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authorнаб <[email protected]>2021-05-24 20:26:39 +0200
committerBrian Behlendorf <[email protected]>2021-05-26 21:44:56 -0700
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mount.zfs.8: match to reality; zfsprops.8: add missing temporary options
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <[email protected]> Closes #12111
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-'\" t
.\"
.\" CDDL HEADER START
.\"
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@
.\"
.\" CDDL HEADER END
.\"
-.\"
.\" Copyright 2013 Darik Horn <[email protected]>. All rights reserved.
.\"
.Dd May 24, 2021
@@ -37,68 +35,49 @@
.Ar mountpoint
.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
.Nm
-is part of the zfsutils package for Linux. It is a helper program that
-is usually invoked by the
+helper is used by
+.Xr mount 8
+to mount filesystem snapshots and
+.Sy mountpoint= Ns Ar legacy
+ZFS filesystems, as well as by
+.Xr zfs 8
+when the
+.Ev Em $ZFS_MOUNT_HELPER
+environment variable is not set.
+Users should should invoke either
.Xr mount 8
or
.Xr zfs 8
-commands to mount a ZFS dataset.
+in most cases.
.Pp
-All
.Ar options
-are handled according to the FILESYSTEM INDEPENDENT MOUNT OPTIONS
-section in the
-.Xr mount 8
-manual, except for those described below.
+are handled according to the
+.Em Temporary Mount Point Properties
+section in
+.Xr zfsprops 8 ,
+except for those described below.
.Pp
-The
-.Ar dataset
-parameter is a ZFS filesystem name, as output by the
-.Nm zfs Cm load-key Fl h Fl o Ar name
-command. This parameter never has a leading slash character and is
-not a device name.
-.Pp
-The
-.Ar mountpoint
-parameter is the path name of a directory.
+If
+.Pa /etc/mtab
+is a regular file and
+.Fl n
+was not specified, it will be updated via libmount.
.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width "-o xa"
.It Fl s
-Ignore bad or sloppy mount options.
+Ignore unknown (sloppy) mount options.
.It Fl f
-Do a fake mount; do not perform the mount operation.
+Do everything except actually executing the system call.
.It Fl n
-Do not update the /etc/mtab file.
+Never update
+.Pa /etc/mtab .
.It Fl v
-Increase verbosity.
+Print resolved mount options and parser state.
.It Fl h
Print the usage message.
-.It Fl o Ar context
-This flag sets the SELinux context for all files in the filesystem
-under that mountpoint.
-.It Fl o Ar fscontext
-This flag sets the SELinux context for the filesystem being mounted.
-.It Fl o Ar defcontext
-This flag sets the SELinux context for unlabeled files.
-.It Fl o Ar rootcontext
-This flag sets the SELinux context for the root inode of the filesystem.
-.It Fl o Ar legacy
-This private flag indicates that the
-.Ar dataset
-has an entry in the /etc/fstab file.
-.It Fl o Ar noxattr
-This private flag disables extended attributes.
-.It Fl o Ar xattr
-This private flag enables directory-based extended attributes and, if
-appropriate, adds a ZFS context to the selinux system policy.
-.It Fl o Ar saxattr
-This private flag enables system attributed-based extended attributes and, if
-appropriate, adds a ZFS context to the selinux system policy.
-.It Fl o Ar dirxattr
-Equivalent to
-.Ar xattr .
.It Fl o Ar zfsutil
This private flag indicates that
.Xr mount 8
@@ -107,32 +86,7 @@ is being called by the
command.
.El
.
-.Sh NOTES
-ZFS conventionally requires that the
-.Ar mountpoint
-be an empty directory, but the Linux implementation inconsistently
-enforces the requirement.
-.Pp
-The
-.Nm
-helper does not mount the contents of zvols.
-.
-.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width "/etc/fstab"
-.It Pa /etc/fstab
-The static filesystem table.
-.It Pa /etc/mtab
-The mounted filesystem table.
-.El
-.
-.Sh AUTHORS
-The primary author of
-.Nm
-is Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>.
-.Pp
-This man page was written by Darik Horn <[email protected]>.
-.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr fstab 5 ,
.Xr mount 8 ,
-.Xr zfs 8
+.Xr zfs-mount 8