Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 23:13:08 +0100 (BST) From: Scot Elliott <scot@online.barbour-index.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS mount types (was Re: make buildworld over NFS) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980421231004.13869A-100000@tweetie.online.barbour-index.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199804212138.HAA15469@gsms01.alcatel.com.au>
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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >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. > I use NFS for one or two home directories (via the Auto-Mounter). I've had some big problems even with soft mounts when the NFS server dies (it usually seems to die on a Friday afternoon for some reason - hense being down the whole weekend)... and then my login machine fills up with CRON jobs for my login users. Nightmare. I don't think I've ever recover without rebooting the client when then server comes back up. Scot. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scot Elliott (scot@poptart.org) | Work: +44 (0)171 7046777 PGP fingerprint: FCAE9ED3A234FEB59F8C7F9DDD112D | Home: +44 (0)181 8961019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key available by finger at: finger scot@poptart.org or at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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