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diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8 index 7f2f4d932..763e8fca7 100644 --- a/mount/mount.8 +++ b/mount/mount.8 @@ -548,6 +548,11 @@ effect. .B sync All I/O to the file system should be done synchronously. .TP +.B dirsync +All directory updates within the file system should be done synchronously. +This affects the following system calls: creat, link, unlink, symlink, +mkdir, rmdir, mknod and rename. +.TP .B user Allow an ordinary user to mount the file system. The name of the mounting user is written to mtab so that he can unmount @@ -1125,8 +1130,8 @@ For details, see Especially useful options include .TP .B rsize=8192,wsize=8192 -This will make your nfs connection much faster than with the default -buffer size of 1024. (NFSv2 does not work with larger values of +This will make your nfs connection faster than with the default +buffer size of 4096. (NFSv2 does not work with larger values of .B rsize and .BR wsize .) @@ -1175,6 +1180,7 @@ hard links instead of being suppressed. .TP \fBuid=\fP\fIvalue\fP, \fBgid=\fP\fIvalue\fP and \fBumask=\fP\fIvalue\fP Set the file permission on the filesystem. +The umask value is given in octal. By default, the files are owned by root and not readable by somebody else. .SH "Mount options for proc" @@ -1316,6 +1322,7 @@ Set the default group. .TP .B umask= Set the default umask. +The value is given in octal. .TP .B uid= Set the default user. @@ -1661,7 +1668,7 @@ temporary file It is possible for a corrupted file system to cause a crash. .PP Some Linux file systems don't support -.B "\-o sync" +.B "\-o sync and \-o dirsync" (the ext2 and ext3 file systems .I do support synchronous updates (a la BSD) when mounted with the |