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Re: attach and hard vs. soft NFS mounts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jan 10 21:12:17 2000

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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
cc: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:01:59 EST."
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:12:09 EST


I think the reason that we went with soft is that we didn't want the
whole athena environment to hang when a single NFS server went down.
Personally, I wouldn't want my machine to hang when I tried to access
bitbucket, if it was down.

	Jonathon


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