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Re: attach and hard vs. soft NFS mounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon Jan 10 17:02:17 2000
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To: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:51:09 EST."
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:01:59 -0500
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> Specifically, Solaris and other docs on NFS say not to use a soft
> mount for read-write
A soft mount is bad even for some read-only cases. An example is running
a program from an NFS server -- on a direct paging system, a read error on
the binary will cause the program to die.
Bob
