Re: inconsistencies in nfs(5)

[Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>]

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rnews@tasking.nl wrote:
> 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.

This is still in utils/mount/nfsmount.c.

I'm not sure how this can affect other mount commands running 
concurrently on the same client.  The man page implies that if one mount 
command has backgrounded against a server, subsequent mount commands 
against the same server will just go right into the background.  But 
prev_bg_host is unique in each instance of the mount command.

Can you help me understand what you intended?  Do you have a test case?

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