Issue

Looking at the "man 5 nfs" page for the retrans option, it states:-

" retrans=n The number of minor timeouts and retransmissions that
must occur before a major timeout occurs. The default
is 3 timeouts. When a major timeout occurs, the file
operation is either aborted or a "server not responding"
message is printed on the console."

A LoB thought they should see retrans=3 when they run, e.g. nfsstat -m, however, instead they see retrans=2. This is seen on both RHEL 5 and 6 hosts although interestingly the RHEL 6 man page has removed that the default setting.