Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 21:30:17 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, toasty@home.dragondata.com Subject: Re: NFS discovery Message-ID: <35730F59.510D55FB@tdx.co.uk> References: <199806011751.NAA29921@xxx.video-collage.com>
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Mikhail Teterin wrote: > NFS hung ups are a strange topic, in my experience. People agree > that they are "bad", but one is not supposed to complain about > them... I remember having a long conversation with a friend a few years back (can I get any more vague?) - Where he was praising NFS's ability to crash - as it assures that say your running a program on a remote system, it will either run to completion - or hang if the server dies... This I presume works on the assumption that it helps somehow to have a client that's 'hung' in mid-air (i.e. at least you know if failed) rather than risking any corruption that might have been caused by the server disappearing for a while... I think you can change this behaviour - have a look at the man page for 'mount_nfs' - in particular things like the '-i' option & 'soft' mounting etc... Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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