Boaz Harrosh wrote: On 01/25/2012 04:50 PM, Srinivas KANDAGATLA wrote: > From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxx> > > This patch adds mountretry kernel parameter for nfs root mount. > mount retry indicates the number of times nfs root mount attempts to be > made before giving up. If this option is not specified, the default > value of 3 retries is used. > If the system is set to have root on NFS. And the root is not found what does it do? does it Just bums out with a recovery console? So what better options does it have other then retry for ever. die? I always thought that was inconsistent. With an hard mount NFS will never give up and will retry for ever freezing all IOers until the server came back. Only with root-mount it gives up. Please explain what is the benefits of giving up at all. Can a machine be at all usable without it's root? Doesn't grub have some fallback logic in case the given kernel/root fails? Also, don't you want some indication that it's not working other than just a blank screen? -- 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
