- Documentation for 'rsize' and 'wsize' NFS mount options is misleading --- util-linux-2.12p/mount/mount.8.nfsdoc 2005-05-10 11:46:25.119592000 -0400 +++ util-linux-2.12p/mount/mount.8 2005-10-07 09:46:13.374277000 -0400 @@ -1339,12 +1339,17 @@ For details, see Especially useful options include .TP -.B rsize=8192,wsize=8192 -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 .) +.B rsize=32768,wsize=32768 +This causes the NFS client to try to negotiate a buffer size +up to the size specified. +A large buffer size does improve performance, but both the +server and client have to support it. +In the case where one of these does not support the size specified, +the size negotiated will be the largest that both support. +.TP +.B intr +This will allow NFS operations (on hard mounts) to be +interrupted while waiting for a response from the server. .TP .B hard The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file system will hang