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From: James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: bug in linux mount? (says NetApp)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:32:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B4C198.2070609@moving-picture.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152660478.5681.38.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> It has nothing to do with the mount timeout: Chuck is talking about the
> retransmission timeout for TCP connections 'timeo' which should indeed
> be set to a high value since TCP guarantees message delivery (unlike UDP
> which requires a small timeo value). Setting it too low means that you
> end up spamming your server with a load of unnecessary retransmissions.
> 
> This was indeed the case for some older versions of 'mount' and also for
> older versions of the am-utils/amd automounters.

Do you know how you tell what value of timeo is being used by default?

The source code for mount (nfsmount.c, part of util-linux v2.12) has the 
comment:

   /* timeo is filled in after we know whether it'll be TCP or UDP */

Can I assume, in this case, the value of timeo will be a suitable value 
for tcp mounts?

Thanks

James Pearson


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-12  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-11 19:00 bug in linux mount? (says NetApp) Gregory Baker
2006-07-11 20:21 ` Chuck Lever
2006-07-14 20:36   ` Gregory Baker
2006-07-11 23:27 ` [NFS] " Trond Myklebust
2006-07-11 23:34   ` Gregory Baker
2006-07-12  3:03   ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2006-07-12 12:19     ` Trond Myklebust
2006-07-12  9:32   ` James Pearson [this message]
2006-07-12  0:40 ` Blake Golliher
2006-07-12  1:07   ` Gregory Baker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-12  2:13 Gomez, Daniel
2006-07-12 20:23 Murata, Dennis W (SAIC)
2006-07-13 12:55 ` Ian Kent
2006-07-13 13:37 ` Trond Myklebust

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