At 03:28 PM 4/4/2008, Chuck Lever wrote: >It could be waiting for the remote to come up. In which case, a few >retries after ECONNREFUSED is useful, even preferred. If the remote rpcbind is coming up, then there's no need to deregister. I would certainly not advocate bailing the registration of course! >I'm going to try prototyping a new RPC_CLNT_ flag. Sure what the heck. If the RPC client needs to serve all upper layers then a new behavior makes sense. I fondly recall Rick Macklem's "spongy" mounts, in-between hard and soft, that retried nonidempotent ops harder than others. Since you're exploring something on the other side of soft, may I suggest "squishy"? :-) Tom. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
