From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 21 14:41:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01546 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:41:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.alcatel.com.au (gatekeeper.alcatel.com.au [203.17.66.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA01082 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:39:16 GMT (envelope-from Peter.Jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: from mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au ([139.188.23.1]) by gatekeeper.alcatel.com.au (PMDF V5.1-7 #U2695) with ESMTP id <01IW5UIR4M7K000ED5@gatekeeper.alcatel.com.au> for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 07:38:32 +1000 Received: from cbd.alcatel.com.au by cim.alcatel.com.au (PMDF V5.1-10 #U2695) with ESMTP id <01IW5UIIOKG0DDYZMB@cim.alcatel.com.au> for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 07:38:20 +1000 Received: from gsms01.alcatel.com.au by cbd.alcatel.com.au (PMDF V5.1-7 #U2695) with ESMTP id <01IW5UIMOJ6OAZTU3Y@cbd.alcatel.com.au> for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 07:38:26 +1100 Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsms01.alcatel.com.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) id HAA15469 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 07:38:24 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 07:38:24 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Jeremy Subject: NFS mount types (was Re: make buildworld over NFS) To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <199804212138.HAA15469@gsms01.alcatel.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 23:33:44 +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > soft mounts are allowed to return errors >after a certain number of timeouts. So your programs will fail when >the server goes down or temporarily is hard to reach. It's hard to see how soft NFS semantics differ from having a disk die underneath you. Given the uptimes possible with decent OS's (eg FreeBSD), and the painfullness of getting around hard NFS semantics when a server does go away, I think soft mounts are probably better for most purposes. > So, in theory, the writes will complete when the >server comes back up, even if it is next year. Of course, if the server is never coming back, you'll need to reboot the client to recover - I've gotten caught a couple of times testing with temporary machines. Peter -- Peter Jeremy (VK2PJ) peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Alcatel Australia Limited 41 Mandible St Phone: +61 2 9690 5019 ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 Fax: +61 2 9690 5247 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message