diff --git a/share/man/man5/fstab.5 b/share/man/man5/fstab.5
index 148060155de2..d34d0a0fb9d3 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/fstab.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/fstab.5
@@ -129,6 +129,11 @@ userquota=/var/quotas/tmp.user
 .Pp
 If the option ``noauto'' is specified, the filesystem will not be automatically
 mounted at system startup.
+This is recommended for all remote filesystems other than NFS,
+since only NFS mounts are delayed until after network initialization
+by the
+.Xr rc 8
+startup scripts.
 .Pp
 The type of the mount is extracted from the
 .Fa fs_mntops