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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:18:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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Subject: Re: Default retry behaviour for mount_nfs
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>
> So the question is - should I keep the new behaviour that is probably
> a better default and will catch out fewer new users but may surprise
> some experienced users, or should I revert to the traditional
> default where `-R1' or `-b' are required to avoid boot-time hangs?
>

Sorry- let me be clearer:

FWIW, I vote that we rever to the traditional default and require -R1 or -b to
avoid boot time hangs. The standard behaviour for most NFS implementations
that I'm aware of would do this.

-matt



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