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Re: Strange behaviour with NFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sat Aug 5 02:40:32 1995
To: Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: 3 Aug 1995 21:59:38 GMT
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0saRQM-000KEYC@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> from "Martin Schulze" at Jul 24, 95 07:36:00 pm
> It's funny! The kernel notices that the nfs-server is unreachable,
> printk's his messages ("tapiola kernel: NFS max timeout reached on
> finlandia") but then? It tries again, several times. Somewhen it
> stops, dunno why.
It will try forever,
>
> I would recommend to return some common error code to let user
> programs correctly abort.
I would recommend reading some NFS documentation 8). You want to set the
soft option (return EIO on a timeout) and possibly adjust the timeouts to
suit.
Alan
