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-rw-r--r--utils/mount/nfs.man14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/utils/mount/nfs.man b/utils/mount/nfs.man
index 7cad556..cc6e992 100644
--- a/utils/mount/nfs.man
+++ b/utils/mount/nfs.man
@@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ up to a maximum timeout length of 60 seconds.
The number of times the NFS client retries a request before
it attempts further recovery action. If the
.B retrans
-option is not specified, the NFS client tries each request
-three times.
+option is not specified, the NFS client tries each UDP request
+three times and each TCP request twice.
.IP
The NFS client generates a "server not responding" message
after
@@ -391,6 +391,16 @@ is 2 minutes, and the default value for background mounts is 10000 minutes
If a value of zero is specified, the
.BR mount (8)
command exits immediately after the first failure.
+.IP
+Note that this only affects how many retries are made and doesn't
+affect the delay caused by each retry. For UDP each retry takes the
+time determined by the
+.BR timeo
+and
+.BR retrans
+options, which by default will be about 7 seconds. For TCP the
+default is 3 minutes, but system TCP connection timeouts will
+sometimes limit the timeout of each retransmission to around 2 minutes.
.TP 1.5i
.BI sec= flavors
A colon-separated list of one or more security flavors to use for accessing