On 01/26/2012 09:56 AM, Srinivas KANDAGATLA wrote: > 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. > I agree. Specially if there is no "succession root-mount" setup then user can specify a very large count. Is there some delay between retries. So not to burn 100% power? > Thanks, > srini Thanks Boaz > -- > 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 -- 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
