[626] in Athena Bugs
VAX 6.0C: df...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert S. French)
Wed Aug 24 20:40:26 1988
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 88 20:38:44 EDT
From: "Robert S. French" <rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I think the problem is with attach hard-mounting filesystems. If one
of the file servers happens to be down, you lose BIG TIME until it
comes back up (df freezes while the kernel keeps timing out). I
suggest we seriously reconsider when filesystems should be hardmounted
and when they should be softmounted. Hard mounting is screwing too
many people over when machines go down.
Rob
