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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:46:41 +0000
From: Srinivas KANDAGATLA <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
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To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.3.0-rc1 1/2] do_mounts: Change the nfs-mount retry min
 max delays.
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Jim Rees wrote:
> I hate timeouts.  Isn't there some way to wait until the interface is up
> before attempting the mount?
>   
I think mount waits till ipconfig is finished, however the actual link
may not be up at that time(in cases of static ip's).
Waiting for link to become UP can have a adverse side-effect of waiting
forever in cases where cable isn't connected or n/w is not reachable....

retry is the only best option at this moment...