Olga Kornievskaia wrote: [good stuff snipped] >Upstream kernel. But I'm arguing that there shouldn't be a need to >specify a dataserver_timeo because it shouldn't timeout at all just >like MDS operations. If/when the server is providing mirrored DSs, I've found this timeout useful in the FreeBSD client since it allows the client to detect a DS failure. It can then report the failure to the MDS via LayoutReturn (or another one on NFSv4.2 which I can't remember the name of since I haven't done 4.2;-). For non-mirrored DSs, the only thing I can think of (I've never seen this) would be some sort of network partitioning such that the client can't reach the DS but can reach the MDS. I have no idea if this is relevant to Linux, but thought I'd mention it, just in case. [more stuff snipped] rick -- 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
