Re: inconsistencies in nfs(5)

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Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
| +  The description for the "bg" option claims "After a mount operation 
| is backgrounded, all subsequent mounts on the same NFS server will be 
| backgrounded immediately, without first attempting the mount."  I don't 
| think there's logic to do that in either the legacy mount command or in 
| mount.nfs.  Should this text be removed from the man page?

I added that text in 1997, in a patch that was included in mount-2.7g.
It referred to the following fragment in nfsmount.c:

+       /*
+        * If the previous mount operation on the same host was
+        * backgrounded, and the "bg" for this mount is also set,
+        * give up immediately, to avoid the initial timeout.
+        */
+       if (bg && !running_bg &&
+           prev_bg_host && strcmp(hostname, prev_bg_host) == 0) {
+               if (retry > 0)
+                       retval = EX_BG;
+               return retval;
+       }

This code got removed somewhere after util-linux-2.12p, but I don't
know the details.

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Dick Streefland                      ////                      Altium BV
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