On 04/25/2012 04:31 PM, Chuck Lever wrote: > Hi- > > On Apr 25, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Steve Dickson wrote: > >> 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. > > Just curious... why wouldn't we want to do this for foreground mounts as well? I had a similar thought but I was worried that it would change the current behavior that people are depending on... Giving the option of putting the mount in back ground to wait I thought was a good compromise... steved. -- 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
