The point of background mounts is to have the mount retried if the mount fails. This patch allows the v2/v3 background mount to proceed in the case when the server is down by not making EOPNOTSUPP a permanent error. Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx> --- utils/mount/stropts.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/utils/mount/stropts.c b/utils/mount/stropts.c index d52e21a..e09aa7c 100644 --- a/utils/mount/stropts.c +++ b/utils/mount/stropts.c @@ -911,7 +911,8 @@ static int nfsmount_parent(struct nfsmount_info *mi) if (nfs_try_mount(mi)) return EX_SUCCESS; - if (nfs_is_permanent_error(errno)) { + /* retry background mounts when the server is not up */ + if (nfs_is_permanent_error(errno) && errno != EOPNOTSUPP) { mount_error(mi->spec, mi->node, errno); return EX_FAIL; } @@ -946,7 +947,8 @@ static int nfsmount_child(struct nfsmount_info *mi) if (nfs_try_mount(mi)) return EX_SUCCESS; - if (nfs_is_permanent_error(errno)) + /* retry background mounts when the server is not up */ + if (nfs_is_permanent_error(errno) && errno != EOPNOTSUPP) break; if (time(NULL) > timeout) -- 1.7.7.6 -- 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