From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: Status of mount.nfs Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:16:48 -0400 Message-ID: <46AA1A70.5010705@RedHat.com> References: <20070708191640.GA13962@uio.no> <18065.43199.104020.412029@notabene.brown> <20070715083114.GB4158@uio.no> <18074.50730.591965.39211@notabene.brown> <20070716092047.GA10353@uio.no> <18075.17719.855332.259470@notabene.brown> <20070722191733.GA31501@uio.no> <46A52816.6050500@oracle.com> <20070724172451.GA14026@uio.no> <46A7A5F8.4040204@oracle.com> <46A897CD.50201@RedHat.com> <46A96032.7080503@oracle.com> <46AA089E.50503@RedHat.com> <1185551769.6586.28.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IESUr-0006Ji-VN for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:16:58 -0700 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1IESUv-0005rz-1p for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:17:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1185551769.6586.28.camel@localhost> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:00 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > >> That was the main reason for the ping. Since neither portmapper or >> rpcbind ping their services before they hand out the ports, there >> is really no way of telling where the server is up? So to avoid >> the hang, we ping them... Sure its costly network wise, but >> hanging during a boot because a server is not responding is >> a bit more costly... imho... > > Right, but recent kernels both can and will ping the NFS service for > you. Good point... but that's just as costly (wrt network traffic) as the mount command doing the pinging... plus the status of the remote mountd is also needed. steved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs