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Subject: Re: Optimal NFS mount options to safely allow interrupts and timeouts on newer kernels
To: "Trond Myklebust" <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
        "Brian Hawley" <bhawley@luminex.com>
Cc: "Andrew Martin" <amartin@xes-inc.com>, "Jim Rees" <rees@umich.edu>,
        "Brown Neil" <neilb@suse.de>, linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
From: "Brian Hawley" <bhawley@luminex.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 19:33:05 +0000
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