From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 20 9:32:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB55E37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:32:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (mjacob@beppo [192.67.166.79]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6KGWFS83906; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:32:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Terry Lambert Cc: Ian Dowse , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default retry behaviour for mount_nfs In-Reply-To: <3B585C76.696F1E2A@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > 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. > > I agree; people at work have bitched about this. We have a > FreeBSD NFS server that's flakey. > > The other thing is that it appears to break amd behaviour. > > (I couldn't tell which of the two questions he was voting > in favor of, either, since there is one before the "or" and > one after). That's why I submitted a followup after Ian poked me. It's funny- I tend to think of myself as being totally transparent. Why should I need to explain what I meant then? :-) -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message