When mounting a remote NFS server share with soft,timeo=5,retrans=4,vers=3,sync whenever the NFS server goes down, the client retries 9 times, the first retrans being sent at 0.2s, the second one at 0.4s, the third at 0.8s and so on up to 9 retrans.<br />
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If setting the timeo to 30 and retrans to 4, the first retrans is sent at 0.4s, the second at 0.8s, 3rd at 1.6s, up to 9 retrans.<br />
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The test case is done with the client reading (1 single dd thread) continuously a large file from the NFS server until it exits with IO error.
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