From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mount: Mount should retry unreachable hosts
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:15:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA3DB48.8010506@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100310214136.3002.78499.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
On 03/10/2010 04:42 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Currently if a server is up but not responding (ie, it answers ARP
> requests, but not NFS or RPC requests), mount retries or backgrounds
> itself waiting for the server.
>
> If the server is not responding on the network at all, mount fails
> the mount request immediately.
>
> Users might find it more useful if mount retried in both cases.
>
> Note that this change means attempting to mount using a misspelled
> server name will "hang" for the retry amount. I suppose the error
> message isn't very helpful whether it fails immediately or waits
> a couple of minutes, though I imagine that an unreachable server is a
> much more common occurrence than a misspelling.
>
> Reported-by: Daniel Goering <g_daniel@gmx.net>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
> ---
Committed...
steved.
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2010-03-10 21:42 [PATCH] mount: Mount should retry unreachable hosts Chuck Lever
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