From 47c6f0361a3809cfcf75ae80ef14683462955d66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 22:54:56 +0000
Subject: Document the requirements of dynamic loading on mounting order. 
 Cross-ref to vfsload(3).

---
 sbin/mount/mount.8 | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'sbin/mount/mount.8')

diff --git a/sbin/mount/mount.8 b/sbin/mount/mount.8
index e2c53c8..508ca70 100644
--- a/sbin/mount/mount.8
+++ b/sbin/mount/mount.8
@@ -170,7 +170,9 @@ is used to indicate the file system type.
 The type
 .Ar ufs
 is the default.
-The \fI-t\fP option can be used
+The 
+.Fl t
+option can be used
 to indicate that the actions should only be taken on
 filesystems of the specified type.
 More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list.
@@ -199,6 +201,20 @@ where
 is replaced by the type name.
 For example, nfs filesystems are mounted by the program
 .Pa /sbin/mount_nfs .
+.Pp
+Most filesystems will be dynamically loaded by their mount programs
+if not already present in the kernel, using the
+.Xr vfsload 3
+subroutine.  Because this mechanism requires writable temporary space,
+the filesystem type containing
+.Pa /tmp
+must be compiled into the kernel, and the filesystems containing
+.Pa /tmp 
+and
+.Pa /usr/bin/ld 
+must be listed in
+.Pa /etc/fstab
+before any filesystems which might be dynamically loaded.
 .It Fl u
 The
 .Fl u
@@ -241,6 +257,7 @@ file system table
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mount 2 ,
+.Xr vfsload 3 ,
 .Xr fstab 5 ,
 .Xr mount_cd9660 8 ,
 .Xr mount_fdesc 8 ,
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