[Gllug] NFS problem

[Kostas Georgiou]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 05:27:31PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:

> Hi
> 
> John Edwards wrote:
> > I've never used TRU64, but have you tried to mount this without the
> > "soft" option?
> > 
> > In the past that has caused problems on some Linux machines (long time
> > ago, can't remember the details).
> 
> While soft and intr are helpful for being able to interrupt tasks that
> are blocking on a failed NFS server, they are very much unhelpful if
> your NFS server isn't responding in a timely fashion because the client
> will fail them and your userspace apps see their files go away.

You also risk data corruption with a soft mount
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_e4

Kostas
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