The
 .B rpc.mountd
 daemon implements the server side of the NFS MOUNT protocol,
 an NFS side protocol used by NFS version 2 [RFC1094] and NFS version 3 [RFC1813].
+It also responds to requests from the Linux kernel to authenticate
+clients and provides details of access permissions.
 .PP
-An NFS server maintains a table of local physical file systems
-that are accessible to NFS clients.
-Each file system in this table is referred to as an
-.IR "exported file system" ,
-or
-.IR export ,
-for short.
-.PP
-Each file system in the export table has an access control list.
-.B rpc.mountd
-uses these access control lists to determine
-whether an NFS client is permitted to access a given file system.
-For details on how to manage your NFS server's export table, see the
-.BR exports (5)
-and
-.BR exportfs (8)
-man pages.
+The NFS server
+.RI ( nfsd )
+maintains a cache of authentication and authorization information which
+is used to identify the source of each requent, and then what access
+permissions that source has to any local filesystem.  When required
+information is not found in the cache, the server sends a request to
+.B mountd
+to fill in the missing information.  Mountd uses a table of information
+stored in
+.B /var/lib/nfs/etab
+and maintained by
+.BR exportfs (8),
+possibly based on the contents of 
+.BR exports (5),
+to respond to each request.
 .SS Mounting exported NFS File Systems
 The NFS MOUNT protocol has several procedures.
 The most important of these are
@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ A client may continue accessing an expor
 If the client reboots without sending a UMNT request, stale entries
 remain for that client in
 .IR /var/lib/nfs/rmtab .
+.SS Mounting File Systems with NFSv4
+Version 4 (and later) of NFS does not use a separate NFS MOUNT
+protocol.  Instead mounting is performed using regular NFS requests
+handled by the NFS server in the Linux kernel
+.RI ( nfsd ).
+Consequently
+.I /var/lib/nfs/rmtab
+is not updated to reflect any NFSv4 activity.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B \-d kind " or " \-\-debug kind
@@ -295,5 +303,9 @@ table of clients accessing server's expo
 RFC 1094 - "NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification"
 .br
 RFC 1813 - "NFS Version 3 Protocol Specification"
+.br
+RFC 7530 - "Network File System (NFS) Version 4 Protocol"
+.br
+RFC 8881 - "Network File System (NFS) Version 4 Minor Version 1 Protocol"
 .SH AUTHOR
 Olaf Kirch, H. J. Lu, G. Allan Morris III, and a host of others.

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