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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)
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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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