On 21/05/12 16:09, Einav Cohen wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Doron Fediuck" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 3:59:07 PM
>>
>> On 21/05/12 14:49, Einav Cohen wrote:
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Geert Jansen" <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 2:44:09 PM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05/21/2012 12:44 PM, Einav Cohen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> i was wondering why you have pulled out retrans and timeout? Are
>>>>>> these
>>>>>> the most important ones?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry - not sure I got you. Can you please clarify your question?
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I meant, why do retrans and timeout have their own input
>>>> boxes,
>>>> while the other options need to be set via the 'mount options'
>>>> box.
>>>> There's quite a few other important nfs options like tcp, rsize,
>>>> wsize,
>>>> and possibly nointr and hard. I was wondering why we took these
>>>> specific
>>>> two and gave them their separate boxes but not the other ones.
>>>
>>> Retrans and Timeout got separate boxes since they have separate
>>> parameters in the api (GUI was determined by api).
>>> Ayal - any reason for these specific two values having parameters
>>> of their own?
>>>
>> Reading some of the thread and reviews I can say that these 3 options
>> (version, retrans and timeo)
>> are advanced NFS features, which in most cases should not be used at
>> all. VDSM has very good defaults,
>> and in some specific cases there's a need to change these defaults.
>> Only in such case these options
>> should be modified.
> 
> No question that vdsm has very good defaults and only rarely should they be 
> modified.
> However, why not change everything via "mount options"? why do we have 
> separate parameters specifically for "retrans" and "timeout" (in addition to 
> "mount options")? As Geert said, we have also tcp, rsize, wsize, etc. So why 
> "retrans" and "timeout" got parameters of their own and the others didn't 
> (i.e. if there is a need to change tcp, rsize, wsize, the only way to do it 
> is via the generic "mount options")?
I think it has to do w/ the vdsm implementation of it, maybe also connection 
management in the backend.
But I think Livnat may have some better understandings of that.
 
> 
>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Geert
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