From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 09:44:50 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: mount: add note about fcntl/ioctl unreliability on NFS to mount.8
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mount: add note about fcntl/ioctl unreliability on NFS to mount.8

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8
index 802f4e46..14a6f949 100644
--- a/mount/mount.8
+++ b/mount/mount.8
@@ -2067,6 +2067,13 @@ content of the second file also depends on the kernel and others settings (e.g.
 remote NFS server. In particular case the mount command may reports unreliable
 information about a NFS mount point and the /proc/mounts file usually contains
 more reliable information.)
+.PP
+Checking files on NFS filesystem referenced by file descriptors (i.e. the
+.BR fcntl
+and
+.BR ioctl
+families of functions) may lead to inconsistent result due to the lack of
+consistency check in kernel even if noac is used.
 .SH HISTORY
 A
 .B mount