From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mount.nfs: Add new files for supporting string-ified mount options
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:07:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46BCD38E.3000809@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18107.50044.333597.209861@notabene.brown>
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Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday August 9, chuck.lever@oracle.com wrote:
>> Introduce support files which contain code that builds string mount
>> options and passes them to the kernel. This is a pre-requisite for
>> actually enabling /sbin/mount.nfs to do text-based mounts.
>>
>> This is only partially complete at the moment, but is presented so that
>> folks can start banging on the kernel mount option string parsing code.
>> There are clearly still parts that are not implemented quite yet, such
>> as bg and retry support, but it should be enough to get going.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
>> ---
>
>> +
>> +static int retry_opt = 10000; /* 10,000 minutes ~= 1 week */
>
> Why one week? Why not "MAX_INT"? retry_opt is never actually used, so
> I cannot guess.
retry=10000 is the default setting. According to the nfs(5) man page,
this is about 1 week.
The plan is to extract the retry setting from the mount options string
if it exists, and use the default value of 10000 if it does not.
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2007-08-09 21:37 [PATCH 4/5] mount.nfs: Add new files for supporting string-ified mount options Chuck Lever
2007-08-10 1:46 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-10 21:07 ` Chuck Lever [this message]
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