[SWLUG] nfs --soft option

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:30:01AM +0100 or thereabouts, bascule wrote:
> is the 'soft' option what i need to mount an nfs volume when both the 
> mounting or serving machine may be turned off without having to manually 
> unmount etc. ?

I've had trouble when mounting an nfs filesystem because the server
was being annoying and kept dying. I was only ever reading data,
not writing it (it was the ogg-server). The options I was told
to play about with were soft and intr, and I seem to recall 
something about having to be careful when mounting read-only. 
Since I never wrote to that filesystem anyway, it was less of an 
issue, so I forget -why- I had to be careful :) 

Telsa