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From: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com>
To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: steved@redhat.com, rees@umich.edu
Subject: [PATCH v2] Update nfs(5) manpage - timeo for NFS/TCP
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 15:47:33 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110805021903.C84608198734@regina.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)

NFS/TCP does linear backoff then retransmiting - the manpage
was mistakenly asserting the "no backoff" theory.

Signed-off-by: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
---
 utils/mount/nfs.man |   16 ++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man
index be91a25..ff0ed60 100644
--- a/utils/mount/nfs.man
+++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man
@@ -113,12 +113,16 @@ option may mitigate some of the risks of using the
 option.
 .TP 1.5i
 .BI timeo= n
-The time (in tenths of a second) the NFS client waits for a
-response before it retries an NFS request. If this
-option is not specified, requests are retried every
-60 seconds for NFS over TCP.
-The NFS client does not perform any kind of timeout backoff
-for NFS over TCP.
+The time in deciseconds (tenths of a second) the NFS client waits for a
+response before it retries an NFS request.
+.IP
+For NFS over TCP the default
+.B timeo
+value is 600 (60 seconds).
+The NFS client performs linear backoff: After each retransmission the 
+timeout is increased by
+.BR timeo 
+up to the maximum of 600 seconds.
 .IP
 However, for NFS over UDP, the client uses an adaptive
 algorithm to estimate an appropriate timeout value for frequently used
-- 
1.7.4.4


             reply	other threads:[~2011-08-05  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-04  5:47 Max Matveev [this message]
2011-08-05 12:40 ` [PATCH v2] Update nfs(5) manpage - timeo for NFS/TCP Jim Rees
2011-08-05 13:34   ` Jim Rees
2011-08-05 20:33   ` Chuck Lever
2011-08-08  0:50     ` Max Matveev
2011-08-06  1:40   ` Max Matveev
2011-08-06 12:43     ` Jim Rees
     [not found] <201108300245.p7U2jN4j011424@ns3.rdu.redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <201108300245.p7U2jN4j011424-K5Dt2rfd30Yf7BdofF/totBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2011-08-30 12:41   ` Steve Dickson

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