Re: NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Jon Haugsand wrote:
> * Alvin Oga
> > add soft to your mount options, so that the sytem can keep going
> > vs using hard mount which waits for the remotefs to come back online
> > - i rather use/risk soft mounts than to sit and wait
> > in a hung state ... the pc is useless in that state anyway
> >
> > - and over the years, i've not seen any corruptions of files
> > due to soft mounts ... lots of other problems though
> > that is way worst than soft vs hard mount issues
> >
> > - and i only do soft mounts for my data, where i know its all
> > saved and duplicated n-times elsewhere
>
> Thanks. Does this apply to smbfs too?
yup ... to anything you mount
c ya
alvin
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