nfs.man: adding new mount option max_connect
When client discovers trunkable servers, instead of dropping newly
created trunkable connections, add this connection to the existing
RPC client.
Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man
index f1b7693..57a693f 100644
--- a/utils/mount/nfs.man
+++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man
@@ -416,6 +416,19 @@
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 max_connect= n
+While
+.BR nconnect
+option sets a limit on the number of connections that can be established
+to a given server IP,
+.BR max_connect
+option allows the user to specify maximum number of connections to different
+server IPs that belong to the same NFSv4.1+ server (session trunkable
+connections) up to a limit of 16. When client discovers that it established
+a client ID to an already existing server, instead of dropping the newly
+created network transport, the client will add this new connection to the
+list of available transports for that RPC client.
+.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
