[Gllug] Filesystems again :)

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Thu May 16 10:13:05 UTC 2002


I have found that a file system mounted from an NT box using smbfs has
problems if/when the NT box dies & comes back again ... the share isn't
remounted - this is one thing that NFS does. Are you saying that it
remounts cleanly for you ?
Admittedly the last time that I tried was a year ago.

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:56:36AM +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> samba doesn't hang if you disconnect a machine :)
> 
> / d
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <tet at accucard.com>
> To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Filesystems again :)
> 
> 
> >
> > >More pondering on how to do high availability storage :)
> > >
> > >Has anyone played with InterMezzo/InterSync
> > >
> > >http://inter-mezzo.org/
> >
> > On a similar note, has anyone come up with a decent solution to networked
> > filesystems for Unix laptops? NFS is hopelessly inadequate, as the machine
> > tends to hang as soon as you disconnect from the server.
> >
> > I've been vaguely looking at Coda, but haven't got very far yet. Equally,
> > InterMezzo is another option, and I'd love to hear from anyone that's
> > succesfully solved this problem.
> >
> > Tet
> >
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