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FSinfo static mounts
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   Each host may also have a number of statically mounted filesystems.
For example, the host may be a diskless workstation in which case it
will have no `fs' declarations.  In this case the `mount' declaration
is used to determine from where its filesystems will be mounted.  In
addition to being added to the `fstab' file, this information can also
be used to generate a suitable `bootparams' file.

     mount       : "mount" <VOLNAME> list(localinfo) ;
     
     localinfo   : localinfo_attr <STRING> ;
     
     localinfo_attr
                 : "as"
                 | "from"
                 | "fstype"
                 | "opts"
                 ;

   The filesystem specified to be mounted will be searched for in the
dictionary of volume names built when scanning the list of hosts'
definitions.

   The attributes have the following semantics:
`from MACHINE'
     mount the filesystem from the machine with the hostname of
     "machine".

`as MOUNTPOINT'
     mount the filesystem locally as the name given, in case this is
     different from the advertised volume name of the filesystem.

`opts OPTIONS'
     native mount(8) options.

`fstype TYPE'
     type of filesystem to be mounted.

   An example:

     mount /export/exec/hp300/local as /usr/local

   If the mountpoint specified is either `/' or `swap', the machine
will be considered to be booting off the net and this will be noted for
use in generating a `bootparams' file for the host which owns the
filesystems.