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>
> No, I haven't gone mad and decided to make all NFS mounts soft
> to "fix" all NFS problems :-)
>

I once asked Bob Lyon (who is still at Legato) about what he thought needed to
happen to 'fix' NFS (after all, it was he and Rusty Sandberg who did the
initial work on all this).

His response was, "Fix? You mean as in 'fixing' a cat?"

-matt



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