From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 20 9:29:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B1A37B405 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:29:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.134.204.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.134.204]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA14975; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B585C76.696F1E2A@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:29:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Ian Dowse , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default retry behaviour for mount_nfs References: <20010719181731.O50024-100000@wonky.feral.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message