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From: Christopher Hawkins <chawkins-eCVT+wl/HiBBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Shehjar Tikoo <shehjart-+FkPdpiNhgJBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Returning error to app on TCP disconnect
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:02:41 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488124.741275998561110.JavaMail.javamailuser@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5462028.721275998477790.JavaMail.javamailuser@localhost>

Hi Shejar, what about the "soft" mount option on the client side, and possibly "intr"? Maybe I am misunderstanding your goal but it sounds like that is what you want. 

Chris  

----- "Shehjar Tikoo" <shehjart-+FkPdpiNhgJBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I am working on a setup where when a nfsv3 server goes down, the dd
> that 
> is running on the NFS mount point, gets an error on any syscall 
> performed on that mount point, say a write () to a file on that
> mount.
> 
> I've tried setting the timeo and retrans options at mount but that
> does 
> not seem to work in this case. The how-to on linux-nfs site confirms 
> that the nfs client just waits for the server to come back up after 
> retrans number of requests.
> 
> Is there a way to have the app receive an EIO or any other error on
> TCP 
> disconnect?
> 
> Thanks
> -Shehjar
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       reply	other threads:[~2010-06-08 12:10 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <5462028.721275998477790.JavaMail.javamailuser@localhost>
2010-06-08 12:02 ` Christopher Hawkins [this message]
2010-06-08 11:36 Returning error to app on TCP disconnect Shehjar Tikoo

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