[2032] in Release_7.7_team
Re: attach and hard vs. soft NFS mounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Mon Jan 10 21:46:09 2000
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>, Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>,
release-team@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 10 Jan 2000 21:45:58 -0500
In-Reply-To: Jonathon Weiss's message of "Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:12:09 EST"
Message-ID: <u1hvh51pbq1.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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.
The solution to that is to use -hard -intr.
