purpose of bg,hard,nointr,rsize,wsize,tcp,actimeo,vers,timeo in NFS

[senthil_kumar_1]

Hi

what is the meaning for the options used to mount NFS share. i got this info from my "/etc/fstab" file

nfs_server:/vol/DATA/oradata /home/oracle/netapp nfs rw,bg,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,actimeo=0,vers=3,timeo=600

[smatador · Accepted solution]

Hi,
Look at the mount options in this url
http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-0715/ch02s03.html

[Heironimus]

Some Linux systems have a man page for "nfs" with a detailed description of all of the options that your mount version knows how to handle.