Jim Rees wrote: > 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. > > This has already been fixed in commit 43717c7d, "NFS: Retry mounting > NFSROOT". The retry count is fixed at 5. Is there some reason you think > the retry count should be configurable? > Thanks for pointing to the fixed commit. I did realize soon after sending this patch to mailing list. Only reason I can think of having retry count configurable is, an arbitrary number(3 or 5 or n) of retry count may not be enough to address all the use cases. So, I think the user should be given a chance to configure the retry count if he wish to, either timeout quickly and try the succession root-mount or If he wish to keep kernel trying very harder till he gets the NFS root mount successful. Thanks, srini -- 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
