Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:38:32 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, ps@freebsd.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, mohans@freebsd.orgc Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfsclient nfs_bio.c nfs_vnops.c Message-ID: <20060418133832.GF35896@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200604180528.k3I5SfTo059921@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200604180528.k3I5SfTo059921@repoman.freebsd.org>
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* Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> [060417 23:39] wrote: > delphij 2006-04-18 05:28:41 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_6) > sys/nfsclient nfs_bio.c nfs_vnops.c > Log: > MFC src/sys/nfsclient/nfs_bio.c,v 1.154 > and src/sys/nfsclient/nfs_vnops.c,v 1.262 (by ps@): > ... > - Treat ETIMEDOUT as a "recoverable" error, causing the buffer > to be re-dirtied. ETIMEDOUT can occur on soft mounts, when > the number of retries are exceeded, and we don't want data loss > in that case. Actually that's the documented behavior, if the mount times out, one will lose data. What does this do? Leave the buffer dirty/held until forcefully unmounted? I guess that sort of makes sense, can someone explain a bit better? -- - Alfred Perlstein
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