Package: mount Version: 2.12-10 Severity: normal
mount -t nfs -o retry=1 unreachable-address:/blah /mnt will either timeout always after 10s on an RPC timeout or not at all. If the server refuses RPC connections it will timeout immediately. If the man page of nfs(5) referenced from the man mountpage is to be believed it is supposed to timeout after retry=X minutes. This obviously does not work (this is different from the mounted fs timeout handling which is done by the timeo and retransmit options). Considering that many people rely on the current broken behaviour it may be a good idea to keep it if the option is not specified. Also, it may be in fact a kernel bug because looking at the source mount just fills the relevant bit of the mount structure and passes it to the kernel. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages mount depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
