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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Now this is a question to which I would like to know the answer also. I
> have asked the same question in -questions but haven't received an answer
> yet.

I think the essential problem is that our error recovery in NFS is
somewhat less than robust.  There have been a number of problems
reported (and Davidg and John have the latest crashdumps to work with)
but I believe our principle difficulty is a lack of NFS gurus! :-(

					Jordan