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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 1999 08:31:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: soft mounting a file system (nfs)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911080830130.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <rd6d7tlc8bv.fsf@world.std.com>

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On 8 Nov 1999, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 01:30:28 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > 
> > > Ahhhhh, that would be it.  Which man page should I be looking at for
> > > available "fstab" options?  Or are the ones listed in mount_nfs under
> > > 'deprecated' still available through fstab, just not -o <option>?
> > 
> > The mount_nfs manpage and yes.  :-)
> 
> Does that mean my /etc/fstab entry of:
>     toaster-5:/users        /users   	nfs     rw,-s 	
> isn't really doing a soft mount?

No, it probably is, however 'intr' mounts are better imo,
they let you kill programs that hang on dead NFS mounts.

Some people like a combination of soft+intr, that way system
programs eventually get an error instead of piling up on a
dead mountpoint.

-Alfred



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