On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:11:34AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: > Hi Vincent- > > > > On Dec 14, 2018, at 9:50 PM, Vincent McIntyre <vincent.mcintyre@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've been trying to figure out why the nfs.man manpage states > > > > .BI timeo= n > > The time in deciseconds (tenths of a second) the NFS client waits for a > > response before it retries an NFS request. > > > > Can someone who actually understands NFS enlighten me? > > Here's where I'm up to. > > > > I looked in the upstream git. > > The 'deciseconds' has been in there since the start of git history > > (2007, commit id 16db99b56a532bf56fa27618a6ef30763cd9006f). > > But is it (still) correct? > > > > Unfortunately I can't see a direct use of the 'timeo' field > > of the NFS data structure so the answer is not easily found. > > The "timeo" mount option is not used by the mount.nfs command. > It is passed to the kernel, which treats it just as the man > page says. Thanks Chuck. I did eventually figure this out but forgot to follow up here. > The code you excerpt below implements the "retry" mount option. > doh. Thanks for pointing that out. Kind regards Vince
