On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> >
> > So the question is - should I keep the new behaviour that is probably
> > a better default and will catch out fewer new users but may surprise
> > some experienced users, or should I revert to the traditional
> > default where `-R1' or `-b' are required to avoid boot-time hangs?
> >
>
> Sorry- let me be clearer:
>
> FWIW, I vote that we rever to the traditional default and require -R1 or -b to
> avoid boot time hangs. The standard behaviour for most NFS implementations
> that I'm aware of would do this.
I was playing with a RedHat 7.1 box (kernel 2.4.x) and it continued along
after it failed to mount and NFS server.
I personally think the non-blocking behavior is better.
-gordon
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