From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mounts.nfs: v2 and v3 background mounts should retry when server is down.
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:36:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F99878C.2050903@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A41F90-A936-4926-B532-E6600655025E@oracle.com>
On 04/25/2012 04:31 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Hi-
>
> On Apr 25, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Steve Dickson wrote:
>
>> The point of background mounts is to have the mount
>> retried if the mount fails. This patch allows the v2/v3
>> background mount to proceed in the case when the server
>> is down by not making EOPNOTSUPP a permanent error.
>
> Just curious... why wouldn't we want to do this for foreground mounts as well?
I had a similar thought but I was worried that it would change the
current behavior that people are depending on... Giving the
option of putting the mount in back ground to wait I thought
was a good compromise...
steved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-26 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 15:39 [PATCH 1/1] mounts.nfs: v2 and v3 background mounts should retry when server is down Steve Dickson
2012-04-25 20:31 ` Chuck Lever
2012-04-26 17:36 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2012-05-01 19:35 ` Steve Dickson
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