Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Even slower NFS mounting with 2.4.0 | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:33:09 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Hmm... How should we respond to that sort of thing? In principle the > NFS layer supposes that if we have a hard mount, then unreachable > ports etc are a temporary problem, and we should wait them out. (In > fact, I've made an RPC 'ping' routine that improves on that behaviour > but which unfortunately didn't make it into 2.4.0.)
That makes reasonable sense once mounted. I think mount needs to be polite until it decides the mount is made
> If we want to check that the port is reachable at the moment when we > mount, I think we should concentrate on making 'mount' more > intelligent. Perhaps have it RPC-ping the various ports (including the > local portmapper when we specify locking)?
That would work.
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