Max Matveev wrote: The interval is increased: with timeo=10 (1 sec) the retries will be happening and t+1, t+3, t+6 etc - see my original mail on Jul 7: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg22425.html If that's not a backoff then what is? You're right. Sorry I misunderstood. Re-reading what you wrote I'm not sure it could be made any clearer. Maybe change "timeout is increased" to "timeout interval is increased." But I'd be happy with it as-is. -- 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