nbdkit-retry-request-filter(1)

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version 1.48.1 · 13 versions
, in fedora 44

💅 nbdkit-retry-request-filter(1) — the manual page bestie

okay so this is the man page for nbdkit-retry-request-filter, which lives in section 1 of the nbdkit manual. pull up a chair, we're doing this. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

nbdkit-retry-request-filter — retry single requests on error 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nbdkit --filter=retry-request PLUGIN
                  [retry-request-retries=N] [retry-request-delay=N]
                  [retry-request-open=false]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

"nbdkit-retry-request-filter" is a filter for nbdkit that transparently retries single requests if they fail. no cap. 🔥

it's giving extremely useful energy for plugins that are not completely reliable, or that have random behaviour. for example, nbdkit-curl-plugin(1) might act like that if you point it at a load balancer which sometimes redirects you to a web server that is just… not responsive. 💀

an alternative filter with different trade-offs is nbdkit-retry-filter(1). but heads up bestie, that one is more heavyweight, because it always reopens the whole plugin connection on failure. so. you know. different strokes. 🎀

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

  • retry-request-retries=N — the number of times any single request will be retried before we give up and fail the operation. the default is 2. 🍓
  • retry-request-delay=DELAY — the time to wait before retrying. the default is 2 seconds. any format supported by nbdkit_parse_delay(3) is allowed here. go wild. 💜
  • retry-request-open=false — if set to false, do not retry opening the plugin. the default is to treat plugin open in the same way as other requests. 👑

🌈 FILES 🌈

  • $filterdir/nbdkit-retry-request-filter.so — the filter. ✨
    • use "nbdkit --dump-config" to find the location of $filterdir. iykyk.

⭐ VERSION ⭐

"nbdkit-retry-filter" first appeared in nbdkit 1.30. 💅

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

nbdkit(1), nbdkit-filter(3), nbdkit-readahead-filter(1), nbdkit-retry-filter(1), nbdkit_parse_delay(3).

go read them. the whole family is iconic. 👑

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Richard W.M. Jones 🧚

Copyright Red Hat

💀 LICENSE 💀

redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  • redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 📜
  • redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 📋
  • neither the name of Red Hat nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 🚫
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okay that's the whole page, you made it, so proud of you bestie. 🥹 this was nbdkit version 1.48.1, dated 2026-08-29, and the manual page is nbdkit-retry-request-filter(1). mwah. 💋✨

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