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Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:57:53 +1000
From: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com>
To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, steved@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update nfs(5) manpage - timeo for NFS/TCP
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On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 08:04:01 -0400, Jim Rees wrote:

 rees> I'm not crazy about the wording.  How about

 rees>   For NFS over TCP the default timeo is 600 (60 seconds).  The NFS client
 rees>   performs linear backoff.  After each retransmission the timeout is
 rees>   increased by timeo up to the maximum of 600 seconds.

I'm fine with this except the third sentence is the explanation of
"linear backoff" - I'd rather keep them together, i.e.:

	The NFS client performs linear backoff: after each
	retransmission the timeout is increased by timeo up to the
	maximum of 600 seconds.

 rees> Finally, I would call them "deciseconds".

Secquipedalians'r'us.

 rees> timeo: The time in deciseconds (tenths of a second) ...
Will do.

Anything else before I send v2?

max