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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:38:59 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>,
	cool46 cool46 <coolunixer@hotmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: how to kill nfs-blocked process
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In the last episode (Oct 11), Roman Neuhauser said:
> 
>      -R      Set the mount retry count to the specified value.  The
>              default is a retry count of zero, which means to keep
>              retrying forever.  There is a 60 second delay between each
>              attempt.
> 
>     this is probably what you're missing. works for me.
> 
>      -s      A soft mount, which implies that file system calls will fail
>              after Retry round trip timeout intervals.

I never noticed this, but this feels wrong :)

What's the difference between no options and just -s, then?  Or the
difference between -R10 and -R10 -s ?  It seems like -s is a no-op.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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